When I think about Cuba, I often ask myself “What does Cuba mean to me?” Cuba means my heritage, my culture, my roots and my connection to my Papi. My Papi passed away on February 9, 2001 at 1 am in the morning. I remember that day precisely because I woke up in a cold sweat feeling out of body completely.
Read MoreThrough the smoke of the rebellion in April, which the Government of Ortega-Murillo went “all out” to squash, a friend asked me: What is this regime like after the repression? Ortega may not resemble Stalin, but the repression and punishments of these last eight months have had the same result and have been executed with the same rage as the Stalinist purges.
Read MoreGiven the time elapsed and the magnitude of the crimes of the Ortega regime, described in the report of the GIEI, comments are heard in different environments that we are heading towards the situation of Venezuela, a country in which the protests petered out in spite of the growing crisis, and Maduro is getting ready to “assume” a new 6-year presidential term after staging an electoral circus.
Read MoreThe year 2018 came to an end and Cuba hadn’t make any significant progress. The economy is still stagnant and there aren’t any real chances that it will take off if we continue down the path we’re being led down.
Read MoreI recently reread a story that shows how the current tragedy in Nicaragua has been brewing for many years. The news refers to the repression unleashed against farmers opposed to the infamous Canal Law 840, which for them, and in the light of any minimal intelligence, is just the legal veil with which the regime sought to disguise the plundering of the country’s natural resources and betray its much-vaunted nationalism.
Read MoreEven though the Havana Film Festival ended on December 16th, you can still see lines outside Havana’s movie theaters. This is because El Regreso (The Return), the directorial debut by Cuban actress Blanca Rosa Blanco, is being premiered. The film was also screened during the Festival.
Read MoreA few days ago, I published a Facebook post on my profile asking my writer friends for three advantages of Decree-Law 349 for Cuban authors.
Read MoreMy brother Ricardo tells me that some 70% of those imprisoned come from Sandinista roots, and probably the same thing is true of the murdered. That’s not really strange, according to my thinking, because true Sandinismo taught us to fight against injustices, and nothing is more unjust and criminal than the regime of Ortega and Murillo, that we’re still enduring.
Read MoreThey hadn’t been given anything. Floorboard on top of floorboard, brick upon brick, Esteban and his family built that house in Montequin, Pinar del Rio. Or better yet, hurdles were placed in their way and whatever could be taken from them was taken, because they had declared that they were Jehovah Witnesses in 1959, and (as we know) in the frenzied and beautiful early years of the bearded Revolution, that was like calling yourself a criminal, social scourge, scoundrel.
Read MoreThe 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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