Author: Yenisel Rodriguez

Efforts around Critical TV in Cuba

The TV programs Huron Azul and Clip Punto cu are part of a small number of cultural programs that are struggling to reintroduce a socio-cultural critique into discourse on Cuban television.

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Electronic Romance for Cuban Couples

Nowadays, “caller paying” equals see how much I love you. Assuming the full cost of a telephone call [in Cuba both the caller and receiver normally pay] is also a good way of showing affection to one’s partner.

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I.D.U.S.A. and the Utopians

“Yes, freedom is something else, something very delicate; something that can complicate things. And these are moments of survival. My life project is to subsist.” That’s the opinion of Martin, an acquaintance of mine who proudly demonstrates the success of his private business.

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Oblivious to Nature’s Orange

A definitive break with our perceptiveness occurs when our childhood ends. Teenage yearnings for adulthood leave little space for the same heightened sensitivities that flourished in our childhood.

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A Case of Failed State Intervention

In 1961 the revolutionary government took control over what was the largest agricultural market in the capital and the country, popularly known as the “Mercado de Cuatro Caminos”. The results were not so good.

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Make the Foreigners Get Up

Last week on the train coming from of San Jose de las Lejas, which connects the new province of Mayabeque with the capital city, an incident of xenophobia occurred.

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Paying for Cleats

To make it as a baseball player demands major economic sacrifices by the families of young Cubans. Only a few of those families are able to assist economically over the 10 years of high-performance sports training, meaning that talent alone is no longer enough to make it to the Cuban big leagues.

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