In 2016, the day of the presidential elections, when I went out to cross Managua to see with my own eyes the level of abstention that was rumored and saw the voting centers empty, the streets as sleepy as on any Sunday in the city, I began to harbor doubts about my pessimism.
Read MoreWhat happens when in Cuba your life is reduced to silence and solitude because you speak your mind, going against the status quo? Adonis Milan gives his testimony.
Read MoreWe were recently without electricity twice, in 5-day stints. Now, we are experiencing an irregular and insufficient rationing of power, uncertainty growing every day.
Read MoreThese 7 months have served greatly to discover some very sad things in Nicaragua and to give incalculable motives to do our best to change the current system.
Read MoreRents in Havana are through the roof for a Cuban. On Revolico, for example, a rental ad for under 100 CUC isn’t up for longer than an hour before someone takes it, sometimes even in minutes. Looking on any odd day, Tuesday April 2, 2019, for example, you can see that monthly rents for a place range from 80-600 CUC, that’s to say, up to 20 times or more than the average income in this city.
Read MoreThe negotiations between the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship and the Civic Alliance ended last Wednesday without any agreement on the two most important items on the national agenda, endorsed by hundreds of thousands of citizens during the April Rebellion: democratization and justice.
Read More“Portrait of an ever-adolescent artist” (a history of cinema in Cuba), is the most recent documentary by Cuban filmmaker Manuel Herrera, director of Zafiros, Locura azul (1997), Bailando Cha Cha Chá (2004), among his most known titles. A hilarious film, ingenious as its protagonist, the late filmmaker and actor Julio Garcia Espinosa…
Read MoreOrtega was not even able to comply with these initial agreements which would have gvien him credibility while more substantial aspects were negotiated. Just 24 hours later after the agreements were announced, his police and paramilitary forces violently dispersed civilian protesters in one of Managua’s shopping malls.
Read MoreLast Saturday, journalist Eduardo Cedeno Milan gave a news report on Cuban TV about Cuba’s Musical Editions and Recording Company (EGREM), calling it “Cuba’s longest-living recording company”. Stated as an absolute, this phrase enshrines a historic mistake and also testifies to the Party/State’s manipulative campaign, which has spread to most of our national past.
Read MoreIn 2009, Colombian singer Juanes’ “Peace without Borders” concert managed to fill Revolution Square in Havana with Cubans who weren’t there to watch a parade or mass rally, who weren’t there to shout and/or carry pro-Revolution slogans, but were just there to listen to musicians. Among the foreign guests at this concert was the Spanish singer Miguel Bose.
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