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Reinaldo Arenas: the ghost that appears
On December 7, it was 30 years since the death in New York of Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas (1943-1990). It...
This is not a profile, it’s just about Gay Talese in Havana*
If the journalism students of my generation had been told that Gay Talese, the author of Honor Thy Father (1971)...
Human rights: guide for dialogue in Cuba (I)
The second Whereas of the Preamble to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights announces “…the advent of a world in...
Dialogue in this Cuba?
November has been a key month for Cuban politics. In more ways than one, unheard of. A quick glance at...
The Island of Treasures
I came to the Isla de la Juventud for the first time on a plane, with my mother. We were...
Last night’s Cuba*
Yesterday, November 27, was a normal day and a long night. Every day is more or less the same for...
Being able is not wanting, wanting is not being able
Anything that jeopardizes the aspiration to extend the Democratic presence in the White House for four years after Biden, I...
Strategy and development
Eleven principles, sixteen key areas and more than 370 measures is, without a doubt, an enormous effort in favor of...
Democracy has to be an obsession
The presidential elections in the United States of America don’t decide only who will be the head of state of...
Foreign Direct Investment and organization
The past week has been one of the most interesting in recent times, for everyone, but especially for economists. The...
The rage epidemic, therapy to contain it
I met a guy who sounded like something out of a novel by Chuck Palahniuk, the American writer I promised...
Public Health Law and rights of women and the LGTBIQ+ community
There are rights beyond regulations. Social practices and relationships found and ensure rights; they give them de facto existence. The...
A refuge for the best of the Cuban nation
I started university around 1953.1 I had no ties with anyone, with any organization, I had no antecedents. I was...
The food we need
The production, distribution, marketing and sale of agricultural products monopolizes the attention of almost everyone in our country. Of course...
A Cuban-Caribbean vision of the world
Manuel R. Moreno Fraginals is a fascinating historian, and it would be very difficult to be so without also having...
The Cuban port of “Con mis hijos no te metas”
Cuba modified its Constitution in early 2019. In December of that same year, the National Assembly of People’s Power announced...
How much can we resist?
The 2020 pandemic doesn’t end. Since March we’ve been locked up in Cuba. An island is already a water and...
Our other war
A good friend sent me a few weeks ago a speech that has circulated mainly on social networks and is...
And then there’s cheese
For many years, when you left Havana and headed west or east, or when you came back from the west...
Of empty stands and trucks that don’t come in
The images of the agricultural market in my town, Santiago de las Vegas, this Sunday, August 23, 2020 have nothing...
Exports, once again
Help us keep OnCuba alive There is much good news despite COVID-19 and the return of the capital to the...
No one will be left unprotected? (II)
In part one of this text, I insisted that the discussion on social policy should be synchronous with that of...
No one will be left unprotected? (I)
In 1990, during the closing of the 5th Congress of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC), then President Fidel Castro...
Should Cuba promote introduction of genetically modified organisms in agriculture?
Help us keep OnCuba alive A few days ago, the national press published the news of the approval in Cuba...
“The glory is theirs and nobody can take it away”
Statues, monuments and the memory of racism in Cuba
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