“I Don’t Know How to Hate”
You learn to hate with discipline and practice. You don’t hate spontaneously, it’s a matter of severity and cold bloodedness.
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Search Results for: November 27th
Artists Meet in Havana to Fine Tune Demands
“The group of 30 hasn’t rested, they’ve hardly slept, [meeting] in a democratic, respectful way, with open hearts,” said Tania Bruguera.
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How Maduro’s “Anti-Hate Law” Plays Out in Venezuela
Here’s our report on how Maduro’s “Anti-Hate Law” plays out in Venezuela. It combines censorship and repression to put a muzzle on journalists
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Cuba Leaves Behind another Tense Economic Year
Cuban authorities blame the poor 2019 economic results (0.5% growth) on the strengthening of the US blockade and other adverse factors.
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US Congressman Tells Ortega its Hold Early Elections or Face Further Sanctions
Albio Sires, Chairman of the US House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, issued a new warning to the Nicaraguan dictator, Daniel Ortega, demanding that he restore respect for human rights and hold early elections in Nicaragua, or “face further sanctions”.
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Global Climate Strike Youth Activists on Why They Are Marching Today
Today is the Global Climate Strike, inspired by 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg. As people took to the streets in Africa, Asia, Europe and Australia, we host a roundtable discussion with youth activists organizing marches in the United States — in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Minneapolis — ahead of next week’s U.N. Climate Action Summit.
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Early Elections in Nicaragua Still Up in the Air
The demand to advance the general elections as an alternative peaceful solution to the sociopolitical crisis in Nicaragua is the new hurdle in the negotiation table established between the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo with the Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy.
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Cuban Civil Society Anxiously Awaits Referendum
Without access to public spaces, the “NO” campaign is doing the rounds on social media, headed by voices of the socialist government’s traditional opposition and other critics who aren’t dissidents, but are displaying their activism online in a country where Internet access is growing in spite of it still being limited and difficult to access due to its high cost for ordinary citizens.
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Cuban Artists Request a Public Debate over Decree 349
Even though Decree 349 was ushered in like many things are in the Official Gazette, it has created intense debates in different spaces for being a document that seeks to regulate the country’s cultural policy in an explicit way. Since November 20th 2018, a group of artists and creators have been sending a dossier around which summarizes their actions to hold a public debate about the new law and the messages that have been sent to the country’s main authorities.
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Spicy Joke “Fools” at the Havana Book Fair
The writer, screenwriter and filmmaker Eduardo del Llano pulled off a playfully joke at his own award ceremony and laughed with those attending the event at the 27th International Book Fair of Havana.
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