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Holguin’s District Attorney Didn’t Follow Up on My Complaint

According to Cuba’s Attorney General, no Cuban citizen has the right to take legal action or file charges against any authority’s abuse of power, you can only file a “complaint”.

Sonic Attacks in Cuba

I can assure that the Sonic attacks are real; I receive them daily and at almost any hour.

Romeo, Juliet and the Cuban Revolution

I am the luckiest man in the world because I already knew who I was going to spend the rest of my life with when I was 15 years old, but the Revolution’s policies didn’t make it easy for me… This is my story.

Cuba Car Fair with the World’s Most Expensive Vehicles

When I woke up that morning in January 2014 when I discovered the news about car prices, I thought that it was just another rumor from Miami. However, once I got to the store, I could confirm that Peugeots were priced at a quarter of a million dollars.

TeleSur TV, Molded for Cuba

The programming was very different to our own as it was a lot more diverse and objective. However, Cuban “experts” were already there, at the heart of TeleSur, working and influencing for content in their own image and likeness.

Fidel Castro’s Son Jumps into the Abyss

The son has died and people are reminiscing about the father. Or, they are finishing him off, in the same way.

The Nation and Reggaeton

The most dehumanizing of urban music increasingly fills today’s Cuban reality.

From Cuba, Personal Development Guru Speaks on Freedom

A few weeks ago now, the online Cuban community was shocked by a video made by Diego Dreyfus, a Mexican actor turned “personal development” guru who shared his opinion about freedom.

Behind Cuba’s Centralized Economy

If at any time, leaders of the Communist Party/Government honestly believed that a centralized and planned economy was going to be more efficient than the market economy, they couldn’t honorably uphold this position after the disastrous Special Period…

Is the Internet Cuba’s Weakest Flank?

The US is creating a Task Force in order to “help” Cubans access the Internet. Lacking all of Obama’s political imagination, Trump is remaking the movie that several US presidents have already produced before him.