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Margaret Atwood in Cuba: “I want to know what Cubans think about Trump”

February 13, 2017February 15, 2017 Circles Robinson 4 Comments Barbara Maseda

In her novel The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Canadian author Margaret Atwood makes reference to a radio station based in Cuba (Radio Free America) that broadcasts subversive messages to the oppressed people of the United States.

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The Man Behind “Unseen Cuba”

August 28, 2015February 13, 2017 Circles Robinson 15 Comments Barbara Maseda

When the aerial photos of Cuba taken by Lithuanian Marius Jovaisa began to be published on the Internet, we saw more than one expression of wounded, nationalist pride bemoaning the fact a foreigner had come along and captured those images before Cubans could.

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Promoting the Use of Free Technologies in Cuba

March 5, 2015February 13, 2017 Circles Robinson 1 Comment Barbara Maseda

At one end of the debate surrounding the potential benefits of using freeware and open-source programs in Cuba, we find a fairly reduced and largely unknown group of people who have been working with these programs for years.

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Cuban Artist Pioneers Faecal Art

January 29, 2009February 13, 2017 Circles Robinson 2 Comments Barbara Maseda

While artists in different periods have used human excrement as a medium of expression, such a peculiar use of the controversial material as that by Cuban artist Grethell Rasua is unprecedented.
—“In this work I use two materials that are absolutely conflicting: gold and excrement”.

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