The 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…
Read MoreThe Cuban Revolution never managed (or maybe it never set out to) to have an unprejudiced idea about politics, which would allow young people to talk about it with the same humor, relaxation and energy that they have when they talk about the latest music video or the latest mobile phone and its apps.
Read MoreCuba, and its new constitution which will most likely be approved in the coming months. We are living a historic moment, there’s no doubt about it. Even though many people think it’s more of the same old, I do believe we should take a good look at some of the changes that we will soon see in all of Cuban society from now on.
Read MoreWe have to give this humdrum president credit though, he is keeping the only promise he made when he took on this position: that his government would be one of continuity.
Read MoreIn a speech to the Cuban Journalists Union (UPEC), President Miguel Diaz-Canel has made it very clear to me (if I ever had doubts that is) that he is a part of the “Revolution’s” orthodox tradition, which considers “intransigence” to be innate to its condition.
Read MoreMarco Novoa is the first Nicaraguan youth to publicly denounce the existence of a clandestine jail in which he was tortured for a week. He was kidnapped by one of Ortega’s paramilitary groups on May 24, in retaliation for his participation in the civic protests against the regime.
Read MoreHow do we respond to a president who declares war against all those that oppose him? A president who has demonstrated his willingness to use arms, to persecute and condemn as “terrorists” those who dare to contradict the version of reality he’s been fostering to explain what has happened in Nicaragua.
Read MoreThe vicious attack launched this July 19th by commander Daniel Ortega against the Catholic church’s Episcopal Conference bishops was intended to be the final blow to derail the country’s hope in the National Dialogue, but it’s destined to the most resounding failure.
Read MoreIn Havana, there are very few places where you can go that don’t cost you a fortune or mean that you are surrounded by Reggaeton’s vulgar sect and their followers. The theaters are one of the places that my wife and I still have, a place where we can take refuge whenever we can.
Read MoreFidel Castro would never have accepted political complicity in the face of the murders committed against an unarmed people, nor offered support to the actions of a despotic government, like that of Nicaragua, over narrow calculations of regional geo-politics.
Read More
