New York, a Cuban woman from the epicenter of the pandemic
My son runs into the room with an irrepressible emotion: Mom, it’s snowing! Come! Come! Snow in New York? In...
Looking for the national mammal. What about swine production in Cuba?
I remember a news item that caught my eye a few years ago. In the press there was talk of...
Cuba: (Feminist) requests to political society and civil society in the face of COVID-19
On December 31, 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) got the first coronavirus alert from Wuhan, China. Since then we...
Cuba: Lessons from this “induced coma” in the economy
The forecasts for the world economy, whether they are the most moderate or cautious, or the most catastrophic, all make...
The constitutional homeland. Céspedes, Guáimaro and democracy in Cuba
In “Elpidio Valdés se casa” (Elpidio Valdés gets married; Juan Padrón, Tulio Raggi and Mario Rivas, 1991) the mambí Colonel...
From the furrow to the table: removing obstacles and obstacle-makers in food production in Cuba
In recent years, Cuba has had to face a group of unforeseen events that could exceed anyone’s imagination. The unfortunate...
Cuba against coronavirus: politics, communication and civil society
Virgilio Piñera would have been surprised to know that that verse of his “the damn circumstance of water everywhere” was...
The pandemic does not discriminate; inequalities do: women cushioning the crisis
With COVID-19, the world is facing two interconnected but not identical realities: it exhibits and sharpens pre-existing inequalities and generates...
Cuban economy in the face of COVID-19
The Cuban economy was already showing a bleak picture before the start of the current epidemic. Productive activity had been...
Lack of foreign exchange in Cuba
The financial situation Cuba has been experiencing is already a structural problem of its economy. There are multiple factors that...
Coronavirus: As in the Titanic, a band keeps on playing
The good sense of man had not been tested, at least globally, since World War II. The coronavirus came to...
Taking care, taking care of oneself, that we be taken care of in times of COVID-19
Caregiving. That is the most recurrent word in these days of COVID-19. The whole world is saying the same thing...
Coronavirus: We’ll survive, but that’s not enough
Humanity will emerge from this pandemic. Previously, pandemics also occurred and humanity survived. It is true that in all of...
In Cuba we don’t have a shield to stave off coronavirus
I’m not a biologist. I’m not an epidemiologist. Neither am I a hysteric or a media terrorist. I’m a Cuban...
Homeland. Passion and democracy of national symbols in Cuba
In 2016 the magazine Revolución y Cultura (RyC) ―then directed by Luisa Campuzano and by an Advisory Council composed of...
Welcome Mr. Day Zero. Will the arrival of monetary unification work miracles in Cuba?
He stopped in front of everyone, stared at them and then spoke: Yes, I am Mr. Day Zero. Although it...
How to be worthy when facing the blockade?
Dignity is very important in Cuban political history. March is the month of Baraguá, Maceo is a prototype of dignity...
Some childhood diseases in the culture of socialism in Cuba
Like measles, mumps or rubella, dogmatism and sectarianism have been early pathologies in Cuban socialism. Although they are not precisely...
Cuba: Is the monetary unification’s Day 0 approaching?
For some time now, social networks have been circulating lists of the new prices that must be implemented in the...
Cuba: the right of free movement and international standards
The current Cuban Constitution, in its article 52, establishes that “people have the freedom to enter, remain, transit and leave...
Cuba: Peace for those who left and those who stayed
If President Donald Trump asked me for my opinion on how to ease the pain of the Cuban family, I...
Emigration’s role in the Cuban economy, beyond remittances
While one of Los Van Van songs fills the premises, a professional Cuban dancer, who emigrated several years ago to...
That Dialogue of 1978
Since the end of the Ford administration (1974-1977), and especially during the beginning of Carter's (1977-1981), there was a certain...
Cuban state-run gastronomy and commerce: persistent headaches
Whoever spends time walking through the blocks that make up 23rd Street, I Street, 25th Street and F Street, will...
Cuban emigrants and the political culture of exile (II)
Read the first part of this article. The sensation that people under 40 have, that a great many of their...
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