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The Cuban Regime Survives by Fear
The Cuban Regime Survives by Fear / Iván García Iván García, 21 March 2017 — In the slum of Lawton, south of Havana, the need for housing has converted an old collective residence with narrow passageways into a bunkhouse. With dividers made from cardboard or bricks recovered from demolished buildings, “apartments” have appeared where a […] Continue reading
Legacy and End Point
Legacy and End Point / Somos+, Pedro Acosta Somos+, Pedro Acosta, 6 December 2016 — After your departure the Cuban people should be eternally grateful for: The fall of the dictatorship. Fulfilling your political promises, especially the respect for the 1940 Constitution, the quick holding of free elections, and not placing yourself permanently in power. […] Continue reading
Fidel Castro is dead
Fidel Castro is dead BY GLENN GARVIN ggarvin@MiamiHerald.com Fidel Castro, who towered over his Caribbean island for nearly five decades, a shaggy-bearded figure in combat fatigues whose long shadow spread across Latin America and the world, is dead at age 90. His brother Raul announced the death late Friday night. Millions cheered Fidel Castro on […] Continue reading
Tallies and Tales of the Reforms
Cuba: Tallies and Tales of the Reforms / Vicente Botín Once upon a time… A female cat fell in love with a handsome young man and prayed to the goddess Aphrodite to turn her into a woman. The goddess, pitying the cat’s yearning, transformed her into a beautiful maiden, and the young man, captivated by […] Continue reading
As the future closes in, there’s still time to travel to authentic Cuba
As the future closes in, there’s still time to travel to authentic Cuba THE WASHINGTON POST PUBLISHED: August 5, 2016 at 2:16 pm | UPDATED: August 5, 2016 at 2:19 By Moriah Balingit The Washington Post For many travelers, the goal is to physically move – to be flung through airspace and to cross borders […] Continue reading
In Cuba, as an uncertain future inches closer, it’s still a step back in time
In Cuba, as an uncertain future inches closer, it’s still a step back in time By Moriah Balingit July 28 at 4:30 PM For many travelers, the goal is to physically move — to be flung through airspace and to cross borders — but to remain in spaces that are comfortably familiar. They would prefer […] Continue reading
100% Cuban
100% Cuban FRANCISCO ALMAGRO | Miami | 22 Ene 2016 – 10:55 am. I am borrowing the title of a song by the great Cuban singer/songwriter Pedro Luis Ferrer to tell this story. It happened in a shop in Miami, where families frequently buy fruits, vegetables and meats, all very fresh, attended to by a […] Continue reading
Press Workshop with Raul Rivero
Press Workshop with Raul Rivero / Ivan Garcia Posted on November 23, 2015 Ivan Garcia, 23 November 2015 — On these hot nights in Havana, when nostalgia, that silent thief that robs you of strength, strikes without warning, Raúl Rivero, the poet, sneaks through my window and offers me a workshop specifically on the latest […] Continue reading
Pope Francis is bringing a wish list to Cuba, but he may be disappointed
Pope Francis is bringing a wish list to Cuba, but he may be disappointed By Nick Miroff September 17 at 7:00 PM HAVANA — The president of Cuba is a communist who was educated in Jesuit academies. The pope is a Jesuit who grew up attending public schools. They took vastly divergent paths, but both […] Continue reading
No One Treats Me Like a Prostitute
“No One Treats Me Like a Prostitute” / Lilianne Ruiz Posted on February 23, 2014 HAVANA, Cuba – Yazmín doesn’t do the street. Nor does she acknowledge exercising the oldest profession in the world. She navigates the Internet for 10 CUC an hour, in some Havana hotel with this service. She visits websites to find […] Continue reading
Demystifying las UMAP – The Politics of Sugar, Gender, and Religion in 1960s Cuba
Demystifying las UMAP: The Politics of Sugar, Gender, and Religion in 1960s Cuba Joseph Tahbaz ’15 History major Dartmouth College Joseph.A.A.Tahbaz.15@dartmouth.edu Abstract: The UMAP, las Unidades Militares de Ayuda a la Producción, were forced-work agricultural labor camps operated by the Cuban government during the mid-1960s in the east-central province of Camagüey. The current academic literature […] Continue reading
Cuba’s hard truths exposed
Cuba’s hard truths exposed Lane, Friday, September 13, 1:48 AM Cholera is a potentially fatal, water-borne, gastrointestinal disease usually associated with poverty and inadequate sanitation. Some 600,000 people contracted the disease in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake, 8,000 of whom died. It is not the sort of illness that you would expect to find in […] Continue reading
The Many Faces of a Conflict
The Many Faces of a Conflict / Miriam Celaya Posted on August 22, 2013 In Cuba there are no institutions that guarantee the rights of the most vulnerable. Prostitution is not even mentioned as a problem by the Government. It is said that prostitution is the oldest occupation in the world. There aren’t any cultures […] Continue reading
Journalism in the street
Journalism in the street / Ivan Garcia Posted on August 10, 2013 Owing to the lack of statistics and figures, independent Cuban reporters have to reinvent certain rules when providing information. We don’t have access to government press conferences and no minister gives interviews or comments. Nor can we rival the foreign agencies accredited in […] Continue reading
North Korea, Cuba and Iran Criticize Canada’s Lack of Human Rights at UN
North Korea, Cuba and Iran Criticize Canada’s Lack of Human Rights at UN April 27, 2013 By Daniel Greenfield The moral authority of the United Nations and its supporters and defenders has as much value as the moral authority of the North Korean, Chinese, Cuban, Russian, Saudi and other totalitarian regimes that actually dominate it. […] Continue reading
Canadians are major customers in Cuba’s child sex market
Canadians are major customers in Cuba's child sex market Canada is lax when it comes to stopping its sex offenders from going to Cuba and preying on underage prostitutes. Most tourists are drawn to Cuba by the sand, the sunshine, and the culture. But a few tourists – including some Canadians – are drawn by […] Continue reading
‘Anti-Capitalism’ That Falls Short
'Anti-Capitalism' That Falls Short October 1, 2012 "Scratch an extremist and you will find an opportunist" — V.I. Lenin Pedro Campos HAVANA TIMES — The little expression "anti-capitalist" is very much in vogue today "We're anti-capitalists." Our position is "anti-capitalist." Our revolutionary program is "anti-capitalist." "Down with the capitalist enemy." "Death to the capitalists." This […] Continue reading
The Cuban League Against AIDS Report of Human Rights Violations to the LGBT Community in Cuba / Wendy Iriepa and Ignacio Estrada
The Cuban League Against AIDS Report of Human Rights Violations to the LGBT Community in Cuba / Wendy Iriepa and Ignacio Estrada Translator: Chabeli, Wendy Iriepa and Ignacio Estrada Havana Cuba, Thursday, February 16, 2012. General Report of the Cuban League Against AIDS on Human Rights violations to the community of Lesbians, Gays,Bisexuals and Transgenders. […] Continue reading
Havana Cuba 16 February 2012. Report of the Cuban League Against AIDS about Human Rights Violations in Cuba Against the LGBT Community / Wendy Iriepa and Ignacio Estrada
Havana Cuba 16 February 2012. Report of the Cuban League Against AIDS about Human Rights Violations in Cuba Against the LGBT Community / Wendy Iriepa and Ignacio Estrada Translator: Unstated, Wendy Iriepa and Ignacio Estrada Five decades have passed since that fateful triumph featuring people dressed in garments of olive green, who descended from the […] Continue reading
Cost-benefit, Right-freedom / Joisy García Martínez
Cost-benefit, Right-freedom / Joisy García MartínezJoisy García Martínez, Translator: Unstated To Tweet from a cell phone in Cuba is disproportionately costly, almost impossible, and only comparable with the draining of the Cienaga de Zapata swamp, the eradication of prostitution, computer illiteracy or the forbidden game. To write 140 characters via a cell phone in Cuba, […] Continue reading
Cuba, An Island of Euphemisms
Cuba, An Island of EuphemismsMarch 30, 2012Dariela AquiquePeople who were the "maggots," "worms," "traitors" and "scum" are now called "community members" or "Cuban-Americans" or "those l... Continue reading
To the Outraged / Lilianne Ruíz
To the Outraged / Lilianne RuízLilianne Ruíz, Translator: Unstated I understand that Western countries, where the government emerges from a multi-party democracy, must have their problems. Here the scriptwriters of any news report broadcast are very pleased when they comment on (because they almost never let you hear the voices of the international reporters) the […] Continue reading
RACE AND COLOR IN CONTEMPORARY CUBA
RACE AND COLOR IN CONTEMPORARY CUBAGayle McGarrity When I first returned to the United States in 1982, after living for a year and a half in Cuba, I was eager to share with my colleagues the extent to which racism and class divisions were still a glaring reality in ´Revolutionary Cuba´. However, no one wanted [...] Continue reading
CUBA: READY TO EXIT ITS EVOLUTIONARY CUL-DE-SAC?
Visions from Two TheoriesA place to put musings and other materials about:How and why people's space-time-action orientations (STA)affect their mindsets.How and why four major forms of organization — tribes, hierarchical institutions, markets, and networks (TIMN) —affect social evolution. — a TIMN perspective CUBA: READY TO EXIT ITS EVOLUTIONARY CUL-DE-SAC? "…assuming that the post-Fidel regime endures,the […] Continue reading
Not many Cubans at Cuban beach
Not many Cubans at Cuban beachPosted on Wed, May. 28, 2008By MIAMI HERALD STAFFCuba@MiamiHerald.com VARADERO, Cuba –Edis is accustomed to getting chased off tourist beaches. For her to make money braiding tourists' hair on the popular Varaderobeach, she parks herself on a patch of sand between tourist hotels toavoid trespassing on hotel property. Then she [...] Continue reading
Cuba’s Long Black Spring
Cuba's Long Black SpringFive years after the Castro government cracked down on the independentpress,more than 20 journalists remain behind bars for the "crime" offree expression. The island nation has paid the price of internationalisolation.The journalists and their families have paid in human misery. March 18, 2008 In her kitchen overlooking Havana's crumbling skyline, Julia NúñezPacheco [...] Continue reading
Transvestites and Crossdressers Key Workers Against AIDS
CUBA: Transvestites and Crossdressers Key Workers Against AIDSBy Dalia Acosta PINAR DEL RIO, Cuba, Mar 17 (IPS) – Activism against AIDS is uniting a group of transvestites and crossdressers in western Cuba in a project that is going beyond peer education and making inroads into the world of culture. "The time has come to take [...] Continue reading
Cuban rapper: Fight the injustice
Cuban rapper: Fight the injustice
POSTED: 9:18 a.m. EDT, April 11, 2007
Story Highlights
• Cuban rapper says he's not afraid to speak his mind in his homeland
• Rapper says he points out injustices and "the people like it"
• Cuba formed a rap agency in 2002 to exert its influence on the music
• Rap organizer says state's… Continue reading
Hip Hop Sidelined but Still Rapping
MUSIC-CUBA:
Hip Hop Sidelined but Still Rapping
Dalia Acosta
HAVANA, Mar 19 (IPS) – Cuban hip hop music is past its peak, and is
struggling to survive in a context where it lacks performance venues,
receives only weak institutional support, and has to compete with more
commercial music styles alien to the critical discourse that the
movement has promoted since… Continue reading