English Translations of Cubans Writing From the Island
The post “Cuba always skimps on resources for education and teachers” in my blog attracted a comment from someone who put in a link to porn site. Surprised, startled, I regained my composure by remembering her perfume. I breathed in deeply, thinking of the sweet strong scent. Calmer, I marked the comment as spam and … Continue reading “The Exclusive Aroma of a Singular Perfume / Dora Leonor Mesa”
I have been many Lillis, and all are me, one of those Lillis tried to escape from a confinement to which my mother condemned me, at age 22 at the Fajardo Hospital, really depressed after an abortion and drugged by one Dr. Justo against my will, I jumped without knowing what I was doing from … Continue reading “What Was I Doing Before? / Lilianne Ruíz”
The signature of Alina Brouwer in the Book of Condolences for Laura Pollán… October 17 2011
mobile.twitter.com/OLPL Translated Tweets Orlando Luis Pardo OLPL State Security HATE me for tweeting this but never arrested me: they have prepared another more terrible end for me, like an accident or of health! about 1 hour ago Orlando Luis Pardo OLPL State Security HATE Ismael de Diego but fear the international scandal because of his … Continue reading “Gorki and El Sexto Arrested in Havana Saturday 11:00 PM / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo”
BUT THE DEAD, AYE, CONTINUED DYING The Februarys begin to accumulate, with the complicity of our indolent amnesia. Indecent. Till death do us bring together. Was it one or three years ago? Orlando Zapata Tamayo? Or were the last names reversed? From Santa Clara or Santiago de Cuba? Before or after the clinical case of … Continue reading “FEBRUARY 23 #OZT / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo”
Who could have told the patriarch Fidel Castro that in the autumn of his years he would find an ally to repeal the Cuban Adjustment Act, and not among his starched-brain little spokespeople in the leftist corners of the world, but among Miami’s ranks of the ultra-right-wing itself? If he had the strength for it, … Continue reading “Brain Adjustment Act / Ernesto Morales Licea”
Once again Cuban society darkens from the avoidable death of another of its members. The peaceful protestor Wilman Villar Mendoza was detained in a police offensive carried out in Contramaestre, a province of Santiago of Cuba, unjustly and quickly condemned to 4 years in jail for working with a free conscience, in a trial behind … Continue reading “Another Irreplaceable Loss / Rosa María Rodríguez Torrado”
Once again Cuban society darkens from the avoidable death of another of its members. The peaceful protestor Wilman Villar Mendoza was detained in a police offensive carried out in Contramaestre, a province of Santiago of Cuba, unjustly and quickly condemned to 4 years in jail for working with a free conscience, in a trial behind … Continue reading “Another Irreplaceable Loss”
CID Executive in San Juan y Martinez Activists of the Cuban Independent and Democractic Party (CID) in the municipality of San Juan y Martinez met at the home of Rasbel Espinosa Caraballo, located in the Jesus Menendez Cooperative, Monterey, San Juan y Martinez municipality, on the afternoon of Sunday, December 4 to select the new … Continue reading “Choosing the New CID Executive in the Municipality of San Juan y Martinez / Katia Sonia”
It is not surprising how many people go out in mass, before any revolutionary summons. In Cuba, the State is the absolute owner of everything; hospitals, schools, radio and television stations, hotels, discotheques, restaurants. The State is the sole employer. At the address of each one of these places, there appear the photos of the … Continue reading “Very few…”
Another tragic event focused again on the eastern Cuban provinces started the year. Wilman Villar Mendoza, sentenced to four years’ imprisonment, died after conducting a hunger strike, which has rocked the Cuban dissidence and international public opinion which follows events of the island. The rapidity with which these events developed surprised everyone. In October of … Continue reading “One More Time / Rafael León Rodríguez”
Cuba, the little island difficult to locate in the Caribbean Sea and the big booty in the new world order. Often I hear that it is under siege by the voracious appetite of the empire, its eternal enemy. Other big powers in the great Europe also lurk for prey. A nice opening for a fiction … Continue reading “Resonance / Laritza Diversent”
Political police officials and government snitches watch over house of Luis Felipe Rojas in San German, Holguin. They are neither that accidental nor that inevitable. That’s the slogan of a national TV spot in Cuba. A beauty which allows itself to play amid warnings and statistics of accidents. Like that, for some time now, what … Continue reading “Accidents / Luis Felipe Rojas”
The Executive Committee of the Party for an Independent and Democratic Cuba (CID) has launched an appeal calling on all Cuban women to unite in demanding their rights and freedoms, in a statement read out by Santa Clara activist Gladys Beatriz Medina González and the Ladies in White, after attending the Sunday mass and march … Continue reading “CID Appeals to All Cuban Women to Unite in Demanding Their Freedom / Katia Sonia”
At the end of December, at 8:30 at night, I was assaulted in public by State Security agent Volodia, along with another agent whose name I don’t know, at 26th Street and Zapata. They asked me to take off the T-shirt I was wearing with an image of Laura Pollán. Faced with my refusal, both … Continue reading “Faces Against Audacity / El Sexto – Danilo Maldonado Machado”
