Laws

What Difference Does the Cuban Constitution Recognizing Dual Citizenship Make?

DDCMadrid

The Government has not modified the Migration Law or drafted the Citizenship Law. We analyze the consequences.

Opinion

What Power Does Cuba’s Mafia Elite Still Retain?

Juan Antonio BlancoMiami

Of the Castro regime's three pillars of power, only one remains standing, and it has begun to crack.

Laws

Constitution and Legislative Schedule in Cuba: Pure Window Dressing

DDCMadrid

The Official Gazette of the Republic published 1,928 legal provisions from April 10, 2019 to April 1, 2021. None involve guaranteeing individual rights.

Opinion

Castro's Economy: Cuba's Parasitic Policies

Rafaela CruzLa Habana

Cuba's failure is not due to having an inept government, but rather one that is, in fact, very effective at implementing policies calculated to achieve its aims.

Foreign Investment: A "Red Bull" for Cuba

Rafaela CruzLa Habana

Who would work for the State if foreign entrepreneurs, starting with Cuban émigrés, could open modern industries and services in Cuba?

Human Rights

In Cuba, College is for Revolutionaries Only —Even If They Are Thieves

DDCMadrid

If they can expel you for protesting, education in Cuba is neither free nor universal

Policy

8th Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba: The Old Castroist Elite’s Last Gambit

Lucía Alfonso MirabalLa Habana

Given their refusal to dialogue with their critics, the Cuban regime’s higher-ups will make it clear to Communist Party members that retreat is not an option

Economy

The Direst Effect of the Tarea Ordenamiento: Citizen Protest Throughout Cuba

Emilio MoralesMiami

The economic restructuring of the "Ordering Task" may become the Trojan Horse that will deliver the coup de grace to 62 years of dictatorship.

Opinion

A Formula for Change in Cuba

Jorge A. SanguinettyMiami

Sustained and diversified pressure exerted by the opposition to force dialogue with those in power opens up possibilities that must be explored.

Tarea Ordenamiento

A lack of monetary control, inflation, and the impoverishment of Cubans: 80 days of the Tarea Ordenamiento legislation

Mario Luis Reyes BetancourtMadrid

Cuban economists Mauricio de Miranda, Elías Amor and Omar Everleny Pérez spoke with DIARIO DE CUBA about the initial consequences of the government measures.

Music

'Patria y Vida' The Making-Of of the Song that Told the Cuban Regime: 'It's Over!'

Alberto Arego / Lien CarrazanaMadrid

'People needed to sing something all together, have a common song, for a cause.' DIARIO DE CUBA spoke with several of those involved in the song's creation.

Shortages

Cuba's Economy Is Shifting... Towards Barter

Rafaela CruzLa Habana

Although people are not conducting technical analyses of monetary policy, because of rampant inflation they sense that the national currency is becoming less and less reliable.

COVID-19

One year of Covid-19 in Cuba: How the Government Has (Mis)handled the Situation

DDCMadrid

Cases are on the rise in the country, misinformation continues, and vaccines exist only in the official headlines.

Politics

Cuba's Leadership Devises 'Security Corridors' for Itself in Havana

DDCMadrid

Council of Ministers' Agreement 8999/2021 will also prohibit any protests by citizens before ministerial headquarters.

COVID-19

No Rush to Overcome Covid-19 in Cuba

Orlando Freire SantanaLa Habana

The Cuban people have to wait for the national vaccine, when most Latin American nations began to vaccinate against Covid-19 some time ago.

Human Rights

A Verdict Makes History in Cuba by Rejecting 'Contempt' as a Crime

DDCSantiago de Cuba

As a crime, 'contempt' is a kind of armor for the regime that the courts are beginning to pierce.

Economy

'These two months have been very hard': Cubans react to the Tarea Ordenamiento

DDCLa Habana

They complain about rising prices and low wages

Society

Marriage Must Be a Right for all Cubans, Heterosexual or Not

Yusimí Rodríguez LópezMadrid

Guarantees, like joint property, and inheritances, depend on the formalization of the relationship. Gay and lesbian couples in Cuba, in this sense, are excluded.

Laws

Housing Law: An Instrument to Evict Desperate Mothers and Discourage Childbirth in Cuba

DDCMadrid

The Cuban state tends to demonstrate greater efficiency in applying punishments than finding solutions.

Health

'We had to fudge the numbers, I did. I even put the names of acquaintances of mine in Cuba': Doctors on 'missions' during the pandemic

Yusimí Rodríguez LópezMadrid

'They tell you that you can't lie, but they force you to,' says a professional who worked in Venezuela.