Cuba

By Fernando Ravsberg From BBC/Mundo A few years ago, I took part in a debate on a European radio and one of the Cubans on the panel spoke wonders about pre-revolutionary Cuba, its…
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By Shasta Darlington Havana, Cuba (CNN) Cuba announced on Monday it would lay off "at least" half a million state workers over the next six months and simultaneously allow more jobs to…
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By Jeffrey Goldberg (This is the second of a series of articles from the magazine the Atlantic.) There were many odd things about my recent Havana stopover (apart from the dolphin show,…
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By Marta Rojas From Cubadebate In spring of 1960, a young American named Saul Landau traveled to Cuba for the first time. His stay was extended until the start of autumn. He…
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By Jeffrey Goldberg From The Atlantic (Editor’s Note: Progreso Weekly has changed the headline of this excellent article after determining that the original version was misleading.…
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By Mercedes Varona In 2007, the Cuban authorities expressed their decision to introduce changes in the economic model, as a result of the deterioration of some indicators that make up…
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By Carmen Lira Saade (Extracts from interview with Fidel Castro published by the Mexican daily La Jornada) HAVANA – He spent four years struggling between life and death, in and…
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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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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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