Cuban authorities allowed the Swedish citizen Jens Aron Modig to speak to the foreign press to explain what he was doing in Cuba and how the accident occurred in which dissidents Oswaldo Paya and Harold Cepero were killed.
Read MoreCuba’s National Council for the Performing Arts, an institution under the Ministry of Culture, gave its support to the cultural project “Opera in the Street,” which was recently questioned and punished by some political and administrative bodies on the island.
Read MoreCuba’s Ministry of Interior issued a formal report on the investigation of the accident that killed two opposition figures, one of whom was Oswaldo Paya Sardinas, the leader of the Christian Liberation Movement, the largest dissident group in the country.
Read More“They came in at 10 o’clock at night, interrupted the show and created confusion among the audience. It was a fascist approach that had nothing to do with the principles that I, the general population and the president believe in. Just three days before he had argued for the need for a change in people’s mentality.”
Read MoreThe island’s economic reforms are now in their fourth year, but they seem to have left more than one Cuban dissatisfied. People consider them too slow, shallow, lacking integrity and — above all — there’s no feeling that these have improved their lives substantially.
Read MoreI met Oswaldo Paya in the early 90’s when he was an active Catholic layman, to the point that we would meet at churches. I can’t say how many times we met since then, but there were many.
Read MoreCarilda Oliver Labra, Cuba’s most popular and most erotic poet, just turned 90. During her life she stirred up much controversy with the content of her poems, which dealt with how she has faced her own life, love, marriage and sex.
Read MoreOn Thursday, 5,694 young people from 59 countries in Latin America, Asia and Africa in Cuba received their diplomas certifying them as doctors. The last time I was at that international school, I ran into everyone from a Uruguayan compatriot of mine drinking mate to a young Mongolia woman washing her clothes.
Read MoreThe Customs law that goes into effect in September is one that will have the most social impact, since in one way or another it will affect the majority of Cubans, making everyday life a little more difficult and a lot more expensive.
Read MoreIt’s not common to see a group of blind people lining up to go to the movies, but Cubans are beginning to get used to it. Once a month there’s special function for people who are blind or otherwise visually impaired, and soon these events will also include people with hearing difficulties.
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