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Alina Bárbara López.
Alina Bárbara López. Diario de Cuba
Politics

The Power of Everyday Acts

Miami

By publicly proclaiming her defiance of the regime, Alina Bárbara López is challenging the foundations of Cuba's system of domination. We can't all be Mahatma Gandhi, but anyone can be Rosa Parks.

Raúl Castro.
Raúl Castro. Europa Press
Opinion

Raúl Castro: the general in his defeat

La Habana 2

Erratic policies, produced by fear and devoid of objectives, have been the hallmarks of this Raulian era, the perfect culmination of a regime that is close to disappearing and that no one will miss.

Cuban political Prisoners with children.
Cuban political Prisoners with children. Cuban Prisons Documentation Center
Oppression

Prison in Cuba: a tough place to be a mother

Lima

Inmates' pregnancies are fraught with problems impacting not only those who opt to give birth in prisons, but also those who are separated from their children by their incarceration.

Two welders at a shipyard in Santiago de Cuba.
Two welders at a shipyard in Santiago de Cuba. Granma
Opinion

Judging Castroism by its actions, not its intentions

La Habana

'Although there has been a lot of hot air about how important and urgent ending inflation is, the reality is that they haven't taken a single measure really aimed at lowering prices.'

A woman in Cuba.
A woman in Cuba. Diario de Cuba
Crisis

Is there a humanitarian crisis in Cuba?

Madrid

In DIARIO DE CUBA, three experts discuss the aptness of the term to describe the situation on the island.

Guillermo García Frías and Raúl Castro
Guillermo García Frías and Raúl Castro efe
Corruption

Do the rankings reflect the magnitude of the corruption in Cuba?

Madrid

'Raúl Castro's family controls GAESA parcel delivery, and tourism, while those of Guillermo García Frías and Juan Almeida Bosque run the agri-food business and the monopoly on imports. The Miguel Díaz-Canel and Manuel Marrero tandem, wallowing in tourism dividends, is raking it in.'

Lai Ching-te (left) celebrates his election victory.
Lai Ching-te (left) celebrates his election victory. AFP
Politics

Taiwan's Message to Cuba: Pragmatism

Madrid

On two similar islands that have taken different paths, their different economic, political and social results are glaring.

Fidel Castro back when he was rising to power in Cuba.
Fidel Castro back when he was rising to power in Cuba. MINREX
Opinion

Cuba: the commitments of freedom

Madrid 1

'The Cuban Revolution; that is, the long tyranny of Castro and his henchmen and their successors, was made possible, among other things, by their cunning emphasis on pitting justice again freedom'.