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Let’s Talk about the US Blockade

Official Cuban media have recently launched another propaganda campaign about the Blockade, to reinforce the idea that it is the main source of all our problems. Let’s analyze these arguments:

The FSLN’s Final Leap into Prehistory

With neither program nor proposals to offer the population to recover the hint of consensus, among a mass of fanatics obsessed with maintaining Ortega in power and held together by the ideology of violence, they don’t care if they have to continue killing and jailing the entire rest of Nicaragua in his name.

The Strategic Defeat of Ortega in Nicaragua

We are winning because there is no return to the past. Because the future began to take shape at the moment the population lost its fear and freedom seized the streets. An out of control Orteguismo is already in the past – all that remains is his repressive apparatus.

Two Young Nicaraguan Women, Yaritza and Victoria

I’m writing this with immense sorrow in my heart, from a distance and an emotional place beyond consolation. The grief has grown larger, uncontrollable, and today I can’t go on: I must let it out. Yaritza, Victoria, Levy, Luis, Byron, Nahiroby and Juan were abducted on Saturday, August 25, while participating in a citizens’ demonstration in Leon, Nicaragua.

Lessons for Cuba from protests in Venezuela and Nicaragua

As a result of recent protests in Venezuela and Nicaragua, we have seen that these governments (like many others) are willing to do whatever they need to in order to hold onto power. They are not afraid to repress and kill like any of the dictatorships that ravaged South America over the past two centuries did. Does anyone really think this would be any different in Cuba?

Slight Changes to the New Constitution Could Make a Difference

It would be foolish to propose political or economic changes to the Cuban Communist Party. However, I believe it would be good for us to take part in the debate and discussion relating to the draft Constitution. Of course, I don’t believe that this is a truly democratic exercise, it’s rather a simulation of constituent democracy.

Cuba: Whoever only Sees Things in Blue, Misses All the Other Colors

Cuba is at an important crossroads right now, there’s no doubt about that. The new Constitution is putting forward a social change that will completely change how we see today’s society.

The Boss Speaks and Law 349 Punishes Independent Art in Cuba

People say that when Fidel Castro saw his friend Rene Portocarrero go white as a sheet in the face of a horde of enraged speeches that were taking place at the first National Congress of Education and Culture in 1971, he kindly asked Alfredo Guevara to please get him out of there. I don’t know if this story is true, although I do think it’s likely.

Someone Writes to Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega

A negotiation or political dialogue between excluding positions is never a process to reach agreements. In an alliance you seek to be in agreement, in a political negotiation you do not. A negotiation defines the limits of the reciprocal interests confronted, in a contradictory and changing reality…

Cuba, an “Example” for the World

Cuba is an example of the dangers of the extreme concentration of national wealth and a good study case of how this concentration eats away at the vitality of society. How this hyper-concentration of wealth came about is irrelevant to us analyzing its consequences for democratic life.