English Translations of Cubans Writing From the Island
In the midst of blackouts affecting the entire country, the artist will have his island of light tonight at the University of Havana Havana, Darío Hernández, September 19, 2025 — Two red mastodons stand out in front of the University of Havana this Friday. Although the stage for the concert that Silvio Rodríguez will offer … Continue reading “Powerful Generators Guarantee Silvio Rodríguez’s Concert has Electricity”
In the absence of uniforms, many young people wear casual clothing and even a garment until recently banned in schools, the ‘jeans of the Empire’. 14ymedio, Havana, 1 September 2025 –The beginning of the school year in Cuba, this Monday, was far from the epic repeated by the state media, between promises of “celebration” and … Continue reading “The New School Year Starts in Cuba With Full Classrooms, Few Teachers and Empty Backpacks”
Domesticated reformers and Taliban clash as regime collapses 14ymedio, Yunior García Aguilera, Madrid, 5 August 2025 — The recent interview with singer and composer Israel Rojas on the program La Sobremesa, on La Joven Cuba (LJC), has sparked intense controversy on both sides of the Cuban political spectrum. For some, it was an attempt to … Continue reading “Israel Rojas, ‘La Joven Cuba’ and the Art of Surviving the Collapse”
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”
“Right now, it’s full of police officers, and there are 40 informants watching everything.” 14ymedio, Mercedes García, Sancti Spíritus, 20 June 2025 — This Friday morning, new posters against the Cuban regime appeared on the boulevard of Sancti Spíritus. Near the shopping plaza, one of those spaces beautified with a brushstroke by the authorities to … Continue reading “Fidel Castro is Resurrected With Insulting Graffiti in Sancti Spíritus, Cuba”
“It’s still cheaper to buy a 6GB package on the street for 1,000 or 1,500 pesos, not this 2GB scam for 1,200 pesos.” 14ymedio, Havana, 19 June 2025 — The new data plans for web browsing of the Cuban Telecommunications Company (Etecsa), announced on Thursday — after three weeks of student protests over the price … Continue reading “Etecsa Manages To Intensify the Indignation of Cubans With Two New Internet Plans”
A report by Cuba Siglo 21 attributes the decision to increase the tariffs to the military conglomerate Gaesa. 14ymedio, Madrid, 12 June 2025 — It’s not the “US blockade” that “strangles imports” or the “fraudulent websites” that divert international recharges, as the Cuban officials rushed to maintain. The reasons for the dramatic drop in revenues … Continue reading “The Ordering Task, Emigration and the Fall in Tourism Interfered With Etecsa’s Lucrative State Telecommunications Business”
Days before the ‘rate increase’, no one could have predicted that the students would regain their rebellion. 14ymedio, Yoani Sánchez, Generation Y, Havana, 18 June 2025 — The Cuban regime is holding its breath. There are only a few days left until the end of the academic year in all the island’s faculties, a period … Continue reading “The Cuban University Wakes Up After Decades of Being Gagged”
An audio recording reveals Miriam Nicado García’s pressure to get students to abandon their protest against Etecsa’s rate hike. 14ymedio, Yunior García Aguilera, Madrid, 17 June 2025 — The recently leaked audio recording of a meeting between the rector of the University of Havana, Miriam Nicado García, and students dissatisfied with the so-called ‘Tarifazo’ — … Continue reading “‘If It’s a Strike, Then It Is Counterrevolution,’ Warned the Rector of the University of Havana”
They emphasize students’ willingness to engage in dialogue, but point out that the conditions for this “cannot be imposed from above.” 14ymedio, Havana, 15 June 2024 — Cuban academics continue to refuse to submit to the pressures of the Regime. This Saturday an official statement of the of the Audiovisual Media of the Higher Institute … Continue reading “Cuba’s Arts Students Criticize the ‘Aggressive’ Attitude of the State Communications Company Etecsa and State Security”
Priest Alberto Reyes calls on the Security Forces to reflect on their role in defending the Cuban dictatorship. 14ymedio, Havana, 14 June 2025 — “How can you lend yourself to harassing and intimidating young people who perhaps have the same thoughts and ideals as your own children?” This is how Father Alberto Reyes addresses those … Continue reading ““The People Are an Enemy That Must Be Controlled in the Defense of Power in Cuba””
Another university student warns, in the face of the advance of dollarization, that the country “also belongs to those of us who don’t have dollars.” 14ymedio, Havana, 13 June 2025 — “I don’t want any more DTI [Department of Technical Investigations] people in my house,” a young medical student blurts out in front of her … Continue reading ““I Don’t Want Any More DTI People in My House,” Complains a Cuban Medical Student in Las Tunas”
Priest Lester Zayas’s car was vandalized, and a photo taken at the nursing home of nun Nadieska Almeida was manipulated. 14ymedio, Havana, June 9, 2025 — “I don’t think, I don’t hope, I don’t see anything of value in the revolution. So many lies, so many ways to crush my people, so many deceptive promises”. … Continue reading “The Tone Is Raised Between the Critical Church Leaders and the Cuban Regime”
They warn that the currency will reach or even exceed 400 pesos. 14ymedio, Madrid, June 9, 2025 — The calm that parallel exchange rates have experienced in Cuba over the past year seems to be coming to an end. So believes the Cuban Currency and Finance Observatory (OMFi), which shared on Monday its monthly report … Continue reading “Experts Predict a ‘Busier’ June for the Dollar Exchange Rate in Cuba”
In the eastern province, the dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences has threatened students, while the university rector asks for “no repression.” 14ymedio, Havana, 9 June 2025 — The students of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computing (Matcom) of the University of Havana, the first student group to call a strike against Etecsa’s price increases … Continue reading “The Matcom Strike Against Etecsa in Havana is Called Off But Maintained in Holguín”
