By Circles Robinson
HAVANA TIMES – As I mark off another anniversary, I feel it’s time to ask you, our readers, whether we are in fact providing you with an important service.
This non-commercial journalistic endeavor was originally conceived in Havana in 2008 as a two-or three-year project. The goal at the time was to provide people interested in Cuba with an English language publication concerning different aspects of life on the island. We sought to add voices and opinions absent in the Cuban government media, without excluding the Communist Party’s discourse on the present, past and future of Cuba.
By year two, we were also publishing in Spanish, a demand of the writers themselves who wanted to share their articles with fellow Cubans and others of the Spanish speaking world.
Time flew by, and we are now in our sixteenth year of daily publication. For me personally it has represented around 30% of my adult life. We started out only f
