Repercussions of the San Isidro Movement Protest in Cuba
The great events that mark political change in humanity’s history often haven’t been determined by organizations or sophisticated programs.
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Haroldo Dilla
Cuban Historian and Writer Moreno Fraginals
Moreno Fraginals recently celebrated his first centenary. I say the first, because he left works that make him present today.
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Cuba’s Vaccine and the Trivialization of Progress
Haroldo Dilla writes on Cuba’s Vaccine and the Trivialization of Progress. “The vaccine was made in a bubble of state-of-the-art technology.”
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What Was Eusebio Leal Really Loyal To?
Leal knew the cogs of the system and used them well. To do this, he had to bite his tongue on some things, but lots of us did…
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When Stupidity and Disgrace Take Over Cuban Universities
Cuba’s vice-minister of further education, Martha del Carmen Mesa Valenciano, is one of those people who the world would thank for remaining anonymous and silent.
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Cuba has a New Constitution that was Born Old
On February 24th, Cuba’s new Consitution was voted in, and as always in post-revolutionary politics, it was without any surprises and had a predictable outcome. This is the third constitution to be born in the nation’s life as a Republic (ever since 1902), and the second ever since the Revolution triumphed in 1959.
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Constitutional Referendum: Vote NO!
On February 24th, the Cuban people will be waiting for the voting results. I mean to say the results of the vote of every Dolby jury at the Academy Awards to select the year’s winners. Later, they will learn the result of the constitutional referendum that took place that day.
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Does the Cuban Revolution Exist Today?
Ever since the 1990s, when Cuba seemed to sink into a great economic depression, at least a dozen chronicles (books written by travelers who discover something and then describe it in subtle terms) have been written about the end of what is called the “Cuban Revolution”.
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Cuba: Diaz Canel’s Unfortunate Tweets
The warning that children shouldn’t play with dangerous objects should be whispered into President Diaz-Canel’s ear because of how he’s been using Twitter. He frequently makes mistakes, like when he wrote, in true biblical style, that “man does not live by bread alone” when Cuba was in the middle of a bread shortage.
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Why is the Struggle of Cuba’s Cultural Activists So Important?
Someone once said that Cubans either don’t make it or go too far, and they do both with an arrogance that illustrates our historic aspirations of greatness. This is what is happening now with the protests against Decree 349, which has been led by a group of dissident artists (in the best sense of the term) who are standing up to the repressive cultural policy that this decree promotes.
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