Flouting World Health Organization recommendations, the authorities are pressuring parents to get their children vaccinated.
How can one prevail in a dispute with an all-powerful regime, within its borders, when it does not respect any law but its own?
David Alejandro Martínez Espinosa, who signed the announcement convening the peaceful protest in Cienfuegos, says that now he will also take a stand for 'an end to the harassment at work of citizens with different political ideas'.
Castroism imports cars to bolster tourism, but waits to see whether someone will provide it with ambulances.
'I’m not helpless, and I don't want to be condescended to. I need a dignified retirement,' says a retired teacher who worked for the state for 35 years.
The day when the government eliminates paper money may seem far off, but it is not; Castroism has been taking steps in his direction for years, touting its economic benefits, which prevents us from seeing the political threat it poses.
The Cuban State invests 57 times more in Tourism than in Health. DIARIO DE CUBA talked about this with economists Emilio Morales, Rafaela Cruz, Elías Amor, Omar Everleny Pérez Villanueva, and the sociologist Elaine Acosta.
The regime wants to whitewash its image with a major artistic event while Cuba is falling apart.
The idea that the world is a very, very bad place has been implanted in Cubans' minds to make them believe that a planned economy and the one-party model are the solutions for the future of the planet
The Goebbelian theory that a lie repeated a thousand times comes to be considered the truth is gradually ceasing to hold true on the island
Cuba's "hoarders", "resellers, " "line holders" and those making up its huge underground market are legitimate "children" of every Marxist-Leninist tyranny. They are the effects, not the causes, of the shortages affecting the country.
With the money from emigrants, the conglomerate led by Luis Alberto López-Callejas builds hotels and creates real estate assets. But there is much more.
As always, without a clear moral compass, and resorting to whatever needs to be done to stay in power, the regime has chosen the worst option.
The success of any transition and the emergence of a healthy and dynamic society will depend on the combination of justice and economic realism with which it is carried out
'The rationing policy has only generated more inequalities and tremendous discontent in the sector of the population with the lowest incomes,' says a Havana woman.
No external agent is blocking access to the Internet, which Cubans are paying for, and no foreign power is restricting economic freedoms at home, or stymying prosperity.
It is no coincidence that, instead of changing its strategy, instead we see a familiar script from the past, and we know how it ends: fields overrun with marabou, taro at the price of caviar, and a notable decrease in the cat population.
With four gold medals, one silver and one bronze, it did not achieve its goal of placing among the top 20 countries in the final medal count.
Taking capital out of the hands of the oligarchs and putting it directly into those of Cuban citizens is the empowerment that the Cuban people need, and the great challenge faced by the Biden Administration.
Of the five classic questions that a homicide detective regularly asks, in this case most have already been answered.
