The recent changes implemented by Cuba’s government (i.e., domestic appliances, cars, cell phones, and hotels now accessible to the populace) although positive, they do not go to the root of economic, social and political problems facing the country, writes Pedro Anibal Riera Escalante in La Nueva Cuba.

Riera Escalante under the cover of Cuban consul, was chief of Cuba’s Intelligence Center in Mexico City  in the 1990s where he was sent to surveil and penetrate Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operations in Central America. Years later, Riera Escalante was involved in an incident, which turned into an international scandal. Believing that he was going to defect in Mexico, the Cuban regime ordered operatives to kidnap Riera bringing him to Cuba in less than 24 hours with cooperation of Mexico’s government. In Cuba, Riera served years in prison, and was later set free.

Riera emphasizes:

While dissidents and opposition are not permitted to have access to the press, these measures, do not really constitute a democratic opening in the country.

Might this point of view be the growing mindset of a faction within Cuba’s intelligence apparatus acknowledging Cuba’s political state through Riera’s written voice?

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General Rafael del Pino wrote an op-ed in today’s El Nuevo Herald, where he examines the turnaround in U.S. policy toward North Korea and its application to Cuba.

(H/T: The Cuban Triangle)

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Penúltimos Días refers to a report published in “El Nuevo País” about the fusion between the governments of Venezuela and Cuba.

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