Monologo de la Presidenta (“A Monologue by Madam President”), a one-act play and testimony by Juan Carlos Cremata, has been circulating around the Internet since last week. The piece offers details of the meeting where the film and theater director was informed that his play El rey se muere (“The King is Dying”), an adaptation of Romanian-French playwright Eugene Ionoesco’s work, was being censored.
Read MoreIn a Democracy Now! and Pacifica Radio Archives exclusive, we air a newly discovered recording of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. On December 7, 1964, days before he received the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, King gave a major address in London on segregation, the fight for civil rights and his support for Nelson Mandela and the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa.
Read MoreLeonel Ramos Castillo didn’t know he would soon be risking his life. He ran into extortion attempts everywhere he went. A niece of his had sent him money from Texas through Western Union.
Read MoreCuban native Otto Macias is a former combat infantryman who fought in the Vietnam War in the ‘60s before returning to the United States, his adopted homeland. But in 1981, with no notice, the Department of Veterans Affairs abruptly cut off his benefits.
Read MoreDavid is 21 and studying economics at the University of Havana. On weekends, when he heads back home in Batabano (in the province of Mayabeque), he works as a street vendor, selling produce. “My parents earn regular salaries. Do you think that you can support someone who’s going to university with 500 pesos a month?” he says, explaining how he and his grandfather decided to pool their savings and buy a cart to sell produce.
Read MoreLeonel Ramos Castillo is asking himself whether he left Ithaca or Troy. While Odysseus sailed a thousand kilometers down the Aegeus on his way home, this Cuban traversed six times this distance, crossing the whole of Central America to reach the far-off destination of Austin, Texas.
Read MoreFollowing the debacle of finishing fourth in medals at the Toronto Pan-American Games, Cuban sports look to the Olympic Games to be held in Rio de Janeiro from August 5 to 21 this year with some reservations.
Read MoreAfter a big success with the 2015 Havana Times Photo Contest, in which 191 readers participated, we are happy to announce the 8th edition of the event, one for each year of our online publication. Read on to see how you can participate.
Read MoreAs part of the series of interviews with historical figures of Castro’s revolution that Cuba’s Round Table program has been holding, Commander Guillermo Garcia Frias, the first farmer to join the detachment of combatants that would later become the Rebel Army, spoke of his experiences on Cuban television.
Read MoreCuba’s liberalization process is so “open” it hasn’t even set up a consumer defense office to protect citizens. If someone wishes to complain, they must do so at the very company that scammed them.
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