‘Looking at Cuba’ from All Angles
The good thing is that the project wasn’t defined from the very beginning. Over time we’re transforming and adapting “Vercuba” since we think of it as something alive and living,” said Ahmel Hechevarria Pere.
Yusimi Rodriguez
Supporting the Cuban Revolution at a Distance
Something strange often happens when I am with a foreigner and I criticize the system in my country. They’re taken aback and rebuke me for being ungrateful, naive, and ignorant, in daring to criticize the reality in which I live because I don’t know what the reality is like in other countries.
Cuba: What Do We Mean By Revolution?
I don’t know how many times I’ve heard and read the word revolution throughout my life. I don’t know how many slogans with the word “revolution” are batted around in school. But never until now have I wondered what exactly the revolution really is.
The Cuban Rap Agency Controversy (Alcaild’s Version)
“A lot of things have happened, and I think that many of the goals have been achieved by those who started actions around that demand: the demotion of the agency’s director. The most important thing now is to rebuild, to see how we can move the Cuban Agency of Rap forward,” said Alcaild in his interview with HT.
The Role of Unions in Cuba
For years I’ve worked hard to understand the role of trade unions, at least those here in Cuba. In history classes they taught us that these had emerged as vehicles for workers to stand up against factory owners and companies. I assumed that membership was voluntary here as one of our rights as workers.
Our Responsibility in Cuba
I didn’t spare words or irony to question the existence of a single political party here in my country. The same goes for a constitution that only allows us freedom of speech and the press in accordance with the aims of “socialist” society, and an electoral system designed so that we can’t choose.
In Cuba, the Party Doesn’t Need Elections
It’s a good thing there are people who remind us that Cuba’s political system is organized in such a manner that there’s no need for parties, campaigning or money to win an election.
We, the Cuban Viewers
We love to remember the part in which so and so is discovered or what’s his name escapes. These are shows where we jump for joy, bite our nails (over what we already know will or won’t happen), or stomp on the floor in frustration over the bad guy’s victory (temporary, of course). In some ways we act like well-trained dogs.
The Cuban Rap Agency Controversy (Soandry’s Version)
“Hermanos de Causa” (Brothers of the Cause), the well-known Cuban rap group founded in 1997, has been a member of the “Cuban Rap Agency” since 2010. Their latest cause: getting Magia Lopez removed from the directorship of the agency. Soandry del Rio Ferrer, explains his reasons.
Cuba: Miriam Celaya, A Dissident By Nature
Most Cubans don’t have Internet access. Many don’t know what the “network of networks” is. For them, Miriam Celaya is just a name. Even those people who have Internet access at their jobs aren’t familiar with her blog. Access is always blocked.