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Fidel seven years later
The debate around his figure has so many ins and outs that it would be worth returning to them to...
Nation, emigration and beyond
In the last decade, Cuban immigration policy took a radical turn compared to the previous fifty years.
Abortion and reproductive rights, what will the new Public Health Law say?
Abortion is a right always in dispute for which legal protection with sufficient regulatory hierarchy is vital for it to...
Apparentness about the dialogue with emigration
It would not be a bad idea for those who have chosen to live abroad not to assume that those...
To “update” SMEs in Cuba: 7 questions we should ask ourselves
There is nothing better than success to attract the attention, the suspicions, the concerns of the bureaucracy and the fear...
Nation and Emigration: The shores of dialogue
The next chapter of this dialogue occurs in a historical moment that Fidel Castro himself would have described as very...
Principle of uncertainty
Concepts of quantum physics and their application to everyday life unexpectedly led me to think about Cuba.
Bancarization’s obstacles and lessons (not) learned
There is talk of gradualness when the country is really entering a new way of functioning without having gradually adapted...
Cecilia in the heart of Old Havana
Located meters from the main entrance of the Santo Ángel Custodio church, on Compostela Street, she seems to walk slowly...
Of ills and cures for Cuban economy
If all this that is happening and will happen was the result of not having done anything in recent years,...
The Wailing Wall… and the little pieces of paper
Besides prayer, the most popular method is to leave little notes addressed to the Most High.
60 years of “I have a dream”
“There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of...
Visions of who we are
Thousands of kilometers away, “the damn circumstance of water everywhere” continues to mark me.
Pulsing with censorship and other cultural keys of politics
The barometer of our deficiencies is not so much pork as a political culture whose deficits prevent us from thinking...
Racialized women, the lost key in the chest of inequalities
They carry on their backs the weight of their nation’s poverty. Affirmative policies and actions are a must.
Eli says, with Einstein: “Creativity is intelligence having fun”
She landed on this planet in 1992 in Jagüey Grande, as Elaine Piedrafita Santos. But she’s Eli for everyone, Eli...
The lost city and other stories
If one adds idealization and demonization, believing that they are the two halves of an orange, and that this is...
About the “hows” and the “whys”
It is necessary to assume the costs of getting out of debt under the conditions in which our economy and...
“Civil society” or “people” in Cuba? A matter that matters
Is the concept of civil society the most pertinent to explain the existing fields of conflict in Cuba?
On the Yan’an road
I wonder if we Cubans have not been as strange and deviant as the Chinese and Vietnamese.
The Cuban economy and the institutions
Having good institutions is not about having good buildings with many disciplined and obedient homo sapiens, equipped with modern technological...
Let the SMEs produce!
It is said and repeated easily until it becomes a slogan. However, the country's macroeconomic and productive conditions help little...
Migrant mothers: the cross-border territory of care
They also take care from afar. They are maternal, even in the distance. Migrant motherhood is a challenge that many...
The history of algorithm. The “failures” of Artificial Intelligence
AI is only as good as the data it processes. A poorly designed algorithm diffuses bias at scale. Accepting the...
The March of Thousands: Some Considerations on the Incorporation of New Cuban Americans into the South Florida Political Culture
The ideological socialization process that incorporates new migrants into South Florida's uncompromising political culture is relentless. The identity of the...
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