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Political propaganda in Havana.
Political propaganda in Havana. Reuters
Opinion

Cuba: from the worst socialism to the worst capitalism

La Habana

Fidel Castro's successors are dispensing with the Cuban Revolution and its 'achievements' while assembling a Frankenstein system comprised of rotten pieces of oligarchical capitalism and the most vapid socialism.

Rural Rural school in Cuba.
Rural Rural school in Cuba. Granma
Education

Cuban schools: leaking urine

Miami

Today, with twice the population in 1958, the country has 160 fewer rural schools than before the Castros seized power.

Miguel Díaz-Canel receives Titov Boris Yurievich, president of the Cuba-Russia Business Council.
Miguel Díaz-Canel receives Titov Boris Yurievich, president of the Cuba-Russia Business Council. Estudios Revolución
Foreign Investment

Cuba: for sale to the highest bidder

La Habana

The rhetoric of the island's rulers regarding foreign investment has softened.

Electoral college in Cuba.
Electoral college in Cuba. Granma
Policy

'Elections' During Cuba’s Severest Crisis

La Habana

In the 2022 municipal 'elections', the protest vote rose to 38.90% of the electorate, and, in Havana, to approximately 50%.

Cuban Cuban pride.
Cuban Cuban pride. Diario de Cuba
Opinion

Cuban State Budgets: Much Is Taken and Little Is Given

La Habana

Castroism claims to devote 72% of the budget to social spending, but money for education, health and social security is scant. How can this be explained?

Miguel Diaz-Canel speaks at the Russian Duma in November 2022.
Miguel Diaz-Canel speaks at the Russian Duma in November 2022. AP
Politics

Cuba, prostituted, between London and Moscow

La Habana

Castroism is now accelerating the transition from a supposedly socialist dictatorship to a supposedly capitalist one, with Russian counsel and control.

Ruins in Havana.
Ruins in Havana. Diario de Cuba
Emigration

Those who left... are no longer building Cuba

La Habana

More than a quarter of a million Cubans abandoned the island last year, and the vast majority were young people, many of them highly educated.

An FEU demonstration, 2019.
An FEU demonstration, 2019. Trabajadores
Policy

The FEU: from Autonomy to Subordination

La Habana 2

How did an organization that was supposed to guarantee the independence of studies in Cuba end up becoming a body at the service of Castroist repression?