English Translations of Cubans Writing From the Island
Angel and his son Eduardo Angel Santiesteban, whom they tried to pressure to implicate his father. By Amir Valle Part Two II. The Judicial Web of Outrage False Evidence On July 29, 2009, Angel Santiesteban was detained, accused of having raped his ex-wife, Kenie Rodriguez, from whom he’d been separated for 4 years and who … Continue reading “Angel Santiesteban: General Chronology of an Outrage II / Amir Valle”
By Amir Valle Part 1 The renowned Cuban writer Ángel Santiesteban Prats has been sentenced to five years imprisonment for writing against the Cuban dictatorship from his blog “The Children Nobody wanted”. The news now travels the world. As part of the strategy of overwhelming repression practiced by the Cuban political police since the arrival … Continue reading “Angel Santiesteban Prats: General Chronology of an Outrage / Amir Valle”
Angel and Regina In Minority Report, the precogs were used in the pre-crime unit to predict possible murders. Already the presupposition is morally questionable while at the same time familiar as we have seen in our own Penal Code the “crime” of “pre-criminal dangerousness.” But can graphology emulate the precog, or at least can prove … Continue reading “Angel Santiesteban and the Handwriting Expert / Regina Coyula”
The writer Angel Santiesteban-Prats is now in La Lima prison, located in Guanabacoa. He was transferred there on Saturday after spending a day in Valle Grande prison where he wrote this post, the first that we have from him in his captivity. Each and every one of the posts he writes we will publish here … Continue reading “Angel Santiesteban Prats: Prison Diary 1 / Angel Santiesteban”
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He spent the last night with his friends and his son, the boy who was used by his mother and whose statement the Court later manipulated to condemn him. He read us stories from his book “Blessed Are Those Who Mourn.” This book you can hunt for now. In Cuba it’s no longer seen. They … Continue reading “Angel Santiesteban in Prison / Lilianne Ruiz”
The Cuban government’s closeted or open friends are right to speak and write about transformations in the repressive work of the regime. It’s true, there are always others persecuted. In each period there are new names and faces. There lie the real changes. This week, the PEN Club’s Writers in Prison Committee has issued a … Continue reading “The Changes and the PEN Club / Angel Santiesteban”
Today, Wednesday, Angel Santiesteban’s time as a free man is running out. Cuban society doesn’t give a damn. Maybe they’re right. When they hear talk of culture, they reach for their gun (or worse, their wallet). The Cuban intelligentsia will probably hear of this when they release Angel Santiesteban within 5 years, days before or … Continue reading “Zone of Silence, the last event before prison for Angel Santiesteban / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo”
Lia Villares: An emotional night with Angel Santiesteban at Estado de Sats: his last minutes of freedom. 28 February 2013
Zone of Silence Presentation and lecture by Ángel Santiesteban Wednesday 27 February at 6:00pm. You can send text messages of support to the writer at: 53716460 53233726 You can follow the presentation live via Twitter @estadodesats @AGRodiles @ailermaria @aimaraperez28 @solucioncuba Place: Estado de Sats headquarters Address: Ave 1ra % 46 y 60 #4606 . Miramar. … Continue reading “Angel Santiesteban, Scheduled To Go To Prison February 28th, Will Give a Presentation at Estado de Sats on the 27th”
CUBA: Two journalists jailed, one writer sentenced to five years in prison The Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) of PEN International protests a renewed wave of repression and harassment against journalists and writers in Cuba, including the imprisonment of two journalists and the conviction of a writer. Independent journalist Calixto Ramón Martínez Arias has been … Continue reading “Action of the International Pen Club for Calixto Martinez, Antonio Torres and Angel Santiesteban / Angel Santiesteban”
Moments ago my latest book Isla Interior was published in the journal Otro Lunes in a digital edition available for free download. This is a compilation of posts that make up this blog and that have so greatly irritated the dictatorship. My appreciation to all who participated in this edition: Michael H. Miranda, Sindo Pacheco, … Continue reading “Worldwide Launch of Angel Santiesteban Prats, Latest Book / Angel Santiesteban”
The Cuban Writers Club publishes an explanatory note apologizing for the mistake of including “… the name of Raul Antonio Capote, an improbable democrat, and confessed agent of the political police who is also a civic thinker. This triggered Cuban alarms, including ours, and we urgently reviewed the error and its causes, clearly unintentional, a … Continue reading “Cuban Writers Club and an Involuntary Mistake / Angel Santiesteban”
Amir Valle in a photo by Anna Weisse published on the writer’s web page. After being denied the Casa de las Americas award by the irreverence of his work, Habana Babilonia, the Dark Side of Prostitution, Amir Valle received an award that made up for any censorship: more than 5,000 messages from underground readers celebrating … Continue reading “How Amir Valle Came to be a Writer Who Was Read / Angel Santiesteban”
By El Manisero (The Peanut Seller) In this article, our Cuban contributor condemns Ángel Santiesteban’s prison sentence and the grave situation regarding political prisoners in Cuba. The Human Rights and National Reconciliation Commission recently published a report about political prisoners of the dictatorial regime of the Castro brothers, which was made known by its spokesman, … Continue reading “The number of political prisoners in Cuba is doubling: the case of Angel Santiesteban / Angel Santiesteban”
