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Dear Marilyn: Thanks for sending me the three letters. I am completely in agreement with Desiderio and Arturo. Really, I had already begun to worry some months ago when I read the incoherent letter from Guillermo Rodríguez Rivera on the subject of “The Bridge,” which, because of the pathetic quality of some fragments, could be … Continue reading “Message from Mirta Yáñez / POLEMICA: The 2007 Intellectual Debate”

I think that creating a climate of concern and anger among Cuban intellectuals at the moment is the best service you’ve been able to provide to the ideological enemy. I think you have to get away from this tendency to make amends for and single out people who, geared towards I don’t know whom and … Continue reading “Message from Magaly Sánchez / POLEMICA: The 2007 Intellectual Debate”

Outside Cuba there are revolutionary intellectuals who chose to emigrate when it was impossible to make their thinking public. Subtly, the access to publishers and university classrooms was blocked. There is also a generation of young professionals who are now between 30 to 40, who are educated in revolutionary principles. They left for economic reasons but also because … Continue reading “Message from Magaly Muguercia / POLEMICA: The 2007 Intellectual Debate”

After so many years of being gagged, we couldn’t hope for anything other than this discordant chorus in which voices climb, one above the other – you have to answer the opinion issued yesterday, also be quiet, stop just long enough to be read and overlap with others that are already collected on our computers or … Continue reading “Discordant Chorus – Leticia Córdoba / POLEMICA: The 2007 Intellectual Debate”

Dear Reynaldo González: In the middle of the little avalanche of e-mails that have been stirred up by Luis Pavón’s return to the stage, I have respectfully read your views. I am writing just to let you know that I fully agree with you, with every one of your words. Only in place of “mistakes,” … Continue reading “Message from Ena Lucía Portela / POLEMICA: The 2007 Intellectual Debate”

Respected colleagues: I have learned, by email, about part of the exchange of opinions stirred up by the appearance on the Cuban TV program “Imprint” about Luis Pavón and Jorge Serguera, interviewed in “The Difference.” I don’t know the contents, and now I’m actually in Spain invited by the Ateneo “Jovellanos” de Gijón. I confess … Continue reading “Message from Loly Estévez / POLEMICA: The 2007 Intellectual Debate”

I am writing to you at the wrong time perhaps, but better late than never, as the well-known adage says. The monastic life I have been leading in one of the programs of the Battle of Ideas has dramatically separated me from my usual contacts with the cultural world; hence the controversy unloosed around the … Continue reading “Message from Leonel Brito / POLEMICA: The 2007 Intellectual Debate”

Dear Desideri, Receive once more a warm embrace from this friend “beyond the capital.” I welcome your fair challenge to the title of “GROUP” being applied to the large and diverse number of participants in the current debate, and the last paragraphs, about our “culture of spectacle” (and their “controls”), motivate me even more. But … Continue reading “Messages from José Rojas Bez / POLEMICA: The 2007 Intellectual Debate”

– From Josefina de Diego – I confess that I didn’t remember the full text known as “Words to the Intellectuals,” delivered by Fidel Castro on June 30, 1961, at the National Library to a group of intellectuals. I think that, like many people, the only thing I remembered from the text was his famous … Continue reading “Thoughts on Fidel’s “Words to the Intellectuals” and other texts / POLEMICA: The 2007 Intellectual Debate”