The legislation, ensuring no real transparency, and not meeting international standards, will enter into force 180 days after its publication in the 'Official Gazette'.
While the Migration Law will afford Cubans residing outside the country some rights, the Citizenship Law is more archaic than the one from eight decades ago that it will replace.
The only possible outcome when prices are capped as an anti-inflationary policy is chronic shortages, the proliferation of the black market and, finally, a spike in inflation.
Three years after the public protests of July 11, 2021, it is important to understand the significance of that day, and where we are now.
Fidel Castro lost the country. Today, Castroism is just struggling to stay in power, at any cost.
Several cases of femicide and sexual abuse reveal a pattern of failing to protect victims, in stark contrast to the system's expeditious retaliation against Cubans who criticize the regime.
Why are Chinese businesspeople totally ignoring Cuba, when they could save money by including it in the value chains of their new 'Made in Mexico' products?
Yesterday it was in Caimanera, the day before in Santiago de Cuba, and tomorrow who knows where: what is happening in Cuba is a redefinition of power relationships.
Who would have imagined that the seven trumpets of the Castroist Apocalypse would not be heard sounding from an American aircraft carrier, but rather from the MINFAR General Staff's band?
The same factors that spur thousands of Cubans to start their own businesses hamper their development. Two entrepreneurs from Matanzas share their experiences.
While ordinary prisoners' health is compromised by 'indifference and indolence, political prisoners are victims' of 'systematic attacks' on their health through conditions of isolation, and illnesses, explains Juan Carlos González Leyva.
'Apart from bankrupting people and emptying refrigerators, the currency chaos that ravaged the island a few days ago made one thing very clear: Castroism has even less money than shame.'
Ignorance, deliberate lying, scamming Cubans and investors: all of this has affected the decisions about what was the largest national industry.
'Hunger has two faces, but it shows one and hides the other. Cubans today are racked by both at the same time, subjugated by a government that deliberately starves its own people.'
The island's recovery continues to be one of the slowest in the Caribbean. The arrival of Colombians skyrocketed, up +221%, according to one study.
Canada's HMCS Margaret Brooke will remain off Cuba until June 17, the same day that the Russian naval group is to leave.
The regime's days are numbered: blackouts and protests, increasingly original and daring, have become everyday events in Cuba.
Perhaps we are dealing with an opportunity to create something that we don't have today, and that is fundamental to offer the people an alternative to the Castroist catastrophe.
An 11-J protester calls for solidarity with prisoners with mental illnesses who are suffering mistreatment and discrimination in Cuban jails.
'On a state salary, we can only buy hunger and darkness,' complains a Cuban woman who is paid 4,600 pesos.
