Word has it (and I don’t know whether this is true or not) that at the meeting known as “Words to the Intellectuals” (1961) when Fidel outlined the limits of artistic creation in socialist Cuba with disguised and obvious threats, playwright Virgilio Pinera asked to have the floor and just uttered these words: “I’m afraid”.
Read MoreThis is the account of how the Cuban State skimmed the savings off a hotel waitress with its “socialist” banking system by applying a tax that is the same as any capitalist bank, in accordance with legislation, thereby taking a quarter of what the author of the will had left behind for her heir, after 22 years of hard work.
Read MoreNow that the euphoria of having a new president is slowly vanishing here in Cuba, now that Diaz-Canel is about to celebrate his first six months as the head of the Cuban government, it’s worth taking a moment to seriously think about and give a great gift to the new president…
Read MoreOver 8,000 Cubans working in Brasil have received news that the man who will surely become the next president, Jair Bolsonaro, says he will stop funding the Mais Medicos program, a federal program which hires local and foreign professionals to work in places where doctor:inhabitant ratios are low.
Read MoreAny cultural policy produced by a totalitarian and repressive government, like Cuba’s, is a policy of exclusion and creative castration, not only for artists but for everyone.
Read MoreFar from providing a good service, the Etecsa telecommunications company, which has a monoply in all of Cuba, only seems interested in milking Cubans for as much money as possible.
Read MoreUndoubtedly, one of the most promising events in the struggle against this genocidal regime took place on October 4th, with the signing of the Blue and White National Unity Manifesto. The demand of unity was expressed from different sectors of our society and was an imperative to take a qualitative step in the struggle for freedom.
Read MoreThe formation of a Blue and White National Unity movement (Unidad Nacional Azul y Blanco) with representation from the majority of the social and political sectors that actively oppose the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship, is a great historic event due to its broad political agreement without ideological discrimination or sectarianism.
Read MoreEver since the uprising began in Nicaragua, on April 18, 2008, there have been two dominant explanations as to how the series of events transpired. Let’s call them the primary theory and the conspiracy theory. As a direct witness to events transpiring in Nicaragua…
Read MoreThree left-wing parties, with representation in the Dutch Parliament, warned Sandinista legislators that they are in “danger of becoming a great shame” to the world, because of their silence and permissiveness towards the repression by the Ortega regime against the Nicaraguan people.
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