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Dmitri Prieto’s Diary

Dmitri Prieto's Diary 

The New Cuba Says: Kill, God forgives

June 17, 2016 Dimitri Prieto-Samsonov 3 Comments

A small businessman had this sign up on his stand, located on Havana’s Infanta Street. A threatening portrayal of the new Cuban race, a fearful fragment of theology, which inverts St. Augustine de Hippo’s philosopy of “Love and do what you will.”

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Havana to Rock with the Stones on Good Friday

March 25, 2016 Dimitri Prieto-Samsonov 4 Comments

The Rolling Stones are coming. They will play on the night of a holiday, Good Friday. The Cuban State declared this day a holiday four years ago, as a show of respect towards members of the Catholic Church.

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Is Cuba’s Phone Company Celebrating a Pre-Revolutionary Holiday?

May 21, 2015May 27, 2015 Dimitri Prieto-Samsonov 7 Comments

Cuba’s State telecommunications monopoly (ETECSA) has accustomed those of us who use its mobile phone services to expect promotional offers where any purchase of credit over 20 CUC is doubled near socially significant dates, such as Mother’s Day, Saint Valentine’s and Christmas.

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Cuba in the Central American and Caribbean Anarchist Federation

April 22, 2015April 29, 2015 Dimitri Prieto-Samsonov 0 Comments

A new anti-capitalist and anti-authoritarian organization has been created in Latin America: the Central American and Caribbean Anarchist Federation. The federation’s inaugural congress was held in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic.

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Autonomous Cuban Social Researchers Seek Aid in “Puerto Rican Roulette” Process

April 13, 2015April 21, 2015 Dimitri Prieto-Samsonov 6 Comments

How is one to conduct serious research in alternative spaces in Cuba without becoming frustrated in the process? How is one to look for opportunities to converse with colleagues from other countries, without sinking in the quicksand of bureaucracy?

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Should Potatoes in Cuba be Rationed Once Again?

April 1, 2015April 10, 2015 Dimitri Prieto-Samsonov 9 Comments

I try to avoid and evade the lines of people waiting to buy potatoes. The tuber arrives this time of year, during Lent, accompanied by people’s undying potential for standing in line and starting fights with one another, in defiance of all remotely Christian feelings.

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Who Owns Cuba’s Habana Libre Hotel?

March 25, 2015March 31, 2015 Dimitri Prieto-Samsonov 9 Comments

The recent publication of a photo were Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart and Paris Hilton appear together prompted speculation about the return of the Hilton hotel chain to Cuba in the near future. Let’s look at the issue.

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My Take on Assisted Suicide

March 18, 2015 Dimitri Prieto-Samsonov 2 Comments

We tend to surround death with silence, imagining that life is everything, the absolute value, and that its periphery simply does not exist or constitutes a disagreeable or uncomfortable impediment…

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Havana’s Book Fair and the Exclusion of People with Disabilities

March 13, 2015 Dimitri Prieto-Samsonov 0 Comments

It may be advisable to start thinking about a new venue for the book fair that is more inclusive and friendly towards all social groups, where reading is the common denominator.

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The White Males of Cuba’s New Bills

March 6, 2015March 11, 2015 Dimitri Prieto-Samsonov 1 Comment

Last year, my friend, filmmaker Yaima Pardo, brought to my attention how Cuban bills only showed men of war, and how the only black person that appeared on our bills (the 5 peso note) was General Antonio Maceo.

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