
From Havana
Digging into the agricultural sector
The pebble in the shoe
By Manuel Alberto Ramy
Alimentary security – defined as strategic – and farm production are intimately connected. More than one year after Law 259 (a law that distributes land for the usufruct of those who are willing to till it) was enacted, how has the sector progressed?
With this question in mind, I climbed into my car and traveled through some of the Havana municipalities that are key to farm production. I spoke with farmers and specialists, visited farmers' markets and visited the website of the National Statistics Office (ONE).
E-4, or pawn to King 4: A new move by Washington
By Enrique Ubieta Gómez
When is a dialogue false? Is it when the demand for liberty becomes a rhetorical trick to deceive the reader? Whoever attempts to dialogue with Cuba has to jettison all prejudices. Seated across the table would not be "the good guy" and "the bad guy," the big rich interlocutor and the small "needy" one, the one who must change and the one who extends...
Honduran dictatorship is a threat to democracy in the hemisphere
By Mark Weisbrot
From the Sacramento Bee
A small group of rich people who own most of Honduras and its politicians enlist the military to kidnap the elected president at gunpoint and take him into exile. They then arrest thousands of people opposed to the coup, shut down and intimidate independent media, shoot and kill some demonstrators, torture and beat many others. This goes on for more than four months, including more than two of the three months legally designated for electoral campaigning. Then the dictatorship holds an “election.”
Obama, Cuba and lost hopes
When in April 2009 at the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad he first tried out his presidency and the promise of rapprochement towards Latin America, and Obama listened patiently to the calls from almost every nation of the area for lifting of the embargo on Cuba and normalizing relations between the two neighbors, the hopes of many on the island were multiplied.Click to continue reading...
By Leonardo Padura Fuentes


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Hunger in America: Shame of a Nation
By Max J. Castro
What happens when a brutal recession strikes a nation that has been busy shredding its socioeconomic safety net for a quarter century? The result is an enormous toll of human misery and deprivation.
The real price of oil
By Saul Landau
From my window in Alameda overlooking San Francisco Bay, I watch hundreds of men and women in white suits, some with masks, busily uprooting slimy sea plants and gently grabbing birds with feathers coated in black grease.






The Cuban bloggers are the world's most famous. I refer to the “dissidents,” of course, because the first idea that they try to convey is that there are no others.
This is an extremely complex topic, all the more so on the island because access to the Internet and its use have been politicized by the opponents of the Cuban government. At the same time, the Internet has become one of the many instruments used by the government of the United States to project its foreign policy and influence the internal processes of other world nations.
By Bill Press






If Lewis Carroll had been around today and living in Miami, and he had yet to write his Alice in Wonderland, his resulting story, if based on our city, may have been even stranger and more nonsensical than it already is. Alice and her white rabbit, Mad Hatter and Cheshire cat would have had little over some of our zany politicians -- and their crazy stories.














