People say that when Fidel Castro saw his friend Rene Portocarrero go white as a sheet in the face of a horde of enraged speeches that were taking place at the first National Congress of Education and Culture in 1971, he kindly asked Alfredo Guevara to please get him out of there. I don’t know if this story is true, although I do think it’s likely.
Read MoreLeaving behind city habits for a couple of hours, the kind that consume everyone, leading to stress a lot of the time because of noise and other types of pollution; to immerse yourself kilometers away, where the air is cleaner, the climate is cooler and the surrounding landscape is tinged with the unrivaled colors of a natural landscape… (11 photos)
Read MoreA negotiation or political dialogue between excluding positions is never a process to reach agreements. In an alliance you seek to be in agreement, in a political negotiation you do not. A negotiation defines the limits of the reciprocal interests confronted, in a contradictory and changing reality…
Read MoreOn August 9th, I stared at a summons from the Ministry of Interior on my fridge for my husband Yasser Castellanos, a visual and Hip-Hop artist as well as a Havana Times’ illustrator. Ever since we had joined the “Cuban Artists against Decree-Law 349” campaign, we guessed that this could imply “crossing the line”.
Read MoreIn my 34 years of life I never needed the phrase “Free Country or Death” to protest against a dictatorship. I never imagined that I had to mourn the death of my people fallen in combat; and much less that I had to ask a stranger to let me hide in his house while fleeing from the riot police.
Read MoreSome 3,000 people marched in San Jose, Costa Rica on Saturday against xenophobia and in support of Nicaraguan refugees who are leaving their country in droves due to the political crisis with its massive arrests and extreme violence unleashed by the government of Daniel Ortega.
Read MoreAt least 21 young people, students who are members of the University Coordinator for Democracy and Justice (CUDJ) and three documentary filmmakers, were arrested today by the Nicaraguan police in the department of Carazo.
Read MoreThe impact of the Informative Caravan in Solidarity with Nicaragua, that has travelled through various countries of the European Union, has been slow but significant. Madelaine Caracas explained that little by little the media, human rights organizations and left-wing political parties, opened the door to putting the issue of Nicaragua and the repression of Daniel Ortega’s regime that has cause more than 300 dead on their agenda.
Read MoreFor a while now, “Casa de la Amistad”, which is located on Paseo street between 17th and 19th streets in Havana’s Vedado neighborhood, has been holding a rock jam. The host is rock band La vieja escuela and it invites a different band every Sunday to play between 6 and 10 PM. (10 photos)
Read MoreAccording to the well-known feminist poet, Gioconda Belli, the international community must “act for the good of the Nicaraguans and convince Ortega that in this century there can no longer be tyrants who try to lock a country in a cage and throw the key out to the sea.”
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