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Tomorrow, May 1, the United Nations Human Rights Council will meet in Geneva, where Cuba will present a report with notes on its prison policy. “Dressing up” for the occasion, for the first time in nine years the Castro regime opened its jails to the national and international press accredited in Cuba. It is public … Continue reading “The United Nations Human Rights Council and its Great Challenge With Cuba / Angel Santiesteban”

It’s the country that tops all the international ratings; where teachers have greater decision making powers within schools and more social prestige. In Finland teaching is one of the most popular professions and being a teacher is as respected as being a doctor or lawyer. Perhaps this is one of the factors which explains why … Continue reading “Finland Model of Education: Secrets of a Better Teaching System / Dora Leonor Mesa”

If the democratic left in the world wants to take lessons of what not to do in state policy, please look to Spain. History tends to fickle twists. And perfect anonymous types, after death, joined the army of sacred cows. Also the inverse. Distinguished in life, when God took them, they were despised. But however … Continue reading “Spain: Zapatero Reinvents the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) / Iván García”

1. The Arab spring Only when the events in Egypt exceeded the predictions, did the Cuban press note (with tweezers) some isolated incidents. Nor had it published anything earlier about the riots in Tunisia and Yemen, nor did it later dig into the deposition of Hosni Mubarak. On Libya and and the fall of Muammar … Continue reading “Eleven News Stories Not Reported in Cuba in 2011 / Ernesto Morales Licea”

Last Saturday, the 5th of March, with the deployment of a strong political operation, the trial of US citizen Alan Phillip Gross ended, ready for the verdict. The 10th of October Municipal Court, located at #501 Carmen on the corner of Juan Delgado, in the capital neighborhood of La Víbora, was the scene for this … Continue reading “Ready for the Verdict / Rosa María Rodríguez Torrado”