Cuba

By Aurelio Pedroso HAVANA – If anyone in Cuba with street smarts and ingenuity would set up a row of chairs along the well-known Salvador Allende Avenue (the former Charles III…
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By Dalia Céspedes As soon as I open "Il Sogno di una Cosa," the novel by Italian poet Pier Paolo Passolini, I find this marvelous quote from the prophet Karl Marx,…
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HAVANA, Dec. 17, 2012 –Progreso Semanal/Radio Progreso Alternativa (RPA)– The semisubmersible platform Songa Mercur arrived in the northern coast of Villa Clara, in the center of…
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By Saul Landau HAVANA - Angelie Carmen, tall, pretty and very well built sings on weekends at a popular club in Vibora Park, a neighborhood in Havana. In her day job she works at …
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By Aurelio Pedroso HAVANA – Just when notorious alarmists are announcing the end of the world on Dec. 21, misinterpreting the Mayan calendar (God knows why), and after most people…
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By Manuel Alberto Ramy HAVANA – Electoral politics and the cheap press are one thing. The serious analyses by the think tanks that help formulate policies and in general turn them…
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By Anya Landau French From The Havana Note Could the end really be very, very near for Venezuela's Hugo Chavez? If it comes before his January 10, 2013 swearing in, thus…
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By Aurelio Pedroso and Manuel Alberto Ramy HAVANA – The night of Saturday, Dec. 7, will be one to remember. Seldom does Cuban television interrupt its programming to announce…
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By Elsa Claro HAVANA – The question of whether a glass is half empty or half full allows us to consider that, while in Cuba the Gross Domestic Product (at constant prices) is 3.1…
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By Jesús Arboleya Cervera Because they’re considered to be the most conservative voters in the U.S. political spectrum, the fact that at least 45 percent of Cuban-Americans…
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