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By Varela The August heat in Cuba bites, doesn't burn. I remember Martí's aphorism that the sun has spots and that the grateful people talk about its light while the ungrateful ones…
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Second Date Blockade By Silvio Rodriguez From Cubadebate I've been in the city since Saturday because of an emergency. The video card in our computer died, halting the…
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By Manuel Alberto Ramy ramymanuel@yahoo.com From Ramy's blog, A Correspondent's Notebook After the official announcement that new spaces will be opened for the citizens' economic…
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Al’s Loupe If David Rivera were Pinocchio, he’d deny his nose continues to grow By Alvaro F. Fernandezalvaro@progresoweekly.com David Rivera won the Republican primary election in…
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By Guillermo Rodríguez Rivera From Rebelión I would like to start with the shame, because Alejandro Ríos affirms* that I haven't a bit of it when I say that Silvio Rodríguez,…
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By Salim Lamrani From The Huffington Post The question of the number of "political prisoners" in Cuba is subject to controversy. According to the Cuban government, there are no…
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By Tim Padgett From Time Magazine After it looked a couple of months ago as if a bill lifting the ban on U.S. travel to Cuba had the momentum to pass Congress, it now appears…
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By Bill Press As every sixth-grader knows, pilgrims originally came to these shores in search of religious freedom. Too bad we don't still practice it. Even in colonial days, many…
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By Max J. Castromajcastro@gmail.com Yossarian, the protagonist of Joseph Heller’s classic 1961 novel Catch-22, is a bombardier on a U.S. B-25 Army air force plane during World War II.…
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By Saul Landau That cliché in modern America should get re-worded: “Taxes Equal Death.” In 2010, unique in the world, the U.S. military budget absorbs the lion’s share of the federal…
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