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As we have said before, human rights can be a legal and ethical reference both for the functioning of the...

Although it seemed that the list of activities not allowed as a modality of self-employment in Cuba looked faraway like...

“It is assumed that there are no big losers,” “there can’t be unprotected people,” “no one will be left unprotected,”...

Article 20 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights establishes that: “1. Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful...

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a little-known document in Cuba. I have not found it in tabloids sold...

Once I wrote a story in which Martí (I am referring to José Martí, the National Hero, sorry if I...

The devaluation of the official exchange rate of the Cuban peso against the dollar, the wage reform and the administration...

The art of building consensus is, to a large extent, dealing with dissent.

We are political animals, according to Aristotle and a friend of mine. The Greek based his argument on the fact...

If anyone ever doubted the telluric nature of the exchange rate and monetary unification, this week, the first after the...

In February 1870, in the Isabel II Park, now Havana’s Parque Central, American Isaac Greenwald was assassinated, so it must...

Four days ago, during the sixth regular session of the National Assembly of People’s Power, in its ninth legislature, Deputy...

On December 7, it was 30 years since the death in New York of Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas (1943-1990). It...

If the journalism students of my generation had been told that Gay Talese, the author of Honor Thy Father (1971)...

The second Whereas of the Preamble to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights announces “…the advent of a world in...

November has been a key month for Cuban politics. In more ways than one, unheard of. A quick glance at...

I came to the Isla de la Juventud for the first time on a plane, with my mother. We were...

Yesterday, November 27, was a normal day and a long night. Every day is more or less the same for...

Anything that jeopardizes the aspiration to extend the Democratic presence in the White House for four years after Biden, I...

Eleven principles, sixteen key areas and more than 370 measures is, without a doubt, an enormous effort in favor of...

The presidential elections in the United States of America don’t decide only who will be the head of state of...

The past week has been one of the most interesting in recent times, for everyone, but especially for economists. The...

I met a guy who sounded like something out of a novel by Chuck Palahniuk, the American writer I promised...

There are rights beyond regulations. Social practices and relationships found and ensure rights; they give them de facto existence. The...

I started university around 1953.1 I had no ties with anyone, with any organization, I had no antecedents. I was...