Monthly Archives: April 2012

These days, officially marking the fiftieth anniversary of the creation of the Union of Young Communists, in numerous acts of its leaders they have repeated ad nauseam that the youth vanguard’s mission is to maintain the sovereignty and independence of … Continue reading →

Archive To criticize, a verb that was absent from the national press for too many years, in recent time, times of the actualization of the model, has appeared in some media, although in a rather moderate way. Here and there, … Continue reading →

Central Headquarters – Archive The Cuban Telephone Company or Compañía Cubana de Teléfonos, as it was known by  Cubans, was an American company, with well-paid employees and technicians that offered and guaranteed phone service across the country, as a monopoly. … Continue reading →

Photo: Rebeca I am not going to write about the magnificent John Grisham novel of the same title. My intermediary corresponds to one of the dictionary definitions, the one that defines him as the mediator between the producer and consumer. … Continue reading →

In these southern lands characters abound who seem right out of One Hundred Years of Solitude, the famous novel by Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The terrible thing is, unlike in the novel, they become ministers and even presidents. One … Continue reading →

Photo: Peter Deel Citizens who have opted for self-employment in both rural and urban areas, in addition to the problems of a start-up, have had to face the plague of State inspectors (Comprehensive Monitoring, it is called) which, like a … Continue reading →

Archive In Cuba, the news aired by international agencies, is not directly disclosed to the public in its original form, but passed through a, ideological sterilization process, where it is stripped of everything that the authorities consider harmful or counterproductive. … Continue reading →

When a political personality, in the exercise of power, is fired from or retires from his job, to refer to his opponents or whoever does not share his ideas or opinions, to use insults, disrespect, derogatory adjectives, taunts, insults, rudeness … Continue reading →

In an article published about central Uruguay (before Jatibonico, Cuba) it states that: despite its backward technology, occupies the first rung on the country’s sugar contest. I do not understand what it means to occupy the first rung, as the … Continue reading →