Guinness Record / Lilianne Ruíz
The socialist State does not provide the luxury of silence, because it is in silence that our desires speak to us. Such that the State doesn’t cease the liturgy of remembering all the successive years...
View ArticlePraise for the Cowardly / Wendy Iriepa and Ignacio Estrada
Havana has carried out a process of appropriation of post-Marxist nationalism, through a nearly mystic cult of the figure Jose Marti, at the same time attempting the depoliticization of writers and...
View ArticleCuba: You Can Buy A House / Iván García
The worst of the timid reforms of General Raul Castro is amnesia. In addition to the cynicism. All the prohibitions, whether it is sightseeing in your own country, having a cell phone, buying a car or...
View ArticleSocialist Legality / Lilianne Ruiz
Lourdes Esquivel, Lady in White, was also detained in the jails of the Santiago Station of Vegas last October 14. When she left her house, 20 men — at least those whom she could count — threw...
View ArticleXXI / Rosa Maria Rodriguez Torrado
Infinity is but a sleeping eight that will soon awaken. Translated by: Boston College Cuban-American Student Association (BC CASA) October 18 2012 Tweet
View ArticleGenesis of Today / Rosa Maria Rodriguez Torrado
They say that God created the world in six days, but the truth was that to have a palpable vision of his creation, he created a first draft. I don’t know how someone could have let this occur because...
View ArticleEstado de Sats Enveloped in Venemous Spines / Anddy Sierra Alvarez
Like every other citizen, the invitation to the Estado de Sats is taken with enthusiasm, in order to take part in a work of illumination dealing with human development, both spiritual and socially....
View ArticleTraveling on Astro on the Kaftro Route / Rebeca Monzo
About a month ago, my friend, Mariana, her husband and her mom decided to go on a trip to Trinity through a tourist bus company called Astro. They were very excited about the trip and expected it to go...
View ArticleTempering News, Absorbing Shocks / Rosa Maria Rodriguez Torrado
The case of Angel Carromero Barrios rapidly lost relevance because of the “atmospheric pressure” of the State. Like a tropical meteorological event, its great intensity dissipated in the mediating and...
View ArticleYour Beer Here! / Rosa Maria Rodriguez Torrado
It seems like a silent cry, a clandestine invitation to beer drinking amid signs of drunkenness, not of admiration. The thirsty passer-by—child or adult—cannot easily sample a soft drink or a little...
View ArticleOur Great Challenge / Antonio Rodiles #Cuba
The arbitrary arrest of the lawyer Yaremis Flores on November 7 was followed by two waves, one repressive, taken to the extreme by the regime against numerous activists of civil society, and the other,...
View Article2012-2013 School Year: Student Dead, Assasinated and Judgment Escaped / Dora...
Someday the sun will shine In my backyard… The Shining by Stephen King In the clear air it seems that imagination comes alive, leaving the reins of reason. Every day, Raisa Medina sees her son return...
View ArticleBelieve it or Not / Esperanza Rodriguez Bernal #Cuba
As mentioned in previous works, the most common cases that come to the Law Association for help relate to the subject of housing. It is interesting to note that most of the people that come to us for...
View ArticleStigmatized Youth / Amado Calixto Gammalame #Cuba
One of the problems that often confronts young people, although not exclusive to this segment of the population, is the social rejection to which men and women who have been sentenced for some crime...
View ArticleTest and Menta / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo
Testament of a Figurehead Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo Standing, naked, with eyes burned by the tears and the Cuban nights passed without blinking a damn eye. Or blinking, but jumping from nightmare to...
View ArticleRecycling Language / Rosa Maria Rodriguez Torrado #Cuba
In the decades of the ’60s and in the ’70s, leaving the country was a journey with no return, which for many represented losing one’s family forever. Therefore, the goodbyes were more traumatic,...
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A Teacher Rapist in a System of Ostriches / Juan Juan Almeida
This past October 21st, Dario Alejandro Escobar, a cuban resident on the island and graduate student in journalism recently published an article on his blog “Un Guajiro Ilustrado“, controversial...
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Ode to the Bag / Regina Coyula
(Facebook picture from my friend Elena Madan that I love and posted without authorization, but with confidence) There are decisions that for some may be insignificant but this one that I finally got...
View ArticleAntonio Castro, or the Diplomacy of Baseball / Ivan Garcia
Antonio Castro, son of the bearded man who governed Cuba for 47 years and nephew of the president hand chosen by his brother, told U.S. channel ESPN, “I don’t think it’s a bad thing that our baseball...
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The Longest Roadway / Fernando Damaso
Calzada 10 de Octubre, Havana The Calzada de Jesús del Monte (Jesus of the Mountain Roadway), now known as the Calzada de Diez de Octubre (Tenth of October Roadway), begins at Esquina de Tejas (Texas...
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