English Translations of Cubans Writing From the Island
14ymedio, Pedro Corzo, Miami, 25 May 2022 — That was the numerical identification that the prison administration of the Isla de Pinos prison hung on Pedro Luis Boitel, who on May 25 marks 50 years since he died on a hunger strike. Giving political prisoners a number was a form of dehumanization, of standardization, but … Continue reading “Pedro Luis Boitel, Prisoner Number 26621”
EFE (via 14ymedio), Miami, 26 May 2022 — Pedro Luis Boitel was forced to go thirsty during a hunger strike in prison, because “Castro gave the order that they cut off his water until he died,” according to what his cellmate, the human rights Armando Valladares, told Efe. “You cannot write the history of political … Continue reading “Fidel Castro Ordered the ‘Water Shut Off’ to Pedro Luis Boitel, Says His Former Cellmate”
Filmmaker Lilo Vilaplana and activist Reinol Rodríguez attempt to expose a crime that had the complicit silence of many, including authorities and numerous important press media of the time 14ymedio, Miami, Pedro Corzo, October 12, 2025 — Decades have passed, overwhelming days and hours, to the point that those of us who live in these … Continue reading “A Forgotten Crime of the Castro Regime, Cubana de Aviación Flight 495”
The rulers of these countries tightly control the electoral mechanisms and present themselves as a bloc against a divided opposition. 14ymedio, Pedro Corzo, Miami, 7 September 2025 — In all honesty, I express my deepest doubts that the peoples subjugated by what we identify as Castrochavism – in Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia and Cuba, controlled by … Continue reading “Elections Under Castrochavismo”
They consciously acted against the rights of their fellow citizens and actively participated in the destruction of civic values. 14ymedio, Pedro Corzo, Miami, 17 August 2025 — Even before the totalitarian system was imposed in Cuba, the Castro nomenklatura promoted false heroic narratives upon which the current system of absolute control was cemented, a task … Continue reading “The Castro Fraud”
The mayor of Cuauhtémoc in Mexico City, Alessandra Rojo de la Vega, removed the statues of the tyrant Fidel Castro and the murderer Ernesto ’Che’ Guevara. 14ymedio, Pedro Corzo, Miami, 3 August 2025 — La señora Alessandra Rojo de la Vega, mayor of Cuauhtémoc, a town considered the heart of Mexico City, decided to remove … Continue reading “Of Statues and Monuments”
In the early years of his tyranny, Fidel Castro attributed to José Martí all imaginable civic virtues, not out of respect for the patrician, but to use him as a wild card in the construction of the totalitarian system. 14ymedio, Pedro Corzo, Havana, 27 July 2025 — I have the firm conviction that one of … Continue reading “José Martí Was Not the Mastermind Behind the Attack on Cuba’s Moncada Barracks”
Díaz-Canel and all the henchmen who accompany him in government and in the inevitable repression are consumed by the fear of losing power. 14ymedio, Pedro Corzo, Miami, 21 July 2025 — Castro’s totalitarian regime has once again demonstrated that the only thing left in its arsenal of lies and manipulation is the most brutal and … Continue reading “Cuba: 11 July, Four Years Later”
Cubans on the island, not having full enjoyment of their rights, suffer from a social defenselessness that emigrants from other systems of government do not suffer. 14ymedio, Pedro Corzo, Miami, 30 June 2025 — Many years ago, I came to the conclusion that leaving Cuba generates very significant personality transformations in many people. I have … Continue reading “Exile as a Catalyst, A Cuban Perspective”
Cuban students, particularly those in high school and university, are fed up with the restrictions and violations of their citizenship rights by totalitarianism. 14ymedio, Pedro Corzo, Miami, 22 June 2024 — Recent student protests in Cuba raise hopes for a return to the days when this transient sector of Cuban society was a constant and … Continue reading “Cuban Students: The Homeland Belongs to Everyone”
Citizens are becoming more aware of their rights and are demanding from the dictatorship the spaces that belong to them. 14ymedio, Pedro Corzo, Miami, 8 June 2025 — Everything seems to indicate that the ironclad social control established in Cuba by brothers Fidel and Raúl Castro, inherited by the inept Miguel Diaz-Canel, is cracking, although … Continue reading “Fractures of Castroism”
Cuban authors have been victims of the cultural war that Castroism started in 1959. 14ymedio, Pedro Corzo, Miami, May 11, 2025 — Ten years ago, the Cuban journalist Silvio Mancha proposed to convene a group of writers and publishers to hold a literary meeting that would bring together books, authors and publishing houses that Castro’s … Continue reading “The Second International Congress for the Cuban Book in Exile”
The institution is an essential instrument to promote despotism 14ymedio, Pedro Corzo, May 6, 2025 — It must be admitted that Castrochavismo has been very lavish in setting up regional organizations with the aim of having several means to control politics in any of its expressions in the hemisphere and thus build the sea of … Continue reading “The Celac Circus”
14ymedio, Pedro Corzo, Miami, 27 April 2025 — It is more than obvious that the Ecuadorian people have given thought to what it would have meant for their country to reelect president Rafael Correa, a criminal convicted for corruption who will lament until his last day having supported Lenin Mareno in his quest toward the … Continue reading “Ecuador’s Rafael Correa Was Not Resurrected”
These damages are as or more destructive than the others that make up Castroism’s tragic legacy. 14ymedio, Pedro Corzo, Havana, 20 April 2025 — A few days ago, in a conversation with friends, we discussed how regimes of force, particularly those of a totalitarian or messianic nature, cause numerous and different types of harm to … Continue reading “The Intangible Damages of Castroism”
