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Yasmin Silvia Portales Machado

What Happened to ‘La Joven Cuba’?

July 6, 2012July 10, 2012

You need to have a gift for gibberish; it’s not easy to talk and say nothing. OK, but it’s a talent nonetheless. The Cuban blog La Joven Cuba suddenly shut down on Friday but the one line reason given is not very convincing.

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Drooling Over the Pope in Cuba

March 25, 2012March 29, 2012

It’s no secret that many people’s mouths around the world are watering over the visit of His Holiness Benedict XVI to Cuba. But not all this is the result of delighted anticipation. And frankly, some of it is poisonous and violent slobber, though few mouth’s will cease to water.

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A Pope’s Visit to Cuba: “I’m not celebrating”

November 21, 2011March 25, 2012

So let’s see: Why the hell do I have to feel affection for an ex-Nazi who is against condoms, birth control, divorce, mothers with jobs, homosexual heads of households and sexually active LGBTI individuals?

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Yasmin: A Multifaceted Cuban Activist and Blogger

August 15, 2011March 25, 2012

Yasmin defines herself as a feminist and a Marxist, she signs her e-mails with a phrase by Carlo Frabetti: “Engels couldn’t have said it clearer: the first form of exploitation, the basis of all others, was the exploitation of woman by man; but not even Marx listened to him.”

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