A Lesson in Semantics for Castroism
Omar López MontenegroMiamiCastroism's usual instruments to control Cubans' consciousness have become obsolete, and in many cases they have even backfired.
Castroism's usual instruments to control Cubans' consciousness have become obsolete, and in many cases they have even backfired.
Several cases demonstrate that, in addition to money, Cuba's sports authorities lack common sense.
At the root of rationing in Cuba is the system's productive incapacity and its control over its people.
'It's as if people are striving to flout that indicated by government and partisan directives.'
The new movement aims to unite Cubans of all kinds to, first of all, put an end to 'five forms of internal state subjugation'.
'It's terrible what we go through for children to learn something and meet what school demands,' says a Cuban mother.
Maternal malnutrition is one of the realities influencing Cuban women when they decide whether or not to have children.
Castroism owes its longevity to preventing the people who opposite it, and might overthrow it, from organizing and advancing a coherent set of ideas.
'The ICAIC is 65 years old, and gives its filmmakers no space, does not answer their emails or letters, and then talks about a celebration of Cuban cinema,' says Rosa María Rodriguez Pupo.
Alina Bárbara López Hernández, Ulises Toirac, Yotuel, Randy Malcom, Osmani García, Cuqui la Mora, La Diosa, Leoni Torres, Daymé Arocena and others weigh in on the situation in Cuba, all of them sending the same message: 'No to violence'.
The population is growing at a normal rate in only 33 municipalities, the authorities admit.
Although the preliminary drafts of the future laws have not yet been published, it is not too early to ask questions about their contents and how they should benefit Cubans.
Is an operation underway in Cuba to displace an entire sector of Castroism, deemed too ideological, and promote a more business-friendly system headed by the military?
By publicly proclaiming her defiance of the regime, Alina Bárbara López is challenging the foundations of Cuba's system of domination. We can't all be Mahatma Gandhi, but anyone can be Rosa Parks.
Erratic policies, produced by fear and devoid of objectives, have been the hallmarks of this Raulian era, the perfect culmination of a regime that is close to disappearing and that no one will miss.
If after 500 years of tradition Cuba's rum and tobacco now need the government to protect them, something has been truly botched.
The coordinator of a citizen platform that demands the right to a dignified retirement talked to DIARIO DE CUBA.
Inmates' pregnancies are fraught with problems impacting not only those who opt to give birth in prisons, but also those who are separated from their children by their incarceration.
'Although there has been a lot of hot air about how important and urgent ending inflation is, the reality is that they haven't taken a single measure really aimed at lowering prices.'
Antibiotics selling for 600 to 1,500 pesos, blister packs of Vitamin B for 450, Bactrim for 400, benzathine penicillin for 1,000 pesos per vial...