English Translations of Cubans Writing From the Island
The poet went into exile in the Spanish capital, and Cabrera in the United States. Both were part of a Republic that had gone down the drain. 14ymedio, Xavier Carbonell, Salamanca, 28 December 2024 – How could Lydia Cabrera and Gastón Baquero speak to each other except as two Napoleonic marshals after Waterloo, or as … Continue reading “‘I Breathe Through Memory’, Gastón Baquero’s Letters to Lydia Cabrera”
ECLAC gives, for the first time, figures of femicides on the Island, but they are much lower than those reported by independent sources 14ymedio, Havana, 22 November 2024 — The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has included Cuba for the first time in its annual report on femicides in the region. … Continue reading “Cuba Has the Third Highest Rate of Femicides in Latin America”
14ymedio, Natalia López Moya, Havana, 1 December 2024 –Inseparable companion of the wedge of guava and constant presence in the hands of the sellers who display their merchandise on the sides of the road, white or Creole cheese was so common in our lives that we only knew how to value it when it began … Continue reading “The Lack of Milk and the Import of Gouda Are Burying Cuba’s Own Creole Cheese”
On November 10, Daynilis Lobaina Torrell was attacked by her partner in her home in Maisí 14ymedio, Havana, 16 November 2024 — Daynilis Lobaina Torrell, 30, was the victim of a femicide murder on November 10 in her home in the municipality of Maisí, in Guantánamo. According to what her family and other close sources … Continue reading “Mother of Two Girls Murdered With a Machete in Guantanamo, Cuba”
In just one year, eggplant, little liked on the Island, has doubled in price 14ymedio, Natalia López Moya, Havana, 17 November 2024 — A few years ago, eggplant was one of the few crops that did not have to be protected from thieves. While the farmers, with machetes hanging from their belts, guarded the garlic … Continue reading “Eggplant, a Food That Evokes Memories and Completes the Dish”
The femicide of Vania Mojeda, age 43, is the 44th this year 14ymedio, Havana, 15 November 2024 — Vania Mojena, 43 years old and a resident of the town of Mabay, near the city of Bayamo, in Granma, was murdered last Wednesday, November 13, by her partner. The femicide, the second of November and number … Continue reading “A Mother of Three Children Is Killed With a Machete by Her Partner in Granma, Cuba”
The murder of stylist Disneys Borrero, in San Miguel del Padrón, was another of the murders reported this week 14ymedio, Havana, 14 November 2024 — The independent platforms Alas Tensas and Yo Sí Te Creo en Cuba (YSTC) confirmed a new femicide on Thursday. It is that of Elaine González Estrada, whose body was found … Continue reading “Cuba: Woman Reported Missing in Santa Clara Found Dead in Her Ex-Partner’s Home”
14ymedio, Xavier Carbonell, Salamanca, 6 October 2024 — Yes, I also got carried away by nostalgia and went to a Cuban restaurant in Madrid. I’m not going to say which one, because the life of an emigrant is hard, and setting up a business – a pitiful one, but I’m getting ahead of myself – … Continue reading “For the Cuban Mind, Terse Questions”
Images collected by 14ymedio show a capital city that is filthy and full of beggars 14ymedio, Juan Izquierdo, Havana, 26 August 2024 – Much has changed in Havana since, in 1837, the French painter Federico Mialhe arrived in Cuba to make his fortune with his brushes. A prosperous and vibrant city, the prints he left, … Continue reading “Ruin and Neglect, the Latest Images of Havana Provoke Pity Rather Than Pride”
14ymedio, Mercedes García/Natalia López Moya, Sancti Spíritus/Havana, July 7, 2024 — No, lime is not the basis of everything but it is an essential ingredient in many recipes of Cuban cuisine and cocktails. The Creole mojo that is put on the cassava, the marinade that is plastered on the pork before cooking and the mojito … Continue reading “The Creole Lime, Another Item Missing From Cuban Tables”
Yo Sí Te Creo in Cuba asks the authorities to look for the boat, whose location is unknown, where 19 people with hardly any drinking water are holding out 14ymedio, Havana, June 3, 2024 — Melisa Odaisi Peraza Cabrera, 24, who has been missing since May 14, is part of a group of 19 Cuban … Continue reading “A Young Cuban Woman Missing for Three Weeks Left With a Group of Rafters”
Eggs cost 3,500 pesos per carton of 30 in the informal market, compared to 2,000 a year ago 14ymedio, Havana, 14 April 2024 — In the ’80s, when the Soviet subsidy had created the mirage of prosperity in Cuba, in primary schools, along with names and mockery for physical appearance, it was common to insult … Continue reading “In Cuba One Egg, a Common Food, Now Costs More Than the Daily Pension of a Retiree”
14ymedio, Natalia López Moya, Havana, March 24, 2024 — Yucca with creole mojo, tamales with a good portion of sofrito on top and the marinade for meat. In each there is an ingredient that leads and surpasses in importance to all the others: garlic. Cuban cuisine basically smells like the aromatic condiment that accompanies a … Continue reading “The Creole Mojo Falters With the Rise in Price of Garlic in Cuba”
14ymedio, Havana, 3 March 2024 — Samantha Heredia, a 22-year-old nurse, was murdered in Santiago de Cuba by her husband, Dr. Pedro Carmenate. An employee of the Juan Bruno Zayas Clinical Surgical Hospital in the eastern capital, where the victim and aggressor met and the latter worked as a resident doctor, confirmed the news to 14ymedio. … Continue reading “A Nurse is Assassinated by Her Husband, a Doctor in Santiago de Cuba”
14ymedio, Havana, 6 February 2024 — From Santa Clara to Havana, from Havana to Cancun, from Cancun to Miami. The trip of Brandy, a five-year-old Creole dog, was not very different from the one its owners made twelve months ago. But the reunion had a price: tensions, bribes to process the documentation and $3,000 in … Continue reading “Even Cuban Dogs Arrive Illegally in the United States”
