Reading a blog by fellow journalist Lilibeth Alfonso, I found out that authorities in Cuba’s Guantanamo province had decided to prohibit the “package,” that compendium of films, TV series, reality shows & soap operas distributed weekly nationwide.
Read MorePedro Campos on Cuban State Security repression: “Since they cannot accuse me of treason, of working for the “enemy”, they are now looking for another way to try and neutralize me, to silence my political and economic analyses of Cuban reality”.
Read MoreImagine you have a health problem. You look for a doctor at a medical institution. They prescribe a treatment and medicine. You buy the bottles indicated, open them and note that they only contain water.
Read MoreScience and its adherents allow themselves the leeway that they deny to other forms of knowledge: the possibility of existing and of making mistakes. Institutionalized medical science is perhaps the most hypocritical of all the branches of science, because their hypocrisy not infrequently ends up buried in the grave.
Read MoreIt’s been almost two years since Cuba’s Episcopal Conference sought to make public its vision about Cuba and clarify how the Church conceives and envisages the options it recommends or demands for the country in the midst of its reform process.
Read MoreBefore all else, I want to state that I am opposed to any kind of violence, particularly if it is directed at a woman, a poet and an artist as admirable as Tania Bruguera.
Read MoreUntil recently, it looked like Obama was winning the fight for his Cuba policy changes. But two recent votes in the House of Representatives have challenged these expectations.
Read MoreI recently returned from a trip to the United States and Switzerland, where I’d been invited to participate at different film festivals. The return trip always involves an obligatory stop-over in Miami – and an encounter with friends or old acquaintances. No one says anything to me, no one tries to convince me of anything.
Read MoreA resolution recently passed by the Cuban Ministry of Health (MINSAP) establishing natural and traditional medicine as a new medical specialty that can comprehensively and holistically address health problems has given rise to a curious debate.
Read MoreIn Cuba the one-party state is a very controversial question that few of the left-wing critics of the Cuban regime have been willing to address. What follows is an attempt to explore, from the left, some of the issues around this topic.
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