"The choice is in every Cuban man or woman, subject to citizen’s sovereignty by natural right. It is very difficult to exercise this right under totalitarian regimes, but it has not been impossible." -- Dagoberto Valdés Hernández...
The cost of cell phone service is remarkably high for most Cubans when compared to the average monthly salary of about $30. Opening an account costs about $40 and calls cost about 40 cents per minute....
Today, State Security officials come mostly from low-income backgrounds, they aren’t very bright, and therefore they lack the ability to efficiently assess what the cost/benefit relationship of their actions is....
"I consider myself a revolutionary socialist...
Harley Morales is a member of the political strategy committee of the University Alliance, one of the five student movements that make up the University and Civil Society Coalition, an umbrella group that has taken up the political struggle to demand the departure of the...
I argued with the ASCE 'Castro regime apologists' on the panel that the content of Title III of the Helms-Burton Act includes the justification of the ongoing embargo against Cuba, as long as the Cuban government fails to meet certain conditions....
When, from time to time, rumors about the specter of “a new Special Period” threaten to reappear, what is feared, are the prolonged blackouts, the collapse of public transport, the closure of industries, preventable diseases, and the disappearance of products from the market....
Cuban schools currently have 'historically revisionist' curricula that paint past Cuban figures in an inaccurate, negative light. Julio Sanguily who was one of the most prominent figures of the Revolution of 1868 has been designated as a traitor....
“In Cuba, corruption is tolerated. Six or seven years ago, several operators of the Sol y Son tourism company, with the complicity of Civil Aviation officials, implemented an under the table import business from Mexico. The poor maintenance of the airplanes and the contracting...
In Venezuela extreme poverty has spread like the plague. Human capital is fleeing. Oil production is plummeting, and the state-owned oil company is in default. The garbage bag, imported with dollars, is a thing of value. ...