Cutting down on bureaucracy’s interference in the entire self-employment project approval process is essential. Not making it depend on the...

In the midst of so much usurpation of critical thinking, it is worth asking where the national interest really lies.

The publication in recent days of a list of “activities where self-employment is not allowed” has generated a feverish exchange...

This more than fateful 2021 brings, instead, some reasons for rejoicing for lovers of the so-called science game: chess. In...

In a recent article on U.S. foreign policy doctrine, one commentator claims that it should move from America First to...

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...

That’s it. 2021 has arrived. We want to believe that it will be a year less sinister than the previous...

Will we ever forget 2020? Today most may not believe it possible, but I’m not so sure. Human beings are...

I’m curious that none of the observers of recent Cuban politics, not even my jurist friends, have commented on the...

Leonardo Padura, the most published, most read, most translated and most controversial Cuban writer today, is ending this fateful 2020...

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...

Several years ago, I was invited by television director and documentary maker Juan Pin Vilar to a program on the...