English Translations of Cubans Writing From the Island
Our adolescence was fertilized with novels and TV series that marked our aesthetics and personalities. How many times did we read the novels, “Here the Sands are Cleaner,” “If I Die Tomorrow,” or the series “It Had to Be in Silence,” with most of us enjoying those fantasies of socialist heroes who, guided by Cuban … Continue reading “Facing State Counterintelligence Part 1 / Angel Santiesteban #Cuba”
Mr. Raul Castro Ruz, In recent days a horde of soldiers and officers from “State Security,” most in plainclothes, who are located in Section 21 (headquarters of “Counterintelligence”), attacked a peaceful group, of which I was a part and that was in front of the police station at Acosta and 10 de Octubre Streets, to … Continue reading “Open Letter to the President of Cuba by the Writer Angel Santiesteban-Prats / Angel Santiesteban”
Translator’s note: 800 Cuban pesos is approximately $30.00 US
“I’m happy, I’m doing my duty.” #OlaRepresiva #FreeRodiles Interview filmed by Claudio Fuentes Madan My name is Angel Santiesteban Prats, I’m a writer and Cuban blogger, government opponent. It was really sad what happened there, the whole world has seen the terrible video, where unfortunately we show what happens in Cuba every day. Thank God … Continue reading “Testimony of Angel Santiesteban after the events on Thursday, November 8, 2012 / Angel Santiesteban”
November 11 2012
Translator’s note: This blog post does NOT relate to Angel’s most recent arrest this week. It relates to a series of criminal charges the regime fabricated against him in order to be able to imprison him as a “criminal” rather than as a “political prisoner/prisoner of conscience” for his writings. Last Monday they finally decided … Continue reading “The Solitude of the Desert / Angel Santiesteban”
November 11 2012
I call the information number 106 of the National Revolutionary Police. They inform me that Angel Santiesteban-Prats had been “restored” by which they mean to say released since yesterday, after having been interned since the afternoon of Thursday. I call the Duty Officer at the Santiago de las Vegas Station, Lieutenant Emeritus at (537)-6833734, and … Continue reading “Location Uncertain of the Cuban Writer Imprisoned and on Hunger Strike: Angel Santiesteban / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo”
Translator’s note: This blog post does NOT relate to Angel’s most recent arrest this week. It relates to a series of criminal charges the regime fabricated against him in order to be able to imprison him as a “criminal” rather than as a “political prisoner/prisoner of conscience” for his writings. After the “Cuban government” made … Continue reading “The “Prosecutor” Drops The Most Serious Charges Against Me / Angel Santiesteban”
The photographer Claudio Fuentes Madan and Estado de Sats activist, Antonio G. Rodiles, since their violent and arbitrary arrests days ago, are on a HUNGER AND THIRST in protest and resistance against the political police and the murderers of our citizens. Both continue to be INCOMMUNICADO or MISSING in the Castro prisons of the municipality … Continue reading “ON HUNGER AND THRIST STRIKE: Antonio Rodiles, Claudio Fuentes and Angel Santiesteban / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo”
November 9 2012
A neighbor told me that the re-involution of ’59 had taken property from owners but had not found a substitute. The director of a business will never be the owner, never have the sense of ownership over what he administers. To illustrate that there are more than thousands or millions of examples, it would suffice … Continue reading “Socialism = Inefficiency / Angel Santiesteban”
Recently I learned, although it has not yet been publicly announced, that the Havana Historian Dr. Eusebio Leal Spengler, has retired his economic motor: “Habaguanex.” I am sure that this gentleman will come to be known as one of the few citizens of the Cuban Archipelago who, in the last 54 years, has done commendable … Continue reading “The Probable Ingratitude of Men / Angel Santiesteban”
As in the great circus, this year, on the centenary of the birth of the great writer, the “official culture” of the island has fired the warning shot that tells the contestants that the fight has begun. The regime has raised the vestiges of censorship that still remained on the famous intellectual, whom they made … Continue reading “The Sad Centenary of Virgilio Pinera – Part II / Angel Santiesteban”
It has always surprised me how Cuban intellectuals, particularly the generation that lived through the seventies, which later came to be called “the five gray years,” have this bad public memory, and in general, among people they trust, they express the pain they still feel for the abuses committed against them by the functionaries faithful … Continue reading “The Sad Centenary of Virgilio Pinera – Part I / Angel Santiesteban”
