While it is true that education in Cuba is free, the beginning of a new school year makes many families go out looking for school items, which is now customary, and this is no easy feat on the salaries that most workers make.
Read MoreEven though I have written about the possible causes that led to a decree-law being written up which criminalizes art, and even though I have resisted forming part of an entertainment policy which has made Cubans travel along the tree’s branches instead of going directly to the trunk, I must write again about Law #349.
Read MoreCuba’s 2018-2019 academic year began on Monday September 3rd. I hadn’t thought about writing this article, as it’s the same or similar scenes can be seen all over the country every year, and I have never written about this because it is something natural in my eyes and something we have all assumed as an inherent part of our socialist society.
Read MoreDiplomacy is a word that invokes the idea of good relations between countries, and even between people, in contrast to violence, threats and blackmail in order to get the other side to act in a certain way. In the old days, diplomacy didn’t exist. Everything was subject to the law of the jungle…
Read MoreI’ve been indebted to the December 2nd Neighborhood for a while now, which is located in Gelpi, Matanzas province. I arrived in this unfinished neighborhood when I was seven with my parents after a difficult experience which marked all of our lives forever.
Read MoreOn August 9th, I stared at a summons from the Ministry of Interior on my fridge for my husband Yasser Castellanos, a visual and Hip-Hop artist as well as a Havana Times’ illustrator. Ever since we had joined the “Cuban Artists against Decree-Law 349” campaign, we guessed that this could imply “crossing the line”.
Read MoreNow is a good time for Cuban film thanks to the initiatives by Cubans who have managed to pave the way for Cuban film abroad and try to continue developing and offering opportunities to the Seventh Art created on the island, with or without the protection of Cuban Film Laws.
Read MoreHavana was one of Spain’s conquests. The object of its greed and the battleground for the bloodiest of battles, where pirates made their mark, but also left their treasure. It will soon be 500 years old and it isn’t ready for the celebration…
Read MoreThe new law’s legal enforcement will impose fines that state wages can’t pay, punishments to keep violations in check, crimes of Cuban artistic talent. Unprincipled inspectors will whisper proposals into their victims’ ears to defer fines or the seizure of their equipment and/or other assets.
Read MoreCritics of the Cuban Revolution ignore or want to ignore the fact that Cuba (in spite of the blockade for nearly 60 years) has what millions of people in the world want and can’t have because they live in a system where meeting the needs of its people isn’t the most important thing on its agenda.
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