English Translations of Cubans Writing From the Island
Leonardo Calvo, 84 years of age, historian and political scientist and Juan Antonio Madrazo, 42, specialist in management and food services, are now two of the most lucid and coherent voices on the map of Cuban opposition. They are dissidents for two reasons. On the one hand, Calvo for 20 years and Madrazo for six, … Continue reading “The Time for Racial Integration in Cuba / Iván García”
Health workers complain of a lack of staff and medicines, too many patients to care for, and a terrible hygiene situation. 14ymedio, Ángel Salinas, Mexico City, 30 May 2025 — Going on a mission doesn’t always mean an improvement. The five Cuban doctors who arrived several weeks ago at the Los Mochis General Hospital in … Continue reading “Five Cuban Doctors in Sinaloa Are Facing the Same Health Crisis as the Island”
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”
Mayker Filema Duarte calls those who removed him on Sunday “traitors.” An inside source claims it was an attempted coup by the Supreme Council against the Grand Lodge. 14ymedio, Havana, May 27, 2025 — In a statement dated Monday, May 26, Mayker Filema Duarte rejected his impeachment as Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of … Continue reading ““We Are Going To Purge All Impurity in Our Institution,” Warns the Grand Master of the Cuban Masons”
The couple also met with two people who enjoy maximum confidence from the regime, Lourdes and Rodolfo Dávalos 14ymedio, Juan Izquierdo, Havana, 20 November 2024 — Manuel Anido Cuesta is the only young man in the stuffy photo of the Cuban delegation that met with Pope Francis in 2023. His stepfather, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, … Continue reading “Cuban Actress Ana de Armas Has Found “A New Flame” With Díaz-Canel’s Stepson”
Cuban State Security monitors Serafín Sánchez Park without intervening in the event 14ymedio, Mercedes García, Sancti Spíritus, 8 October 2024 — At least a hundred people, most of them very young, gathered this Monday in the Serafín Sánchez park, in the heart of Sancti Spíritus, for an evening of prayer and tribute to José Manuel … Continue reading “A Crowd of Young People Hold a Vigil in Sancti Spíritus for the Health of El Taiger”
The Island needs Mexican oil in exchange for thousands of doctors 14ymedio/EFE, Madrid, 30 September 2024 — This Sunday, Miguel Díaz-Canel was the first president to arrive in Mexico for the inauguration of the incoming president Claudia Sheinbaum, which will be held tomorrow, Tuesday, October 1, four months after she was elected as the successor … Continue reading “The Presidency of Cuba Announces that Díaz-Canel Is Visiting Mexico for the Fifth Time Since 2018”
14ymedio, Havana, 19 March 19, 2023 — Cuba’s official press doesn’t hide the tension before the semifinal of the World Baseball Classic, which will take place today in Miami when the Cuban national team faces the United States team, which beat Venezuela yesterday by 9 to 7. The day has already taken on political overtones, … Continue reading “High Tension a Few Hours Before the Cuba-US Semifinal in the World Baseball Classic in Miami”
14ymedio, Yoani Sanchez, Generation Y, Havana, 17 November 2019 — Havana was a city of carnivals and masks. Although the times of revelry passed long ago, this city is covered – whenever necessary – with convenient layers of makeup. Years ago, when a pope visited the island, the authorities painted the facades and cleaned the streets through … Continue reading “The Masks of Havana”
14ymedio, Havana, 19 October 2019 — In the absence of official information from the Cuban side about the lightning visit to Mexico made last Thursday by President Miguel Díaz-Canel, the newspaper La Jornada revealed that the goal was to get oil “at affordable prices,” according to the Mexico’s Foreign Ministry Secretary for Latin America and the Caribbean, … Continue reading “Oil "At Affordable Prices" Leads Cuban President Diaz-Canel to Mexico”
Iván García, 2 February 2019 — “An organized society, a planned economy, a socialist government, will always have reserves so that no one is left homeless,” President Miguel Diaz-Canel wrote in his Twitter account. Nobody in Cuba is left homeless after a natural catastrophe, tragic accident or serious illness, said Fidel and Raul Castro in the … Continue reading “Thousands of People Need Urgent Help in Havana (and the Names of the Deceased) / Ivan Garcia”
Ivan Garcia, 23 April 2018 — Lacking the solemnity of a conclave in the Vatican to elect a pope or the white smoke announcing the new Holy Father, on Thursday, April 19, at the Convention Center, west of Havana, the new Council of State and its president were announced, those who will rule the destinies of … Continue reading “Cuba: We Have a President (or a Puppet) / Iván García”
Announcements made by United States President Barack Obama and his administration have sparked an intense controversy about the Cuban conflict. Many opponents and civil society activists, within the island and in exile, have lamented, especially, the lack of transparency and the unilateral and unconditional nature of the new measures. It is indisputable and indispensable that … Continue reading “Forum for Rights and Freedoms / Estado de Sats (see endnote)”
14ymedio, 12 December 2014 – The independent promoter Matraka Productions expressed its regret in a statement about the damage the Associated Press has done to the unofficial cultural sector by linking the receipt of grants from the US to allegedly subversive actions. This Thursday the American agency published the results of an investigation, which claims … Continue reading “Matraka Productions regrets that the Associated Press “Revelations” damage the independent cultural sector / 14ymedio”
Presentation of the Demand For Another Cuba. Friday, 4 May 2013, 4-8 pm. Free. Location: Cubaocho, 1465 SW 8th St. #106, Miami, Florida 33135 Poster Exhibition: Alcides, Annelys, Aristides, Garrincha, Gugulandia, Lauzan, Lavastida, Lia, Ley Tejuca, Manuel Bu, Olema, Pong, Pulido, Regueral, Santana, Villazan. Panelists: Carlos Alberto Montaner, Darsi Ferrer, Luis Felipe Rojas, Antonio G. … Continue reading “For Another Cuba, In Miami on Saturday”
