The fuel crisis is not due to a “critical juncture”
Just as Cuba’s “special period” in the 1990s pondered the possibility of “option zero” (zero oil), the communist country’s nascent “special period II” is shaping up some kind of “option zero-II “. This time, not because...
The European Union in Cuba: cash is the one thing that counts
In December 2016, the European Union (EU) signed a political dialogue and cooperation accord with the government of Cuba to replace the “common position” that since 1996 conditioned any progress in the bloc’s relations with the island to some...
The “University Professorships for Revolutionaries” policy will impoverish higher education in Cuba
The expulsion, last July, of Professor Omara Ruiz Urquiola from the Superior Institute of Design (ISDi), a branch of the University of Havana, could well be the prelude to a new ideological purge by Miguel Diaz-Canel’s government, which might end impoverishing the...
SNET: THE “WILD COLT” THAT SCARED CUBA’S REGIME
When the Castro brothers’ favorite repressor Ramiro Valdés stated in 2007 that the Internet was like a “wild colt that must be tamed” he implied that the dictatorship would never allow Cubans to freely connect to History’s latest technological...