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From Cuba: “Fuck You Robert de Niro”

During his visit to New York, Mr. Diaz-Canel (Raul Castro’s puppet, according to many) was lavished with attention at a meeting with important figures of US culture at the sadly famous Dakota building.

Forced Return to the Stone Age as Cuba Outlaws Independent Art

The Cuban government, together with the Ministry of Culture, are about to bury this beautiful country’s incredible culture for the sake of holding absolute control over every art form that is created here. They are about to make us mediocre, they are about to throw us to the bottom of global culture’s list, which Cuban artists have been at the top of in one way or another.

Coup-mongers versus Toads

Discrediting as a political weapon does not need any proof or reasoning. Just put a label, repeat it a thousand times and appeal to lower passions. Surely the immediacy, massiveness and low transparency of social networks contributes to a wider dissemination, but this phenomenon is as old as humanity.

Imprisoned Truth

A poem by Gioconda Belli, dedicated to the political prisoners of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.

A Call to Vote NO in Cuba’s Constitutional Referendum

A group of people are calling upon the Cuban population to vote NO in the constitutional referendum, after concluding that opposition and dissident proposals will not be included in the draft constitution which the party/government/State in power has published. Read here what they propose.

Does the Draft Constitution Promise a Future for Cuba?

The new draft Constitution, which has been written up by the Communist Party to tweak Cuba’s Law of Laws, forces us to ask many questions: Does it have a future? Can it really solve our national problems? In order to answer these, we first need to define what our main problems and objectives are here in Cuba.

Nicaragua Urgently Needs a Collaborative Agreement

There have been a number of observations aired on the independent television channels here regarding the role of the student delegates and the bishops who are the mediators and guarantors of the currently stagnated national dialogue.

Five Reasons to Oppose Same-Sex Marriage in Cuba

The inclusion of Article 68 in Cuba’s new draft Constitution seems to be the only thing people are talking about during the popular consultation process. The chance to recognize marriage as the union between two people, regardless of their gender, has led to the most repetitive speeches at every assembly (if we go by what official media reports anyway).

Cuba’s Diaz-Canel Shows His True Colors

A politician should be judged by the results they produce rather than by their words, but because nothing has changed in Cuba since Miguel Diaz Canel came into power, we will have to stick to what he has said for the first time outside of a previously-written speech to get to know him a little better.

The Path to Change and Democracy for Nicaragua

“We are winning,” chant the people in the streets, and in effect, you can feel in the air the strategic defeat of President Ortega as Supreme Leader of the repression. His failure lies in that after having perpetrated the worse bloodbath in national history in times of peace, the only thing he can offer the country is the threat to remain in power as a feared and bloodthirsty dictator.