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Cuban Diary XIX: What the UN Rapporteur Should See / Angel Santiesteban Posted on May 19, 2013
If the Commission on Human Rights in Geneva saw through a crack the horrors that occur in Cuban prisons, surely it would do… Continue reading
Posted on Saturday, 05.18.13 U.S. Foreign Policy
U.S. foreign aid chief talks about region’s future BY JIM WYSS jwyss@MiamiHerald
SINCELEJO, Colombia — Rajiv Shah is the head of the U.S. Administration for International Development, one of the world’s largest aid… Continue reading
Posted on Friday, 05.17.13 CUBA REFORMS
Oedipus in Havana BY JOSE AZEL jazel@miami.edu
When Oedipus, the tragic hero of Greek mythology, realized in agony and shame the calamity he had brought his city, he could not bear to see the… Continue reading
The Long Road to Recovery / Rebeca Monzo Posted on May 17, 2013
Holding on to my patience I managed to watch the National TV News (NTV) for a while. I had to make sure I kept calm in order… Continue reading
How Expensive is having a Child in Cuba? May 17, 2013 By Fabián Flores (Café Fuerte)
HAVANA TIMES — For the second consecutive year, the London-based organization Save the Children has identified Cuba as the best country in Latin America… Continue reading
Posted on Friday, 05.17.13
23 Cuban migrants returned home by US Coast Guard The Associated Press
MIAMI — U.S. Coast Guard officials say they have returned nearly two dozen Cuban migrants to their homeland.
The Coast Guard says 23 people… Continue reading
Posted on Thursday, 05.16.13
Cuban food production drops despite reforms By Juan O. Tamayo jtamayo@ElNuevoHerald.com
Cuba saw a steep and unexplained drop in the harvest of vegetables and fruit in the first three months of the year despite government reforms… Continue reading
Behind a Kilo of Meat in Cuba / Juan Juan Almeida Posted on May 16, 2013
A few days ago I read that within the vast and complicated machinery of the Cuban Ministry of the Food Industry (MINAL), the meat… Continue reading
Posted on Wednesday, 05.15.13
Crackdown on Afro-Cubans destroys myth of racial equality BY JON B. PERDUE Twitter@jonperdue
OSLO, Norway At the time of Fidel Castro’s takeover of Cuba in 1959, “separate but equal” was the norm in much of… Continue reading
HAVANA TIMES — Despite efforts to bolster agricultural and livestock production and reduce food product imports, the most recent government statistics reveal that Cuba’s economy is currently… Continue reading
Should We Criticize Mandela? May 15, 2013 Alfredo Fernández
HAVANA TIMES — A well-known episode in contemporary history is the fact that, when the government of South Africa established the apartheid regime, former South African president Nelson Mandela, then a… Continue reading
Cuba readies corruption trials of Western businessmen By Marc Frank HAVANA | Tue May 14, 2013 10:50pm EDT
(Reuters) – Canadian and British executives of three foreign businesses shut in 2011 by Cuban authorities, ostensibly for corrupt practices, have been… Continue reading
The Sound of Silence / Rosa Maria Rodriguez Posted on May 11, 2013
Miguel Diaz-Canel criticized the information silence imposed on us by the authorities and called it an “impossible dream” to maintain it due to the circulation of news… Continue reading
Cuba: Moving Backwards May 14, 2013 Veronica Fernandez
HAVANA TIMES — While the common Cuban is beating his or her head trying to figure out what they will throw together for dinner tonight, the Ernest Hemingway Fishing Tournament, a competition… 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
Questionable Congratulations / Fernando Damaso Posted on May 8, 2013
Although the United Nations stopped being a credible institution many years ago, at times it still issues announcements which can leave us astonished. This is what happened when a letter… Continue reading
We Approach the Present Through the Past / Dimas Castellanos Posted on May 8, 2013
New resolutions issued by the Ministry of Economy and Planning, introducing changes in economic relations, give more attention to the re-insertion of non-state forms of… Continue reading
USAID/Cuba, a Schizophrenic Policy May 7, 2013 By Tracey Eaton (alongthemalecon.blogspot.com)
HAVANA TIMES — If Washington’s policies toward Havana were a person, the poor soul would likely be confused, maybe even schizophrenic.
U.S. officials try to starve Cuba into submission… Continue reading