“El ultimo pais” (The last country) is the latest movie from filmmaker Gretel Marin. “What seemed to be a trip back to my country at a time of change, ends up being an inner journey, between contradictions and doubts about my identity as a Cuban,” Marin writes in her synopsis.
Read MoreThere’s no doubt that the story of independent artists and writers in Cuba today resembles that of Jose Marti. There are many people who believe that saying anything about what is happening with Art in our country won’t change a thing. To all of those people, I would like to say that remaining silent in the face of injustice makes them accomplices.
Read MoreDaniel Ortega has achieved what neither Putin, nor climate change, nor China, nor the immigration problem, nor Maduro nor Syria could do: he inspired nothing more and nothing less than the adoption of a bipartisan consensus between the US Republican and Democratic parties regarding his regime.
Read MoreAny definition of the substantive cruelty that you know, will lead you inevitably to think about the behavior and feelings of the dictatorial couple Ortega-Murillo, and to imagine how, during the last bloody seven months, they have enjoyed ordering the repression first, and contemplate the suffering of others afterwards.
Read MoreA part of the group “Cuban Artists against Decree-Law 349” had organized to meet at Yanelys’ house at 2 PM on November 22nd, to go and meditate in a public space for art and freedom of expression. I felt that something wasn’t quite right. “It must be nerves,” I thought…
Read MoreFor the last three decades cartoonist Manuel Guillen has been portraying events in Nicaragua. Today we bring you several of his latest works, illustrating the “normal” situation the country is breathing.
Read MoreThe backbone of the Ortega regime’s political communications strategy at this time is centered on the attempt to demonstrate that the country has returned to normal. It’s a sterile effort, condemned to failure, since the realities and the very decisions and actions of the regime all point in the opposite direction.
Read MoreI’ve watched the video of the students from the “Republic of Argentina” school in Managua, showing a young girl throwing a rock towards one of the Police mercenaries from the Ortega-Murillo regime. In addition to recording her on his cellphone, he then pulls out his gun threatens her and the rest of the young teens accompanying her in a transitory student rebellion.
Read MoreThe state of emergency imposed by Commander Daniel Ortega, severely undermining the constitutional right to free mobilization and the right to petition, represents the final period of the political exhaustion of the Ortega-Murillo regime.
Read MoreThere was a time, the time I come from, when being a Sandinista meant putting your life on the line. It was a time when the FSLN was a clandestine organization, and belonging to it was a secret that only you knew: a time where Somoza proclaimed, “Sandinista seen, Sandinista dead”. Many of our companeros died in those years when the FSLN was being shaped.
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