Frank is a man of principles and you pay dearly for having principles in Cuba. State institutions which control culture (extensions of the Communist Part) haven’t been able to forgive his irreverence, his critical discourse, the cutting and impudent way he talks and sings about Che, about Fidel or about socially traumatic experiences we’ve had in our more recent history…
Read MoreThe disastrous consequences that the Ortega Murillo dictatorship will leave behind far outmatch those of past dictatorships of the country. No other dictatorship of Nicaragua’s modern history has reverted public discourse back as many centuries as this regime.
Read MoreSomebody I know on social media, who I got on really well with once we found out each other’s stories and our similar points of view about the Cuban dictatorship, wrote to me today to tell me that she would delete me from her friends’ list because she doesn’t want stories appearing in her feed from friends who appreciate former US president Barack Obama.
Read MoreCuba’s results at the 23rd Central American and Caribbean Games in Barranquilla, 2018, should make the Cuban people swell with pride because seeing their athletes’ win is one of their greatest sources of joy. However, comments in our media mentioned a “bitter pill to swallow”…
Read MoreOnly 26 countries in the world currently allow same-sex marriage. And soon, after the new Cuban Constitution is (surely) approved, as well as a Law which they must be writing up right now, our county will join this avant-garde when it comes to human rights.
Read MoreThe story is the same: the protests are imperialist attacks; the protesters are criminals and terrorists, the regime isn’t leaving, they want peace. What’s changed are the channels for communication.
Read MoreIn interviews with foreign media, Daniel Ortega has declared that the country is returning to “normal”. His contradictions compete with those of Donald Trump. The only difference being that here, in our case, he is lying about deaths, about the blood spilled of over 300 Nicaraguan citizens and the arrest, persecution and unfair trial of hundreds.
Read MoreDaniel Ortega paints his leadership and government as a champion of the Latin America Left standing up to an onslaught of US imperialism and international and local capitalism, just like the situation during the war against the US backed “Contras” in the 1980s.
Read MoreOver time, we have discovered that international defenders of the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship, who belong to an outdated Left, aren’t analyzing the situation in Nicaragua as Marxists, but through their prism of nostalgia for a revolution which ceased to exist many years ago.
Read MoreThe LGBTQI community has insisted on joining an archaic institution which they were never really excluded from. They have preferred to do this instead of being the avant-garde of the struggle for a real freedom to love, thereby falling into a trap…
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