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On The Crisis of Cinema

It’s becoming more and more difficult to find a movie I like these days. Comedies – at least the kind of US comedies we get here – seem only to compete in terms of vulgar, obscene and scatological jokes.

The Weapon of Disinformation in Cuba

Once again, I was able to see how the government manages to keep people quiet and prevent them from questioning their predicament or demanding their rights. This isn’t accomplished at gunpoint, no. They use a different weapon: disinformation.

The Painful Silence on the Cubans Stuck in Costa Rica

The situation of nearly two thousand Cubans who are stranded in Costa Rican territory is not news to virtually anyone. It’s not worth talking about whose to blame, but if I did, I would have put my name first on the list…

Leandro Soto’s New Exhibition at Havana’s La Acacia Gallery

Cuban visual artist Leandro Soto (Cienfuegos, 1956), renowned performer who left the country during the Special Period exodus, returns to us with the beguiling aura of a gypsy. (6 photos)

A Man of Honor

After the triumph of the revolution, rebel officials and combatants were assigned to different posts according to rank, under the same structures that had characterized the rural and other police units of previous governments.

Cleverness vs Hard-headedness: My Fate at Stake

It’s very stressful to head out in the morning, not knowing whether you’ll end up in a cell that day. I like to confront life’s challenges with realism but, on several occasions, I caught myself fantasizing about…

Peter Turnley Photography at Cuban Fine Arts Museum

On November 13, the Cuban National Fine Arts Museum hosted the opening of a solo exhibition by US photographer Peter Turnley, internationally recognized for his work on the reality of the human condition. (20 photos)

Raul Castro’s Visit to Mexico Suggestive of Cuba’s New Course

At the beginning of the month, Raul Castro visited Mexico as part of Cuba’s search for broader international markets, a process he and those who follow him in Cuba’s entrepreneurial and military spheres are currently involved in.

A Gay Republic of Cuba

One of the many things that surprised me in my short visit to Mexico City is the freedom with which homosexuals express their love for one another in public. It’s common to see homosexual men and women holding hands on the street or kissing each other on the lips out in the open.

A Silent but Eloquent Video Showing Cuban Police Brutality

Whenever acts of police brutality take place in other corners of the world, Cuban television wastes no time to show us the images. They don’t seem to know, or pretend not to know, that police brutality exists in Cuba as well.