I went to Cuba after it reopened – here’s what you need to know Flying is the easy part. As of mid-December 2020, there are over a dozen flights a day between the US and Havana departing from the Florida cities of Miami, Tampa, and Fort Lauderdale. Operating airlines include Read more
Let’s imagine for a moment that there were three parties in Cuba, named the Renewed Socialism Party, the Cuban Revolutionary Party and the Fidelista Party. Let’s imagine that the three of them went to elections and governed according to popular vote, with platforms dedicated to the construction of a socialism Read more
It seems obvious that you can’t look ahead without noticing where you are, and what is around you. In the Cuban case, this exploration is equivalent, as Rubén Matínez Villena would say, to an “exercise of brave discipline” to overcome the avalanche of perorations, opinions and counter-opinions that saturate the Read more
Where did one of the architects of President Kennedy’s main program for Latin America, godfather of baptism from the Alliance for Progress, come from in 1961? In what hands did Ronald Reagan (1981-88) and George W. Bush (2001-2008) place their most important offices for the western hemisphere: those that coordinated the Read more
“Cuban blacks look directly into the eyes of whites,” noted an impressed North American visitor in 1907: “For the American in his country, considering black as an equal in social, political, or even labor terms is an affront, an offense, at least; for the Cuban, no. This is because [the black in Read more
One year after the centenary of the ILO was celebrated, Cuba as a founding country, presented its experiences in labor protection during this stage of confronting the new coronavirus pandemic. Labor measures adopted in Cuba before COVID-19 In Cuba, various measures were adopted to prevent and confront COVID-19, from the Read more
Cubans can confess ignorance in epidemiology or meteorology, but not about Cuba-United States relations. Perhaps nothing brings them so together on the same side―including those who don’t agree with the system―as that historical tension between a North that has sought to prevail at all costs, and a country determined not Read more
Elian Gonzalez, the Cuban boy whose custody case sparked diplomatic tensions and attracted intense media coverage, will soon be a father himself, he announced on Facebook on Sunday. Gonzalez, 26, made the announcement on Father’s Day and said his own father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, who brought him back from the Read more
Jean Kennedy Smith, the last surviving sister of President John F. Kennedy and a former ambassador to Ireland, died on Wednesday, her daughter confirmed to The New York Times . Smith died at her Manhattan home and was 92 years old. Smith was the eighth of the nine children of Joseph and Rose Read more
The Central Bank of Cuba (BCC) issued a resolution that allows the island’s non-residents to open bank accounts in U.S. dollars, to buy in stores created by the government since last October that sell products in this currency. Sources from the legal section of the BCC explained to OnCuba by Read more
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