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Cuba el suicidio, las redes y la libertad
Cuba: el suicidio, las redes y la libertad Enrique Krauze ¿Ha leído usted el libro Mea Cuba de Guillermo Cabrera Infante? Si no, corra a la librería o conéctese a Amazon y cómprelo ya. Es un recordatorio implacable de todo lo que Cuba perdió cuando “llegó el comandante y mandó a parar” (… a parar [...] Continue reading
Desmontando el estado totalitario
Publicado el domingo, 06.09.13 Desmontando el estado totalitario Mirta Ojito Cada vez se hace más difícil saber si se debe ser optimista o pesimista con respecto a Cuba, lo cual es bueno. Por muchos años la mayoría de los exiliados han mantenido una sola visión de la isla: la cosa andaba mal y se ponía [...] Continue reading
Internet en Cuba para los nuevos ricos y la disidencia
Internet en Cuba para los nuevos ricos y la disidencia junio 6, 2013 Por Pedro Campos HAVANA TIMES — A bombo y platillo, con mucha fanfarria, el gobierno cubano ha anunciado que amplía el acceso a internet con la apertura de 118 salas de navegación en todo el país y el costo de la hora [...] Continue reading
Internet Access for the Nouveaux Riche and Dissidents
Cuba: Internet Access for the Nouveaux Riche and Dissidents June 6, 2013 Pedro Campos HAVANA TIMES — With a great song and dance, the Cuban government haughtily announced the broadening of Internet access on the island by opening 118 cybercafés across the country and lowering web navigation rates to 4.50 CUC (or US $ 5.20) [...] Continue reading
Me comunico o no me comunico?
¿Me comunico o no me comunico? Jueves, 06 de Junio de 2013 04:14 Escrito por Hildebrando Chaviano Montes Cuba actualidad, El Vedado, La Habana, (PD) Hay un viejo proverbio de corte racista que dice, “La necesidad hace parir mulatos”. El gobierno cubano al fin se ha decidido a parir Internet para los cubanos. Ha sido [...] Continue reading
Pleno sin soluciones
Pleno sin soluciones [03-06-2013] Aimée Cabrera Corresponsal (www.miscelaneasdecuba.net).- El XCIII Pleno del Consejo Nacional de la Central de Trabajadores de Cuba (CTC) contó con la presencia de los principales dirigentes sindicales y partidistas, quienes analizaron entre otros temas, cómo se han cumplido las tareas relacionadas con el XX Congreso de la Central. Se enfatizó en [...] Continue reading
Cuba Internet, in Slow Motion and Hard Currency
Cuba: Internet, in Slow Motion and Hard Currency / Ivan Garcia Posted on June 2, 2013 Facing the India fountain, next to Fraternity Park and close to the Capitol, in the center of Havana, is nestled the Hotel Saratoga. Its ancient facade, painted lime green, has an architecture of curved arches and tall columns. The [...] Continue reading
Empresarios británicos esperan veredicto en Cuba tras juicio por corrupción
01 de junio de 2013 • 02:07 Empresarios británicos esperan veredicto en Cuba tras juicio por corrupción El juicio de dos días contra ejecutivos de un fondo de inversión británico terminó el viernes y se espera que el panel de cinco jueces entregue su veredicto dentro de los próximos 10 días. Las sentencias de otros [...] Continue reading
Ejecutivos de empresas británicas también van a juicio en La Habana
Ejecutivos de empresas británicas también van a juicio en La Habana Agencias | La Habana | 29 Mayo 2013 – 11:04 am. Son acusados de sobornos, relacionados principalmente con negocios de importación, y de operar fuera de los límites de su licencia. El juicio contra dos ejecutivos de alto rango de una empresa de inversión [...] Continue reading
British fund executives to go on trial in Cuba
Exclusive: British fund executives to go on trial in Cuba Reuters By Marc Frank HAVANA (Reuters) – The two top executives of a British investment fund in Cuba are scheduled to go on trial in Havana on Thursday, according to sources close to the accused men, as part of an unprecedented government crackdown on corruption [...] Continue reading
Cuba silent on Canadian’s corruption trial
Posted on Friday, 05.24.13 Cuba silent on Canadian’s corruption trial The Associated Press HAVANA — Official silence surrounded the case of a Canadian businessman targeted by a corruption probe in Cuba on Friday, as the initial trial of several foreigners suspected of graft entered its second day. Sarkis Yacoubian, 53, who partnered with the Cuban [...] Continue reading
Cuba’s Democratic Left on State Socialism
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 inability of the State Socialist system that reigns in Cuba to carry out the changes [...] Continue reading
Restrictions Aren’t Worth Much
Restrictions Aren’t Worth Much April 24, 2013 Dariela Aquique HAVANA TIMES — Every day, demands become louder from Cuban students for less restrictions on the Internet. This will be one of the points raised at the next congress of the Federation of University Students (FEU). Young people are demanding the right to good and broad [...] Continue reading
The Nature of Socialism
The Nature of Socialism / Rafael Leon Rodriguez Posted on April 23, 2013 The “handpicked” successor of the late comandante Hugo Chavez was elected and is not the new president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro. Starting off, his first statements addresses the aim of radicalizing the revolutionary process. On the one hand [...] Continue reading
EEUU acusa a Venezuela de intimidar opositores y denuncia autoritarismo en Cuba
19 de abril de 2013 • 23:19 EEUU acusa a Venezuela de intimidar opositores y denuncia autoritarismo en Cuba Estados Unidos denunció este viernes en su informe anual sobre Derechos Humanos que Venezuela siguió “politizando el sistema judicial e impidiendo la libertad de expresión” en 2012, mientras que acusó a Cuba de seguir bajo un [...] Continue reading
Cuba and the Enslaving System of Two Currencies
Cuba and the Enslaving System of Two Currencies / Yusnaby Perez Posted on April 16, 2013 The dual currency system in Cuba is one of the major economic and social problems of the country. Don't take my word for it, on several occasions the president of the country, Raul Castro himself (and I have no [...] Continue reading
Jorge Olivera: The History of the Cuban Dissidence is Long
Jorge Olivera: The History of the Cuban Dissidence is Long / Ivan Garcia Posted on April 12, 2013 For someone from Havana, the best thing is to walk the streets in spring. These March days, Jorge Olivera Castillo, 52, poet and journalist, is delighted by the green of the trees, the salty aroma, and the [...] Continue reading
Afro-Cuban author who complained of racism demoted
Posted on Friday, 04.05.13 Afro-Cuban author who complained of racism demoted By Juan O. Tamayo jtamayo@ElNuevoHerald.com A black Cuban author, Roberto Zurbano, whose scathing criticism of racism on the island was published in The New York Times last month, has been demoted from his top job at the government-controlled Casa de las Americas book publishers. [...] Continue reading
Cuba’s most horrifying episode of child sex tourism resulted in a girl’s death
Cuba's most horrifying episode of child sex tourism resulted in a girl's death In May, 2010, Lilian Ramirez Espinosa, along with three other Cuban adolescents, was part of a sex party involving foreigners. Lilian ended up dying, though it's still not clear how. Cuban lawyer Laritza Diversent says the authorities reacted to the fact children [...] Continue reading
Cuba blocks dissident hotline
Posted on Friday, 12.07.12 Cuba blocks dissident hotline A system that allowed Cubans to broadcast their grievances has been blocked by the government. By Juan O. Tamayo jtamayo@ElNuevoHerald.com The Cuban government is blocking calls to U.S. and Spanish telephone numbers once described as a 911 service for dissidents — a system they could use to [...] Continue reading
An Assessment of the Cuban Government’s Management Over the Last Six Years
An Assessment of the Cuban Government's Management Over the Last Six Years / Dimas Castellano Dimas Castellanos, Translator: Unstated Four decades after taking power through revolution in 1959, the factors which made totalitarianism in Cuba possible have reached their limit. The populist measures imposed during the first years after the revolution were accompanied by the [...] Continue reading
In Regards to the Letter from the Cuban Doctors to Raul Castro
In Regards to the Letter from the Cuban Doctors to Raul Castro / Jeovany Jimenez Vega Jeovany J. Vega, Translator: Unstated Every day in this world, in one site or another, clearly or covertly according the dignity of each person, Cuban Public Health Professionals express their opinions about the calamitous situation they face. But this [...] Continue reading
If You Want to Talk About ‘Worms’
If You Want to Talk About 'Worms' October 20, 2012 Maria Matienzo Puerto HAVANA TIMES — Yesterday I had the botella (hitchhiking experience) of my life. I left my boss's house (she lives near the heavily trafficked corner of 23rd and 26th streets in the Vedado district), and proceeded to ask a Cubataxi driver for [...] Continue reading
Who Can We Ask?
Who Can We Ask? October 13, 2012 Esteban Morales* People buy newspapers but usually do so only by inertia, because day after day they won't find anything of interest in them. Photo:Caridad HAVANA TIMES — For people like me who enjoy writing, we also like it when others read our work. But this isn't enough. [...] Continue reading
A Rerun of the Embargo Show
A Rerun of the Embargo Show / Oscar Espinosa Chepe Oscar Espinosa Chepe, Translator: Unstated Cuban authorities, as has been their custom for years, have launched a new campaign against the U.S. embargo, taking advantage of the start of high-level United Nations General Assembly sessions. The worn-out script began with a press conference by Bruno [...] Continue reading
La peste viene de arriba
La peste viene de arriba Miércoles, Septiembre 26, 2012 | Por Pablo Pascual Méndez Piña LA HABANA, Cuba, septiembre, www.cubanet.org -Nada de videos. Ya han pasado diez meses desde que Raúl Castro anunció la divulgación de las películas sobre los escándalos de corrupción estatal y de firmas extranjeras, acontecidos hasta el 2011, y cuyo título [...] Continue reading