Cuba: no rudder, no compass, and a dictatorship at the helm
Rafaela CruzLa HabanaNot one useful or original idea emerged from the most recent Council of Ministers, overseeing a country facing a humanitarian emergency.
Not one useful or original idea emerged from the most recent Council of Ministers, overseeing a country facing a humanitarian emergency.
DIARIO DE CUBA talked with the author of 'La Galaxia Rosa. Cómo el Foro de São Paulo, el Grupo de Puebla y sus aliados internacionales socavan la democracia en América Latina'.
'They conned us, and the worst thing is the humiliation of having to depend on others, even when you have a pension', says a former state restaurant worker.
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.