The wife and son of Hector Riscart, El Ñaño from Fresa Chocolate on Vimeo. ZURAIMA’s Cell phone (Hector’s wife): 52519247 The trial is tomorrow, April 13th; we beg the international media to be there and document this political crusade against the Rastafarian movement in Cuba. Please don’t let Hector’s children grow up without him. The … Continue reading “‘El Ñaño’ of Cuba: One Less Rastifarian Priest / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo”
Everyone around does it. To burn it is a pleasure. Smoking recovers speech hijacked, first by the country’s despotism and later by their own paranoid personalities. Smoking they fornicate (the smoke blocks them and forces them to look themselves in the eye during pleasure). Smoking founds their mercenary Made-in-USAID projects (according to the official press). … Continue reading “In Good Weed Trust / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo”
In Cuba, with its pregnant history of violent acts, we pay exaggerated attention to episodes of war in detriment to other ways of making history, such as science–forger of knowledge and of culture–that contributes so much to the formation of nationality the nation and the country over centuries. On May 19 of this year we … Continue reading “Heroes Without Weapons / Dimas Castellanos”
Why is everyone so sad here? I promise to ask the poet, while at the Hanoi playground in an unnumbered area of Alamar: a once breathing tribute to the great defeat of Yankee imperialism in Asia, today bleak without benches but not without sweating drunks, shouting while they play chess or kiss mouth to toothless … Continue reading “A DAY OF JUAN CARLOS FLORES IN DIARIO DE CUBA… / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo”
Near but Distant: The Universe Next Door Yoss In 1998, during the only visit to Cuba by a pope, Juan Pablo II delivered the now famous phrase, Let the world open itself to Cuba, let Cuba open itself to the world. Leaving aside the multiple sociopolitical implications of the phrase to concentrate on its literary … Continue reading “Review in VOICES 1 / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo”
I met Pedro Cruz Mackenzie when we were both taking university prep classes. It was during those difficult years which came to be known as the Special Period. In between classes we would entertain ourselves by collecting oranges, bananas, and any other source of food we could get to ease that hunger which was so … Continue reading “A Freed Black Man / Luis Felipe Rojas”
Juan Eugenio Leal García Palmira, Cienfuegos, Cuba, December 27, 1952. Education: Polytechnic Institute of Chemistry. (1981-1983) * Degree: Chemical Engineer Military Technical Institute “José Martí”. (1983-1989) * Degree: Mechanical Engineer, specializing in Engine Systems of Piloted Aircraft Institute of Biblical and Theological Studies. * Degree: Bachelor of Biblical and Theological Studies. (1999-2002) * Degree: Masters … Continue reading “Eugenio Leal”
Breaking: The Russians are coming back to Cuba, this time as tourists and with hard currency. And these last few days there has also been a fleet of enormous Russian ships, bristling with weaponry and radar, at anchor in Havana’s port. The intentions of both governments are clear. Castro II wants to ask for a … Continue reading “Russia is Coming Back”