Author: Lynn Cruz

It’s upsetting to see how many Cubans support Trump’s suffocating policy. Cubans abroad looking at us with the same ice-cold stare the US gov. does.

Cubans might talk about international politics fluently and in a detached manner, but when it comes for us to analyze our own conflict…

I have always heard that substitution is a characteristic of underdevelopment. I am more aware of this condition right here in Cuba than I normally am.

After 13 days of a sustained campaign on social networks and the independent press, Cuban performance artist Luis Manuel Otero was released.

It was May 1, 2017 when a Cuban, Daniel Llorente, emerged from out of the large crowd in Havana’s Revolution Square, waving a US flag.

It catches my attention that, one of the goals of the film is to show the anti-imperialism of children, the topic of greatest interest of its director.

Gagging this group of artists, in a country that is visibly old, is like cutting the shoots off a tree, which will end up half-rotten or dead.

Those agents intimidating Javier, in the calmest way, stuck in my head for hours. It’s clear that they have been given this power.

The recorded interrogation of an artist reveals the thinking of the Cuban government authorities regarding “illegal” art and artists.