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Cuba: If Nothing Happens, Something Will Have to Happen

In the long agony after the collapse of the socialist bloc in Eastern Europe, those still in power in Cuba were forced to shed some weight.

Let’s hope prior to any debate, Cubans, Nicaraguans, Venezuelans & Salvadorans can agree that we’re all suffering under dictatorships.

On September 28, 1960, the Committee for the Defense of the Revolution (CDRs) were founded, and they have just marked another anniversary.

“I’m not good at just asking for money”: one draws, another sings, and the third seeks out foreigners to “practice languages.”

From Raul Castro to Fernandez de Cossío: the same FALSE discourse persists to deny political prisoners and accuse Amnesty International.

Walking through Centro Habana to Old Havana, along the coastline, I have seen walls covered with graffiti and works of urban art (13 photos).

I can say that I have more than once been part of that informal group where we shared complaints about life…

Here we have a woman, an artist in the full splendor of her creativity; she is also a sculptor, designer, photographer, and poet. (10 Photos)

The idea that women were born to be mothers is still generally accepted in Latin American and Caribbean countries.

Melody arrived in Cuba on September 25, on the ninth deportation flight that US immigration authorities have sent to the island this year.