English Translations of Cubans Writing From the Island
(Published on BBC Mundo 17 December) It didn’t fail to surprise me although I wasn’t taken unawares. I’d said among friends, who called me crazy, that Gross and the three wouldn’t be exchanged, that without Human Rights there would be no relations. I respected the point, but I recalled the politics are cooked up with … Continue reading “Releases / Regina Coyula”
Photo by Rebeca Cuban authorities, instead of promoting the country’s development in a diversified manner, by applying science and intelligence to serious, systematic, and responsible work, have always gone about it by constant improvisation, betting on this or that economic factor that could resolve all the problems in one go. That is, they tend to … Continue reading “Siren Songs / Fernando Damaso”
Photo: Rebeca For several years the Cuban economy has come up with some strange processes which raise questions and cause us to think. On the one hand there is talk of an interest in attracting foreign investment to jump-start the economy. Some of these investments — those from Russia, China, Vietnam, Brazil and Venezuela — … Continue reading “Strange Processes / Fernando Damaso”
14ymedio, Havana, 19 December 2022 — The process of recognition by the World Health Organization (WHO) for Abdala, the Cuban vaccine against COVID-19, remains halted after the documentation was delivered to the health authorities in April. Eight months later, Eduardo Martínez Díaz, president of the BioCubaFarma business group, assures the State newspaper Granma that the … Continue reading “Delay in the Validation of Cuban Vaccines by the WHO is ‘The Fault of the Banks’”
14ymedio, Juan Diego Rodríguez, Havana, 15 December 2022 — Throwing a bucket of water off the balcony, burning a doll or painting the house are some of the traditions that Cubans turn to every December so that, when January arrives, the problems of the previous year don’t pass to the new one. It is a … Continue reading “A Foreign Currency Store for Mexican Paint Supplies, ‘Proudly Cuban,’ Opens in Havana”
14ymedio, Havana, October 30, 2018 — “Now it’s a high-risk investment but I hope that in five years everything changes for the better.” That’s the hope expressed by an Italian businessman who has invested in the Island, stumbling over the habitual difficulties of doing business in Cuba. “Since I first became interested until I was … Continue reading “Cuba Looks for Investors Ready to Take Risks”
14ymedio, Miriam Celaya, Havana, 28 December 2016 — On December 27th, at the Havana Convention Center, the Eighth Session of the Eighth Legislature of the Cuban Parliament opened, with a balance sheet on the socio-economic results of the year ending and the proposed draft of the National Budget Law for 2017. This time, there is … Continue reading “Cuban Parliament Sessions Predict Somber Times / 14ymedio, Miriam Celaya”
14ymedio, Havana, Pedro Campos, 6 April 2016 — Politicians, analysts and academics, both socialists and liberals, have addressed the importance of the political and economic democratization of Cuban society as a basis for the desired lift-off towards the development and modernization of the nation. For a sector of the democratic left and more than a … Continue reading “Without Democratization There is No Guarantee of Cuba’s Independence / 14ymedio, Pedro Campos”
EFE/14ymedio, 4 March 2016 — Cuba’s opening to foreign capital does not mean the “accelerated privatization” of its economy, so the island insists on attracting investment projects that “match” the “public policy” of the country, according to an article Friday in the official newspaper Granma. Deborah Rivas, Director General of Foreign Investment of the Ministry of … Continue reading “Cuba Says Opening To Foreign Capital Does Not Imply A Privatization Of Economy / EFE, 14ymedio”
