*Por Vicente Morín Aguado El pasado 3 de julio, desde el salón plenario de la Comisión de Derechos Humanos en Ginebra, el Dr. Ariel Ruiz Urquiola, biólogo molecular, exigía justicia: el 25 de junio de 2018 le habían inoculado el virus del SIDA en el hospital provincial de Pinar del Río, registrado con el número …
Malas prácticas médicas, un eficaz instrumento de represión política en Cuba Read More »
* Jaime Suchlicki • Over the past decades hundreds of thousands of Canadian, European, and Latin American tourists as well as Cuban-Americans have visited the island. Cuba is not more democratic today. If anything, Cuba is more totalitarian, with the state and its control apparatus having been strengthened as a result of the influx of …
En esta nueva serie, el Instituto de Estudios Cubanos presenta los cinco presidentes que se ganaron el respeto de los cubanos en la lucha por la libertad de la Patria. Los Presidentes Mambises que sufrieron el rigor de la lucha y las infamias del presidio político y el rigor del exilio. Tomás Estrada Palma (1902-1906); José Miguel …
LA REPÚBLICA DE CUBA: LOS PRESIDENTES MAMBISES (1902-1933) Read More »
* Jaime Suchlicki Cubans can not: • Travel abroad without government permission. • Change jobs without government permission. • Change residence without government permission. • Access the Internet without government permission (the Internet is closely monitored and controlled by the government. Less than 10% of the population has access to the Internet). • Send their children to …
Por: Vicente Morín Aguado. La publicación íntegra del convenio de colaboración médica entre los gobiernos de Argelia y Cuba (mayo pasado, Journal Officiel argelino), ha sacudido la alfombra mágica llamada “colaboración internacionalista”, un negocio de billones de dólares, cuyas primicias ocuparon precisamente este país del noroeste africano. Los herederos de Fidel Castro no han de …
Médicos más militares igual a dólares: la fórmula de supervivencia del castro comunismo. Read More »
* Jaime Suchlicki Despite mounting economic difficulties, the Cuban government is not likely to open up Cuba’s economy or to offer meaningful concessions to the U.S. for normalization of relations. The short-lived period of “normalization” between the U.S. and Cuba under President Obama was characterized by U.S. major concessions – lifting of the travel …
*By Pedro Roig Eduardo Chibás Ribas (1907-1951) is remembered as one of the first Cuban politicians that used radio, modern broadcasting technique, to reach an immense audience. By the 1950s one in five Cubans owned a radio. It was a way of entering in hundred of thousands of homes, and talk directly to the Cubans. Chibás had the …
*By Pedro Roig On August 12, 1933, president-turned dictator, Gerardo Machado escaped from Cuba. In over eight years he had gone from an immensely popular president to an arrogant, greedy, and despised tyrant. In his first term (1925-1928), Machado successfully implemented his campaign promises of a national regeneration. It was a great beginning and a tragic end. On …
GERARDO MACHADO: CUBA’S FIRST TRAGIC POLITICAL MESSIAH Read More »
El 31 de julio es el día de San Ignacio de Loyola, fundador de la Compañía de Jesús, que marca la muerte de quien fue Apóstol de los Evangelios, de la piedad, y el sacrificio en defensa de la fe. San Ignacio es patrono y maestro de los Ejercicios Espirituales concebidos para fortalecer la voluntad, …
LOS MÁRTIRES DE LA AGRUPACIÓN CATÓLICA UNIVERSITARIA (ACU) Read More »
* Jaime Suchlicki The Domestic Scene The limited economic changes introduced by Gen. Raúl Castro in Cuba encouraged some observers to proclaim the end of communism and the dismantling of the totalitarian system in the island. Notwithstanding Raúl Castro’s own statements that he was not elected to restore capitalism, these observers insisted on their belief …
