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#MUA(H) Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo What do the kisses of Communists taste like? Is despotism a clinical cause of halitosis? Does fidelity cause tartar build up? Is demagoguery a healthy source of sociopositive saliva? Is gingivitis a hygienic problem or perhaps a historical one? Anyway, I’m going to tell you a story, my hetero-raggedy-readers. Some … Continue reading “KISSMOCRACIA / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo”

A caricature by a master of Cuban humor, thank you Garrincha Translator’s note: The billboard refers to the “Five Heroes” — Cuban spies imprisoned in the U.S.  “El Sexto” — “The Sixth” the moniker chosen for himself by Danilo — is meant to imply he is also a hero, the sixth one.

Yesterday, February 23, 2012, for a second time, Cuban TV has honored me by exposing my image — along with those of several other independent journalists and dissidents — in the national news. The previous occasion occurred months ago, during an unfortunate program televised through the famously dull Roundtable, regarding an alleged cyberwar that the … Continue reading “Declaration of Principles / Miriam Celaya”

Until now I had decided not to write about the five Cuban spies, who are serving sentences in the United States, mainly out of consideration and respect for the feelings of their families. However, in the face of the frenzied media campaign unleashed by the Cuban authorities, with the obvious complicity of them, I consider … Continue reading “A Frenzied Media Campaign / Fernando Dámaso”

www.thestarklife.com/2011/11/03/el-sexto-cubas-graf-king/ This article can be read at the original site – STARK: A Digital Culture Magazine – here — along with the accompanying images. The original article is in English. EL SEXTO: Cuba’s Next Graf King Danilo Maldonado may be the new face of revolution in Cuba, but he’s no politician. As El Sexto, he’s … Continue reading “El Sexto in The Stark Life / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo”

It’s nighttime, the street light on the corner isn’t working, and no cars go down the street at this time. A bony and agile hand quickly pulls out a can of paint and sprays a signature on a wall, ending in a five-pointed star. In the morning curious neighbors will read the rubric, “El Sexto” … Continue reading “Cuban Graffiti Artist Demands Freedom With His Spray Can / Yoani Sánchez”

The first time I was close to Agustin Bejarano it was in 2004, during a couple of hours of the night literary circle,and I had never seen his work. His name began to sound familiar, as a well-treated artist, but his surprising and meteoric rise that would begin a little latter was still unknown, for … Continue reading “From Glory to Villainy / Ernesto Morales Licea”

I saw him before me, for the first time, in a television studio in Miami. He had been invited to debate an incident in which he had been a protagonist: A billboard, in an anti-Castro city par excellence, that for twenty-four hours spoke out on behalf of the five Cuban members of the “Wasp Network” … Continue reading “Among Dissidents: My Interview with Max Lesnik (I) / Ernesto Morales Licea”

In real politics what the media reports is important. But even more crucial still is what is not said. Jimmy Carter’s three days in Havana seems to suggest that Barack Obama’s administration asked the ex-president of the United States serve as a mediator with the riffraff for the Jewish contractor Alan Gross, sentenced to 15 … Continue reading “Carter, a Negotiator Who Pleased Everyone in Cuba / Iván García”

The Florida media commented on the details of the flow of musicians and writers that travel from Havana to Miami or New York, where they perform in clubs and theaters or speak in universities and conference rooms. Among the literary figures the writer Miguel Barnet, the President of the Union of Writers and Artists of … Continue reading “Barnet and His Alter Ego / Miguel Iturria Savón”