In March of 2019, at almost 80 years since the prison, torture, persecution and exile, and 59 years since the death of my father, now, under the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, the same painful ordeal have been experienced by thousands of victims of the injustices of power.
Read MoreAmnesty #53 is going to arrive proposing pardon and forgetting in the name of peace and reconciliation for both sides; I’ll pardon these terrorists who came to interrupt the paradise that my wife and I were building, but you must forgive me the acts of barbarity that I, my accomplices and my partners have committed.
Read MoreThe Mayari, Holguin ice factory is just one of many factories that have fallen into disrepair in this city of northeastern Cuba. The building has been in ruins for over two decades and different organizations that bought its production, as well as customers from the general population, are in need of ice.
Read MoreAs many know, during the ongoing Maduro crisis, both sides of the aisle attempted to dialogue with the purported goal of finding a peaceful solution. The premise, of course, was that the dialogue was the only acceptable alternative because otherwise Venezuela would spiral into more violence. Venezuela’s reality is very close to Nicaraguan reality.
Read MoreIt has always been said that Cuba is a traveling museum, due to all the cars from the 1950s that still move through our streets. For more than two decades, these relics contributed a part of the urban transportation that responds to the service of private collective taxis.
Read More“How much did they pay you for serving the murderers and condemning the innocent?” writes the dentist and merchant Irlanda Jerez from prison to the judge that sentenced her and numerous other protestors to long prison sentences.
Read MoreVivir del cuento is perhaps the most popular “made in Cuba” TV show that my fellow Cubans on the island watch. In one of its most recent episodes, Panfilo (this old man who struggles with Cuba’s shortages today) has found a wallet. Taking a peek, Panfilo is more excited about finding a whole strip of duralgina tablets than a large sum of money in euros. Read why…
Read MoreIt’s 9 pm and I am on the street, pacing up and down, holding a dog. His name will be Percy but neither of us know it yet. He’s gravely sick with distemper virus and in a comatose state, mucous dripping from his eyes and nose. I had noticed him in Havana’s most picturesque park where tour guides, horse carts and street dogs jostle for the attention of tourists.
Read MoreLast Thursday, under the protest of the student movement, the Civic Alliance rejoined negotiations with the Ortega dictatorship, with the Vatican’s representative as a witness, when the Organization of American States conditioned its participation as international guarantor of the Dialogue under the condition of the release of all the political prisoners.
Read MoreThe Cuban countryside is in crisis. In spite of its vast potential and still being one of the country’s greatest treasures, it doesn’t yield what it should or can. The Communist government’s failed economic model prevents its development and efficiency, like a straitjacket.
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