Cuba

By Jesús Arboleya Cervera HAVANA – The selection of Paul Ryan as the Republican candidate to the Vice Presidency of the United States gives continuity to the strategy followed by that…
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Between bureaucrats and brutocrats By Manuel Alberto Ramy HAVANA – Last May, Cuban Erick Hernández set a Guinness record when he kicked a soccer ball for 12 hours and 5 minutes…
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From Granma Newspaper The First Criminal Court in the People’s Provincial Tribunal in Holguín, after evaluating the abundant proof presented in the oral trial held recently in that…
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"Hard-line performers are 'restricted,' top programmer says" By Tony Pinelli HAVANA – In early July, after a trip abroad that lasted about two months, I went to Radio…
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From cabbages to fireflies * Evil powers By La Saeta (The Arrow) HAVANA – It is not hard to conclude that those who oppose changes in Cuba have power. I’m not saying a lot or a…
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By the staff of IPS Cuba ipscuba@ipscuba.net HAVANA – The new tax law, approved by the Cuban Parliament in late July, generated a debate between artists and activists about the…
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The Street Opera must now rely on public subsidy By Gerardo Arreola From the Mexican newspaper La Jornada HAVANA – Economic reforms notwithstanding, the popular troupe The Street…
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By Esteban Morales Domínguez From his blog HAVANA – In April 2010, I wrote that corruption was the most difficult and dangerous challenge we had to face. A problem of national…
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Water in a basket (a blog under construction) Raw sugar, refined lies By Dalia Céspedes ‘Órbita,’ by Manuel Moreno Fraginals. Unión Publishers, Havana, 2009. 477 pgs.…
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By Radio Progreso Alternativa HAVANA – A statement from the Cuban company Cubapetróleo (CUPET), published on Aug. 6, says that while the prospection operations conducted by PC Gulf of…
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