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The Conspiracy Exposed: Who is Behind Estado de Sats? / Estado de Sats, Alexis Jardines

While it is considered a construction of State Security by some extreme anti-Castro types, and a creature of the CIA by the Cuban government’s cyber-Talibans, the independent Estado de Sats project successfully works for the promotion of civil society and the transition to democracy. Presumably the reasons that motivate both diametrically opposed interpretations of the … Continue reading “The Conspiracy Exposed: Who is Behind Estado de Sats? / Estado de Sats, Alexis Jardines”

Interview of Cuban writer Ángel Santiesteban Prats by Amir Valle – Part 4 of 4

Public spaces In a recent column I published an anecdote with which I’m sure you agree: our meeting in 2004, by chance, on the corner of Palacio de los Matrimonios in Vedado, after months without seeing each other, in which, very concerned about the political and cultural pressures you were under, you told me, “You’re … Continue reading “Interview of Cuban writer Ángel Santiesteban Prats by Amir Valle – Part 4 of 4”

Interview of Cuban writer Ángel Santiesteban Prats by Amir Valle – Part 3 of 4

Literary spaces There are five moments in your literary career that I want you to talk about, trying to salvage the most important details, those details of each success that would mold you into being the writer you are now, or those other moments that made you open your eyes to the harsh reality that … Continue reading “Interview of Cuban writer Ángel Santiesteban Prats by Amir Valle – Part 3 of 4”

Official Proof of Censorship Against My Book “Boring Home” / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo

In 2008, my book of stories Boring Home, was ready to be published by the State publisher Letras Cubanas (the cover was one of my photos). It was censored not for its contents but from the idiocy of Iroel Sanchez, with the permission of Abel Prieto and the traveling salesman Miguel Barnet from the United … Continue reading “Official Proof of Censorship Against My Book “Boring Home” / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo”

Cuban Blogographia / Regina Coyula

Well, yes. A Cuban blogosphere has come out with blog graphs. I have just read the works of the Spaniard Josep Calvet which appear in La Joven Cuba. It is patient work to scrutinize evidently diverse and diverse material on the Network. Calvet commits an often repeated error that seems intentional which is to identify … Continue reading “Cuban Blogographia / Regina Coyula”

One Step Forward, One Step Back / Ernesto Morales Licea

The diplomacy of the absurd. A kind of indecipherable political cha cha cha, with steps lacking any harmony with each other, forming no coherent dance. The thinking of the top leadership in Cuba is an unfathomable mystery to me, every day more difficult to understand. I have come to think: Not even the powers-that-be are … Continue reading “One Step Forward, One Step Back / Ernesto Morales Licea”

WEBDITORIAL / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo

It’s beautiful to sit in front of the TV and contemplate the end of the Revolution. “Cuba’s Reasons,” they call it on Monday nights, this material clearly anonymous. My blog, which appeared for the first time on the small screen, is also called Monday. Post-Revolution Mondays. A slightly obsolete title. The Revolution is no longer … Continue reading “WEBDITORIAL / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo”

Them, The Cyberwarriors / Angel Santiesteban

Source: Guama 1. A friend in the US said he doesn’t agree with some of the [Communist Party] Guidelines for… 2. He’s declaring cyberwar on you!!!!!! Today we woke up to the Government’s onslaught against the Rebel Bloggers of the Island, with a two-page article in Granma titled, “Cuba’s Reasons/Special,” and the most special is … Continue reading “Them, The Cyberwarriors / Angel Santiesteban”

Message from Jorge Ángel Hernández / POLEMICA: The 2007 Intellectual Debate

About the text “A little ashamed of ourselves” by Luis Manuel Pérez Boitel, in response to “The crisis of low culture” of Francis Sánchez. My friend Riverón, Although I consider friendship one of the gifts that should be defended at all costs, I also think that standards about things that happen in life, art and … Continue reading “Message from Jorge Ángel Hernández / POLEMICA: The 2007 Intellectual Debate”

Prayer for Rufo / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo

RUFO R.I.P. Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo We clashed once, in early 2000, in the midst of editing the journal ExtramuroS, he being the great critic Rufo Caballero, and I the same as today, an obscure writer with politically incorrect eccentricities. We published a text from Duanel Diaz that gave gorgeous conceptual tastiness to the caballero … Continue reading “Prayer for Rufo / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo”

AN EXPERIMENT… / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo

Please try to search on my name (Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo) in the (ophidian) official site http://www.cubaliteraria.com. At this point all I am to the rancid bureaucracy of my country Cubita: a malicious code…!!! It’s audacity made law. Illiterates who work for a wage. Erasing memory with an impunity they will pay dearly for, sooner … Continue reading “AN EXPERIMENT… / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo”