We Now Have a Logo? / Rosa María Rodríguez Torrado
These days I am madly happy for the logo that the young Spanish friends Rafa (El Pecas) and El Goyo sent me; they tell me they are graphic designers and own an advertising agency devoted to that...
View ArticleThe Cuban Films at the Festival / Miguel Iturria Savón
When the 32nd edition of the Havana International New Latin American Film Festival opened, I commented on the event’s programme and the expectations by genres, nations and other details of interest,...
View ArticlePlummeting / Rosa María Rodríguez Torrado
The ideas and projects of the eternal rulers of the Cuban government seem to float, trapped in the void of unworkability, and wear us down with their monotony, at the same time they have been falling...
View ArticleAlbear, a Patriot of Construction / Dimas Castellanos
Any nation whose history is full of acts of violence diminishes relevance to figures or events that are removed from this kind of acts. If violence is also promoted as the paradigm of behavior, the...
View ArticleObama Loosens and Castro Squeezes / Antunez
The new recently-approved measures from the North unfortunately only point at—albeit with the best of intentions—oxygenating the dying tyranny of Havana, without providing any benefits to the...
View Article11 Titans, 11 Hopes / Antunez
Librado Linares García, Doctor Oscar Elías Biscet, Ángel Moya Acosta, Diosdado González Marrero, Félix Navarro Rodríguez, Iván Hernández Carrillo, Héctor Maceda Gutiérrez, José Daniel Ferrer García,...
View ArticlePigeon Blisters / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo
THE WAKE OF THE POPULAR PIGEON Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo With no eyes (the preferred organs of sacred sacrifices). With a gag of a stick inserted in her beak (reminiscent metaphor to executions in Cuba)....
View ArticleThis is Not the Novel of the Revolution (7) / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo
(… Chapter 7 …) Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo Dreams of death. Dreams of shit. Political nightmares of statelessness. Close your eyes and open your mind. Crack the skull. Dreaming does not cost anything....
View ArticleFlailing Around in the Dark / Rebeca Monzo
The year has begun, and we see timbiriches* sprouting all over, selling mostly the same products that are sold neighborhood after neighborhood. Necessity has made everyone set up tables outside to...
View ArticleLocal Version of the Revolts / Regina Coyula
Since the Arab world’s popular uprisings began, the average Cuban citizen walks about very confused by the disparity of the accounts of the press and the ones from people who claim they “saw it all...
View ArticleThe Eye Behind the Door / Rosa María Rodríguez Torrado
The eye you see is not the eye because you see it, it is the eye because it sees you. Antonio Machado (Proverbios y Cantares) In Cuba, we often visit homes where their residents hang, on the inside of...
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I Defend My Lawyer / Rene Gomez Manzano
The lawyer Amelia Rodríguez Cala. Photo by Jorge Ignacio Pérez Havana, Cuba, February 2014 – Last week disturbing news circulated throughout the Cuban dissident community: The top permanent body of the...
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The New Robin Hoods (II) / Angel Santiesteban
Granting the wish of Ángel Santiesteban-Prats, who remains unjustly imprisoned, that his voice is not silenced, and while I await for him to find a way to send me his posts, I will be publishing,...
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Open Letter From the MCL to Pablo Iglesias and His Hatred of Cubans / Orlando...
MCL (Movimiento Cristiano Liberación / Christian Liberation Movement) in La Razón: “Mr. Pablo Iglesias, There is Poverty in Cuba and Leftist People are Repressed” How can you deem it a campaign...
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The Eye Behind the Door
The eye you see is not the eye because you see it, it is the eye because it sees you. Antonio Machado (Proverbios y Cantares) In Cuba, we often visit homes where their residents hang, on the inside of...
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