I have the six movies about Rocky Balboa, the legendary and fictitious boxer, played by Sylvester Stallonee. In the third movie, there is a scene where doctors warn Rocky that he shouldn’t […]
Cuba: Our so-called “Revolutionary” Sports
Cuba is Where Reality Beats Fiction
Pinar del Rio city is stirring amid a hive of people who chase after essential items. It’s like New Delhi, Calcutta, Bombay… any one of these Indian cities which we often see […]
Cuba: “When Cubans Change Their Obedient Behavior for Disobedience”
Covid-19 has sent a very clear message, at least to me. The human race has to rethink the way it interacts with its environment. People are talking about the danger Western democracies […]
Cuba Awaits Doctor Duran’s OK to Restart Tourism
The question and its cautious explanation has just been taken on and responded to in part by doctor Francisco Duran Garcia, the national director of Epidemiology, at the Cuban Public Health Ministry, […]
Cuba: Searching for Solutions in Cuba, Even if Only Small Scale
The CubaEmprende project, in collaboration with AUGE (a business consultancy), has published a document with a detailed compilation of the initiatives that numerous private businesses have carried out in recent months to […]
How Cuba Can Rise from the Ashes Post COVID-19?
The urgency of a country on the brink of starvation could condition changes, which the Cuban government has refused up until now. Holding onto this hope, four economists have agreed to answer […]
Covid-19 Hygiene Practices in Cuba
Cuban women and men tell us how they are taking cleaning and self-care measures at home: women overloaded with housework and men overexposed to the virus. For many women like Iliannys Acosta, […]
Cuba’s Agricultural Sector, a Permanent Challenge
When it comes to development, the agricultural sector fulfills several important functions, including providing food to the population, supplying raw materials to the food processing industry, generating foreign exchange through exports, and […]
Here in Cuba We Are Not Ready for COVID-19
The world is going through a tense and difficult time, in China, where the coronavirus outbreak appeared, the infected number is in the tens of thousands and thousands the number of deaths. […]
Cuban Doctors Who Stayed in Brazil, Patience Might Finally Pay Off
“Doctor, today the windows are to cleaned”, “Doctor, this needs washing …” For the owners of the houses where she worked for months doing housework, Idalma was still ‘the Doctor’. She was […]
