Marrero tries to put band-aids on a wound that will not close, repeats already familiar information, and announces a technical maintenance halt at two large thermoelectric plants.
'In this trial, all the parties, including the defense counsel of the six parties tried and convicted in Cuba, favored the impunity of Fidel Castro's son and MININT officials,' says a DIARIO DE CUBA lawyer.
Independent civil society is rebutting the official narrative on the situation of women, the manipulation of information, and the opacity of statistics, and condemning the political persecution suffered by activists.
No one can rule out that the Cuban regime’s crusade against private property will rage on, even though it would bankrupt thousands of MSMEs, leading to famine and a humanitarian crisis.
It is not only teenage pregnancy: 'the revolutionary work in education has done anthropological damage that it will be very difficult to reverse without the recovery of citizens' freedoms'.
'I'm interested in recovering a term that has spread, and that is migratory mourning.' A psychologist, a sociologist and a doctor in Migration Studies talk about these issues.
Professionals who have resumed their careers in other countries share their experiences and compare the conditions under which they now work with those they left on the island.
'The times when the ration book included dozens of products are not coming back,' says a retiree. 'I think that if the government hasn't cancelled it all at once because it fears a popular uprising'.
For a transition, the importance of those holding positions at different levels of the government, silent out of fear but yearning for change, must not be disregarded.
The devastating new measures taken against Cuba's private sector are a repetition of mistakes made previously, and the regime knows it. Why, then, are they applying them?
Neither the government's press, nor the PCC, nor any authority has explained 'how the problem of workers who were left unemployed by the forced closure of dozens of MSMEs will be solved,' says one woman affected.
If the Ministry of Agriculture granted 100 pesos of credit for each fruitless plan, measure, resolution, order, strategy, law, and agreement it has issued, Cuba's fields would not be overrun with marabou.
The numerous incentives granted to foreign investors a decade ago are still in force, while those for the private sector did not last even three years.
DIARIO DE CUBA talks about relations between the two countries with Cuban journalist Rubén Cortés, who has been based in Mexico for more than 20 years.