The Havana Film Festival is in full swing in the Cuban capital and runs through December 16th. Films from all over Latin America compete for the Coral Awards and there are also showings of many films from other continents. Here Yusimi Rodriguez reviews the the Uruguayan film “La noche de 12 años” (The 12-year night) which she highly recommends.
Read MoreThe human body is a perfect machine which is why we can’t turn a blind eye to its signals. Early prevention ensures you live. She didn’t know how to listen to her body and had a fever on and off in the evening/night for a month, which left her weak.
Read MoreWe know that the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship is not sustainable because it relies only on armed violence. It has imposed an undeclared State of Siege and Martial Law, turning Nicaragua into a sort of occupied country. That is why we also know that they will have to leave power, but we have no certainty of when or how.
Read More“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.
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