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...

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...

In a well-known poem from 1968, Heberto Padilla describes a man who is asked to successively hand over parts and...

And the names and dates  and our follies will be erased and the light will remain, bróder, the light And...

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...

The production, distribution, marketing and sale of agricultural products monopolizes the attention of almost everyone in our country. Of course...

When I was very young and undocumented, I spent the 1971-1972 academic year with a team from the University of...

Manuel R. Moreno Fraginals is a fascinating historian, and it would be very difficult to be so without also having...