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Let’s talk about Steve Jobs, Freedom, and how an official from Cuban Intelligence can’t turn off an iPod. Like the Cuban language itself (impossible), like the poverty into which the imagination here has fallen, like the remains of the island culture (fortunately now Balkanized without origins or teleologies of chastity), like our insulting ignorance of … Continue reading “I WAS IMPRISONED, COMPAÑEROS / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo”

A well-known director, with the successful underground saga of Nicanor and numerous jobs as a scriptwriter, Eduardo del Llano had lit expectations with his first feature film. Thus a preview of the news that his film had not been admitted to the competition at the Festival de Cine de la Habana aroused interest. He speculated … Continue reading “Stumbles / Regina Coyula”

Like every respected communist leader, Julio Antonio Mella* was not named Julio Antonio Mella, but something like Nicanor McPartland y Diez (almost an Eduardo del Llano character). As any Cuban political of some importance in the twentieth century, he was a bastard son (maybe our best Cubanologist will ultimately be Dr. Sigmund Freud). In Cuba, … Continue reading “MELLA IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo”

Before Reading Even for an uneducated Customs official, to whom the name of Antonio José Ponte means nothing, a book titled Villa Marista Exposed would stop the inspection line, given that Villa Marista is the headquarters of Cuba’s security services. But the official was more jealous of my gluten-free sausages — so beautiful in their … Continue reading “Speaking Bluntly / Regina Coyula”

When I read the latest episode of Eduardo del Llano, with his movie “Vinci” not being admitted into the upcoming International Festival of New Latin American Cinema in Havana, I can’t escape the memory of a charming passage in my short history as a television writer. It occurred to us, the producers of a television … Continue reading “"Vinci": Leonardo and Mick Jagger Against Intellectual Guajirismo / Ernesto Morales Licea”

At nine in the evening of December 31, coinciding with the guns of the Morro of Havana and after the staging of poems by representatives of OMNI ZONA FRANCA, Voices 12, the digital magazine of the alternative Cuban blogosphere, was presented. 12 issues say goodbye to 2011 and welcome to the twelfth year of the … Continue reading “VOICES 12 / Miguel Iturria Savón / Miguel Iturría Savón”

The year’s most anticipated month is December, with its cold fronts that allow us to “bundle up” and with the films of International Festival of the New Latin American Cinema. I remember, in particular, one evening in 1992 when the glass in the doors of the Acapulco cinema shattered before the onslaught of hundreds of … Continue reading “The Dark Side of the Festival / Yoani Sánchez”