A brilliant and funny take on the incident in which a woman threw a mango at President Nicolas Maduro’s head to demand a house…and got what she wanted. As John Oliver says, this seems like a “dangerous precedent for the President to set, because now everyone knows that if you want something, write it down on a mango and throw it at his f***ing head!”
Is the Biden administration, despite its legal posturing, content to abdicate some of its responsibilities on the ground and let Operation Lone Star take over?
The greatest gift that Cartes can give the country and President Peña is to empower Peña to take the real and symbolic steps to frontally tackle corruption.
Overall, the move toward more liberal measures appears to be too little too late, despite pressures from Vietnamese and Chinese Communist Party representatives in recent years strongly advising that Cuba undergo free market-oriented reforms.
