Tourism experts should add a new reason to their vast portfolio for why people in Cuba want to travel abroad: quite simply to sort out consular papers and suitcases so they can leave, almost always for good.
Read MoreI have a good friend who I always used to enjoy sharing things with, as long as we didn’t talk about politics. We agreed that we would do our best not to talk about the subject because we didn’t know how to have a calm and healthy conversation about it, and whenever we did, we ended up feeling resentful for a little while.
Read MoreDaniel Ortega must cease his persecution of journalists and the campaign of intimidation and threats against the media. He must order the State to suspend the acts of confiscation against Confidencial and 100% Noticias, return the stolen property, and compensate those affected.
Read MoreI still remember that morning of the first day of the school year, in September 1986. I felt good, waiting for the bus that would take me to the junior high boarding school (7th-9th grade) in the Sandino municipality, over 80 kms from my home, in Pinar del Rio province as well.
Read More“God helps those who help themselves”, is the title of a collection of proverbs that Carlos Monsivais published as a book. The Ortega government has brought to light their own version of helping yourself, passed on Saturday, June 8th, in the form of a new parliamentary initiative: the amnesty law.
Read MoreI write this as a loser in the Great Cruise Ship Wars in my hometown Key West, Florida— Havana’s sister city to the north. I have witnessed first-hand the virtual destruction of this once-peaceful (if somewhat quirky) island paradise in the turbulent wake of cruise ships.
Read MoreWith his self-amnesty, Ortega admits the dictatorship’s responsibility for the massacre. In doing so, he can’t erase his own responsibility as Supreme Police Chief, nor that of the perpetrators of these crimes against humanity, because according to international law justice for such crimes cannot be proscribed.
Read MoreIn the middle of my silence, I saw myself one afternoon narrating in some old papers the great tragedy that we have witnessed in Nicaragua. I am going to tell it to you in these two illustrations I did with acrylic paint, graphite pencil and charcoal.
Read MoreAs I was scrolling through Facebook the other day, I came across the above image, and it instantly struck a chord within me. Created and shared by the Cuban American National Foundation, the picture depicts one of Havana’s five-star hotels with a view of the capitol, which stands in stark contrast to the impoverished surroundings endured by the average Havana resident just a few blocks away.
Read MoreThere is a very high recurrence of cancer in Mayari, which doesn’t seem normal at all. And, there aren’t any leads for people to investigate. On the Internet, I only found out that it figures among the 72 municipalities classified with a Risk I level, of higher incidences, and that Holguin province is above the national average (and surely the global average) and is on the rise.
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