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“Plantados”, It’s Like Nobody Was Listening

The movie premiered in Miami in 2021, and it tells the chilling stories of political prisoners under the Cuban regime in the early 1960s.

We are not of interest to the Cuban leaders. I’m not sure I’ll ever understand how a government can lose interest in the people it represents.

Parades were supposed to be held across the country, but the handful of people in each of these were a joke more than anything else.

Added to the low profits that tobacco producers obtain today is the sale of some 270 tractors essential for their work in US dollar prices.

The greatest challenge we Cubans face is not only to overthrow the dictatorship, but to know how to build a democratic country tomorrow…

If we proceed to eliminate as opponents all those who at some point in their lives were Sandinistas or Somocistas… who is left?

For the visiting foreign delegations, Cuba is a theme park, a spectacle. As such, it requires a designed-to-order distorted gaze.

Return to Ithaca explores the conflicts arising when looking at the past, both for those who left and for those who decided to stay.

Government media have kept quiet about such incidents. However, keeping quiet and looking the other way doesn’t make the crime disappear…

Carlos F. Chamorro: “Doing journalism under a dictatorship, continuing to report and tell the truth, is an act of resistance.”