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Organic Cooperative Proves that Agriculture Can Prosper in Cuba By Ivet González
Continuous upgrading and a “vocation” for farming are two keys to the success of a cooperative that could serve as a model for boosting agriculture in Cuba.
HAVANA,… Continue reading
Small and Large Steps towards Equality for Gays in Cuba By Ivet González
CIEGO DE ÁVILA, Cuba , May 20 2013 (IPS) – The lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community in Cuba has won advances on issues like the change… Continue reading
The Party Continues Written by Jerry Brewer
Regardless of how much the Castro brothers try to reinvent their revolution, the old adage of a leopard cannot change its spots appears to be the reality within their fantasy idealism. Raul Castro… Continue reading
Cuba: Eliminating All Forms of Discrimination and Restoring Freedoms May 20, 2013 Yusimí Rodriguez
HAVANA TIMES — Reading Granma’s cultural pages recently, I came across two things that would not have caught my attention had they been published separately. Seeing… Continue reading
A Second Evaluation / Dimas Castellanos Posted on May 17, 2013
On May 1 the government of Cuba was the subject for the second time of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), a tool of the Human Rights Council (HRC) of… Continue reading
Agencia EFE May 15, 2013 19:00
Dissident calls for reform in Cuba
Miami, May 15 (EFE).- Cuban dissident Manuel Cuesta Morua, the leader of the Arco Progresista group, called in Miami on Wednesday for a “new national project” that undertakes… Continue reading
Cuba: The Persistence of Institutional Racism May 16, 2013 Esteban Morales
Who is responsible for the fact our national statistics do not offer the information needed to conduct a thorough study of the racial issue in Cuba?
Who is responsible… Continue reading
An Almost an Impossible Chimera / Regina Coyula Posted on May 15, 2013
Freedom of information is an issue that has recently been addressed in the press about Cuba with regards to a statement by Vice President Miguel Diaz-Canel at… Continue reading
Neither so Educated nor so Superior / Miriam Celaya Posted on May 14, 2013
HAVANA, Cuba, May, www.cubanet.org- I’ve heard it said that hunger can affect vision permanently. For a while, I thought that this sentence was just a popular… Continue reading
Is There a Cuban Model of Wellbeing / Fernando Damaso Posted on May 14, 2013
A careful read of the extensive article, “A look at the Cuban model of wellbeing,” published in the daily Granma on 13 May 2013, raised,… Continue reading
Tindouf: The forgotten Children Deported to Cuba Written by Ali Haidar Wednesday, 15 May 2013 16:29
Hundreds of children from the Polisario-controlled Tindouf camps are deported every year to Cuba. These children are forcibly separated from their parents and shipped… Continue reading
Cuba: The Hard Work of Being a Mother May 11, 2013 Rosa Martínez
HAVANA TIMES —Though I read all of the comments that people write in response to my posts, I am not always able to reply to them, much… Continue reading
Posted on Saturday, 05.11.13
Cuban Eliécer Ávila asks tough questions that scare regime BY MIRTA OJITO Mao35@columbia.edu
Eliécer Ávila is up with the roosters every morning, shoveling pig manure in the modest farm in the province of Las Tunas, Cuba,… Continue reading
Six-day event in Pittsburgh targets discrimination in Cuba Fidel Castro declared it nonexistent, but racism is still pervasive in a country known more for its rich culture May 11, 2013 12:13 am By Diana Nelson Jones / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Think… Continue reading
Posted on Friday, 05.10.13
Mariela Castro, Cuba and human rights BY JOE CARDONA jccigar@aol.com
In the wake of several Cuban dissidents’ enlightening visits to the United States — among them Yoani Sánchez, Rosa María Payá and Berta Soler — came… Continue reading
HAVANA TIMES —When, at the close of 2011, after more than fifty years of restrictions, the Cuban government opened the Pandora’s box of Cuba’s real… Continue reading
Cuba’s Democratic Left on State Socialism May 9, 2013 | | Print Print | 0 5 11 32
HAVANA TIMES — A couple weeks ago we published a summary of an essay by Pedro Campos and Armando Chaguaceda on the… Continue reading
Cuba Knows Condom Use Not Enough By Ivet González
HAVANA, May 9 2013 (IPS) – “But I always used a condom!” was the sentence that played over and over in Jaime Roche’s mind when the young Cuban man tested positive… Continue reading