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It was Goyo who called my attention about a very interesting daily event when he said to me: “Have you...

Just some days ago the Emily Morris Academy published an article sustaining that Cuba is not facing a failure, but...

President Raúl Castro said so himself on December 2015, and later during the second session of the National Assembly in...

We economists once again had the luck and the privilege of having in Cuba U.S. economist, professor in diverse universities...

Is Donald Trump good or bad for Cuba? This is the question of the moment, for which it seems no...

He actually didn’t know what all that meant. The uniform, the beret, the lantern, all that seemed as big as...

“They work. They resemble fine silversmiths in everything they do, in wood, in mother-of-pearl, as gunsmiths, in textiles, in painting,...

Just a few weeks ago I met the ambassador of Japan to Cuba, Masaru Watanabe. We wanted to talk to...

Three apparently indirectly related news items motivated these lines. Not too long ago the magazine Nature, one of the most...

Some historians say that sugar entered Cuba by Puerto Güincho, in Nuevitas, Camagüey, coming from the neighbor island Hispaniola. It...

The news that the intricate village of Motembo, in Villa Clara, could rise up out of anonymity and play a...

Lately our mailboxes are receiving messages of support, concern and suggestions sent by readers and followers of OnCuba from all...

Having a development plan that runs until 2030 does not mean that in 2030 Cuba will be a developed country....

If we could calculate how much, in terms of lost revenue, services no longer lent, and interrupted labour, we would...

Antuan is a very good friend, a successful and well-known man in business and politics, he seems to have it...

Cuba did not arrive at Obama’s presidential visit with its head bowed and hands supplicating. It arrived, that’s correct, with...

Today I’d like to do one of those ‘close your eyes and imagine’ exercises. I’d like to think of some...

After growing 4{bb302c39ef77509544c7d3ea992cb94710211e0fa5985a4a3940706d9b0380de} in 2015, after 1{bb302c39ef77509544c7d3ea992cb94710211e0fa5985a4a3940706d9b0380de} in 2014, the Cuban economy is projected to grow 2{bb302c39ef77509544c7d3ea992cb94710211e0fa5985a4a3940706d9b0380de} in 2016. Reverting...

It’s already been a year since the so-called D17, a transcendental day in which the governments of the United States...

It’s the third time in 17 years that a pope has visited Cuba. Like the previous trips, this most recent...

By the time you get this edition of OnCuba, Cuba and the United States will have their respective embassies open....

His knees hurt very much; they were like two old rusty hinges. He could hardly see. His tears became condensed...

A very young Cuban artist approached me recently to say hi, and he used the opportunity to make a comment...

It was 6:58 a.m. when the phone rang. I was meditating and I jumped. I never put the phone on...

I don’t remember the date very well; it must have been wintertime in the late 1970s or early 80s. We...