My home is still in mourning, and it has every reason to be. All the members of my family are mopping about the house with sad faces, and I share that pain. In less than 15 days we lost two friends of the family. The first, Nicolas, was a neighbor who was closer to us than any relative who shared our genes. The second friend was Hugo Chavez.
Read MoreThe movie “No”, by the Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larrain, is circulating in Havana these days from USB flash drive to flash drive, as well as being screened in alternative venues. Its theme: The referendum that removed the dictator Augusto Pinochet from power in Chile.
Read MoreFormer Cuban president, Fidel Castro, the current senior advisor to his brother, President Raul Castro, commented today on the loss last Tuesday of Hugo Chavez, 58, who he considered Cuba’s top ally.
Read MoreThe latest statements by Angel Carromero recanting everything he previously affirmed, seems to me — to be compassionate — something quite sad. Whether a crime was committed or he had an accident on that afternoon in Bayamo is something known only by God and those involved.
Read MoreYesterday was International Women’s Day and a group of Cubans decided to speak out about the controversial case of writer Angel Santiesteban, found guilty of domestic violence and therefore facing a sentence of five years in prison.
Read MoreSeeing the wave of self-employed businesses in Havana, I am struck by the boom in video games. With eye-catching posters and flyers distributed throughout the city, they attract kids who rush off to ruin their sight on the flashing screens … and their parents by throwing their money away. (9 photos)
Read MoreIn Chavez was born an awakening; in him was born an era of change not only for Venezuela, but for the world. It began in the pearl of the Caribbean, the mother of Bolivar, and gradually it awakened the peoples of Ecuador, Peru, Argentina, Nicaragua, Uruguay and other nations.
Read MoreA few weeks ago Mariela Castro (MC) was interviewed by Salim Lamrani on a number of issues regarding homosexuality in Cuba and related government policies there. I think this was one of the worst things MC has offered the public – her fans included. I say this because this exposure given to MC is really so absurd and erratic that it sounds like a poorly told children’s story.
Read MoreMy subjective perception of the matter is that gender violence is very common in Cuba, but at the same time there are elements of Cuban society that facilitate women breaking out of a violent situation.
Read More“Death is not true when one’s life work has been carried out well; the cranium of a thinker turns to dust, but their thoughts live forever, bearing the fruit of what that thinker envisioned.” Jose Marti wrote these words on March 5, 1876. Coincidentally, it was also on March 5 — but in 2013 — that Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez ceased to exist physically.
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