Columns

With his chaotic communications, President Trump conveys that he alone is in charge, and maybe that is his intention.

In March 1990 Fidel Castro gave the closing speech of the 5th Congress of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC)....

I reread the comments to an article that appeared in Cubadebate and I remembered that magnificent song by Pablo Milanés,...

The activation of Title III of the Helms-Burton law will unleash lawsuits against investors in Cuba, potentially including U.S. companies.

In a previous work I tried to expose how complex it was to achieve good economic policy designs, with the...

The last few weeks have brought to the forefront of Cuban public opinion two acts of extreme violence: the murders...

Havana experienced a rare march on the first Sunday of April. I don’t remember a "self-convened" pilgrimage of such scales,...

Americans should ask: Is it right, and is it in our national interest to “strangle” Cuba’s economy?

My attraction for books not registered in the inventory of edifying titles for Cuban youth turned into a disagreement with...

I have written this column driven by the discussions around the papers presented at the Annual Seminar of the Center...

Changing the vision that has made us prey to disunions is something we can achieve among Cubans. It would be...

Homo sapiens had achieved it. After much observation, and maybe some luck, they had not only managed to produce fire:...

An old recourse to express the strangeness in a contradictory situation is the phrase: "The list and the money don’t...

In Cuba, 2018 went by between tests of Internet connection and meetings to consult the draft constitution. If the years...

When Yuli is premiered in Cuba it will be a resounding success. The movie theater will be full of all...

On December 31, we didn’t have water in the building. Only cumbia from the Colombian neighbors’ loudspeakers, cumbias and ballenatos...

As expected, 2019 will be a very tense year in terms of the economy and will also be difficult in...

Last August, Ernesto Soberón, director of Consular Affairs and Cuban Residents Abroad (DACRE) of the Cuban Foreign Ministry answered the...

At the beginning only 12 chairs were allowed in what according to popular saying was called a “paladar,” taking the...

At the beginning 12 chairs were allowed in what according to popular saying was called a “paladar,” taking the name...

It is true that there is a great deal to learn about the economy, not just from China but also...

High risk sports (mountaineering, scuba diving, parachuting, all of them) require very clear, easy to understand rules that transmit simple...

The following story I’m going to tell was given to me by a good friend, who is already retired and...

A feature article, “El papel lo aguanta todo” (Paper Puts Up with Everything), which appeared in the newspaper Invasor about...

Like many of you, I also spent hours in front of the TV set watching Miguel Díaz-Canel’s election as the...