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The Small Farmers Association, Today as Yesterday / Dimas Castellano

A report released on Friday, January 25, 2013 in the newspaper Granma reports that the National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP) replaced or “released from their duties” 632 presidents of agricultural cooperatives. The president of that institution, Viego Felix Gonzalez, said at the Eighth Plenum of the National Committee, that a cooperative can not function … Continue reading “The Small Farmers Association, Today as Yesterday / Dimas Castellano”

Changes Are Inevitable / Fernando Damaso #Cuba

Very few doubt that changes are happening in Cuba, although they are epidermal and too slow. Also, very few doubt they should deeper, more comprehensive and faster. The “model” implemented beginning in 1959 has proved its failure: instead of resolving the problems it proposed to solve, it has worsened them, as well as created new … Continue reading “Changes Are Inevitable / Fernando Damaso #Cuba”

Why the UBPC Cooperatives Failed / Dimas Castellano #Cuba

Last August, the Cuban Council of Ministers approved a new General Regulation for the Basic Units of Cooperative Production (UBPC), which was complemented by a packet consisting of 17 measures. The purpose, according to the daily Rebel Youth on September 23, consists of liquidating the dependency of those with respect to state enterprises. The original … Continue reading “Why the UBPC Cooperatives Failed / Dimas Castellano #Cuba”

Treatment and Classification of Prisoners / Cuban Law Association, Dayami Pestano Lazos

B. Dayamí Pestano Lazos Under the Geneva Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (1955), are rules 57 and 59 which address Imprisonment and other measures whose effect is to separate the criminal from the outside world, which are afflicting by the very fact of depriving the individual of his right to dispose of his own person by … Continue reading “Treatment and Classification of Prisoners / Cuban Law Association, Dayami Pestano Lazos”

The Impact of Hispanics in the United States / Miriam Leiva

Miriam Leiva, Havana | 09/27/2012 9:52 am From Cubaencuentro National Hispanic Heritage Month in the United States, from September 15th to October 15th, holds particular importance this year, since it occurs during the electoral campaign heading up to the elections on November 6th. Hispanics can determine the results, especially if they use their right, which they do not always … Continue reading “The Impact of Hispanics in the United States / Miriam Leiva”

The Triumph of the Mediocre / Regina Coyula

What we are most worried about is the vulgarity of Cuban music. Caricature of Garrincha taken from the Internet By email, this second and efficient manner that we Cubans have a receiving information, I have received a brief text that is attributed to various authors, but that jumps into the ring anonymously. The triumph of … Continue reading “The Triumph of the Mediocre / Regina Coyula”

Customs Regulations or a Rogue Swindle / Jeovany Jimenez Vega

The new customs regulations, which took effect on September 3, will require the Cuban people to pay a progressive tax of 10 CUC– or 240 pesos at the current exchange rate– for each kilogram of “miscellaneous items,” including food, and between 100% and 200% of the value of any household electrical appliance or other hardware … Continue reading “Customs Regulations or a Rogue Swindle / Jeovany Jimenez Vega”

Doing Business in Cuba Is Like Surfing Rough Seas / Ivan Garcia

For a business relying on foreign capital to succeed in Cuba, it is essential to create a web of friendships with influential people in the government. Everyone knows how you cultivate these relationships. With good whiskey, gourmet meals and especially with thousands of convertible pesos. For ten yearsRómulo (not his real name) was the right-hand … Continue reading “Doing Business in Cuba Is Like Surfing Rough Seas / Ivan Garcia”

Poverty Versus Wealth / Fernando Damaso

An acquaintance of mine boasts about having suffered from hunger during his childhood and adolescence—noting that he even had to rummage through trash bins—and the poverty that his family experienced. This used to earn him the compassion of a majority of people. By coincidence his mother heard about this one day and angrily assured us, … Continue reading “Poverty Versus Wealth / Fernando Damaso”

The Death of Oswaldo Payá and the Opposition in Cuba / Yoani Sánchez

In less than a year the Cuban opposition has lost two of its most important leaders. On October 14 of last year life of Laura Pollán, the principal coordinator of the Ladies in White and the key figure in the release of the Black Spring prisoners, was cut short. A week ago a car crash, … Continue reading “The Death of Oswaldo Payá and the Opposition in Cuba / Yoani Sánchez”

Payá, Posthumous President / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo

The trashed cityscape reaches all the way to the gate of the parish, in the arid Cerro neighborhood. “The Savior of the World,” says the sign, so distant from the desert outside, beyond the gates. And one thinks, sleepwalking before sunrise: how poor any form of expression is in this country. Dawn lingers on the … Continue reading “Payá, Posthumous President / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo”

CITIZEN PETITION / Wendy Iriepa and Ignacio Estrada

  Havana, June 26, 2012 TO THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF THE POPULAR POWER OF THE REPUBLIC OF CUBA: The Constitution of the Republic of Cuba in its article 63, states All citizens have the right to direct complaints and petitions to the authorities and to receive the attention or pertinent responses in an adequate time-frame, … Continue reading “CITIZEN PETITION / Wendy Iriepa and Ignacio Estrada”

Not Guidelines, Civic Rights / Miriam Celaya

They say God can write straight with crooked lines. I would say that, in Cuba’s case, we should sign God up for a crash course in calligraphy. We have had a half-century of crooked lines and nothing indicates that they will straighten out. Adding to the confusion, the more talk there is in the official … Continue reading “Not Guidelines, Civic Rights / Miriam Celaya”

The Cuban Government Before the Committee Against Torture / Dora Leonor Mesa

By Miriam Leiva, Havana 06/07/2012 Extracted from www.cubaencuentro.com Cuban authorities for more than nine years avoided the analysis of their violations of human rights in the United Nations Committee on Torture; a period that coincides with the uprising of March 2003, when it subjected 75 peaceful protesters to summary trials and shot three young boat … Continue reading “The Cuban Government Before the Committee Against Torture / Dora Leonor Mesa”

Why Doesn’t the Land Belong to Those Who Work It? / Dimas Castellanos

With the title “The Land Belongs to Those Who Work It,” the newspaper Granma published an editorial on May 17, in commemoration of “Peasant’s Day” from which I have selected three points that invite reflection. One: The Agrarian Reform was a basic need for economic liftoff. An affirmation that I share, since the concentration of … Continue reading “Why Doesn’t the Land Belong to Those Who Work It? / Dimas Castellanos”