Author: Dimitri Prieto-Samsonov

On YouTube it looks like a porn movie. “But who cares! – they’re Arabs. Those are their customs…” (as was thought in 1994 in Rwanda: “They’re only a few African tribes going at it”).

The videos that show what appears to be Gadhafi being lynched are impressive, and they’re sickening. A human being who is slaughtered is a human being who is slaughtered, even if they were a serial killer.

The last time my brother came to Cuba with his family from Russia, we went to see some friends of the family out here in Santa Cruz. Once at their home, my little Russian niece saw a turkey for the first time in her life.

When I go down the street and look up, what I see are dogs. Up to now I haven’t seen any of them jump on anybody, leaping from the roof to the sidewalk. If I’d have seen that, I’d be afraid of those dogs barking from above. But I never have.

The heralded tabloid sized pamphlet “Customs norms that all travelers should know” went on sale a few days ago at Cuban newsstands and post offices. The customs tabloid “flew out the door” in a few days.

One of the recent court cases revolving around corruption and the embezzlement of government resources involved people who worked at the Havana airport and in the modern bio-pharmacy industry.

One of the new changes that took place with the recently ended summer was the elimination of the involvement of Cuban students in rural labor over their vacation months.

The essence of the matter is that all “self-employed workers” will now be able to hire employees (wage-laborers). Previously, only those who carried out a few specific occupations were authorized to do this.

Recently an unsuspected medium appeared in Cuba for explaining the meaning of anarchism and its organizational principles. That does indeed take some explaining since little is known about this “exotic” theme here on the island.

There was a typically English current of the art that flourished during the Victorian epoch (in the 19th century); it was in the middle of the effervescent capitalism of the industrial revolution. It was the pre-Raphaelesque current.