Dialogue with Cuban emigration: how can we help the country really grow?
December 1977 That December of 1977 would be different for fifty-five young residents in the United States and Puerto Rico,...
An abandoned corner of Santiago de las Vegas
Whoever takes Vedado’s Avenida de los Presidentes from Havana’s Malecón and keeps heading south for about forty minutes if there’s...
Cuban emigrants and the political culture of exile (I)
When Fernando Ortiz differentiated the Cuban condition―cubanidad and cubanía―he did not establish ideological distinctions. And when he spoke of belonging...
Legislative schedule in Cuba: a step forward and some doubts
The National Assembly of People’s Power (ANPP) approved on December 21, 2019 the legislative schedule for the current legislature. It...
Fraternity, that ghost. The Cuban Republic in José Martí
The Ode to Joy, by Friedrich von Schiller, was first published in 1786. It reads: “Joy, thou beauteous godly lightning,...
Employment and the future of Cuba
The resident Cuban population at the end of 2018 was 11,209,628 and its distribution by sex says that 5,575,988 were...
The apostle’s blood
Marti's life and death are a mystery to Cubans. A man of the second half of the 19th century rules...
The example of “Forever Young” and what Orishas has done with “Ojalá”
In 1988 after feeling the separation from his children because of his work, the great British singer Rod Stewart composed...
Businesspeople wanted in Cuba!
A phrase at the Mesa Redonda TV program on Thursday, January 9 has motivated this article: “We don’t need enterprise...
“The family is sacred”
“The family is sacred,” my father told me that day. “I will not abandon you.” At that time (a day...
The economic reform in Cuba: stuck in the middle
It is clear that Cuba has gone from a long first stage in which reforms were understood as a necessary...
Against gender-based violence in Cuba…. What if we redouble the commitment?
The discussion about gender-based violence has gained visibility in Cuba. The institutions that have worked on it and those that...
Does anti-Castro-ism have the key to the White House’s policies?
As is known, the United States has always been a domestic factor in Cuban life. As with cyclones and ballgames,...
Cuba and the right to due process: what is pending
The Cuban Constitution of 2019 dedicates articles 94 and 95 to the regulation of the right to due process. Both...
Andy, don’t back up. Facundo, don’t die
We are experiencing a kind of mourning, mixed with irritation, disappointment, uncertainty, because of the very summary suspension of actor...
Eusebio, how did you do it?
It was 1979. Eusebio Leal was leaning on the southeast wall of the Palace of the Captains General in Old...
The economy and hope
They had spent several months working hard on their project. They had been discussing the idea since before graduating from...
Comprehensive Law against Gender Violence: what is gained and what is lost
In Cuba, that which will be the last state regulation regarding sexist violence is being discussed. So far, it is...
Christian fundamentalists against women’s rights in Cuba
A transnational religious culture is moving silently through every corner of the planet, no matter the country, nor its system,...
Quo Vadis? The currency collection stores in Cuba and the patching up of the economy
We already saw how the need arose to implement a partial dollarization of the economy. First, to have the necessary...
The gender of gender violence
In recent weeks, one of the most echoed and systematic debates in Cuba has been that of gender violence, especially...
Cuban entrepreneurs and development
It was more than the whole paragraph under the headline of Granma that caught my attention. The headline said, “Toda...
I like to pay taxes
“Nobody likes to pay taxes.” That was the reply that a public official used to refute what I told him,...
The currency collection stores in Cuba and their goals
It was the first years of the 1990s and Cuba entered the so-called Special Period in Peace Time. To resist...
Eusebio of Old Havana: putting soul into the stones
This will not be an article on economics, although it will inexorably be related to it. Cities have become one...
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