English Translations of Cubans Writing From the Island
Photo: Karen Miranda The sergeants collect the empty trays, so well cleaned by the tongues of the detainees they don’t need to be washed. The sound of the last door being shut leaves a silence that makes them feel more trapped, and the air, scarce and hot, suffocates them. No detainee would even dare to … Continue reading “Prison Diary (4) (Hunger) / Ángel Santiesteban”
Photo: Alejandro Azcuy AFTER THE MONTHS IN THE CELL you come to terms with the loneliness. Then things get better. You get used to knowing that a few steps from you there are other miserable beings who weep, pray and beg that their stay in this incredibly quiet place will end some time. Nothing is … Continue reading “Prison Diary (3) (La Cabaña Prison) / Ángel Santiesteban”
Ángel Santiesteban Havana 1966. Graduate of Dirección de Cine, resides in Havana, Cuba. In 1989 he won a mention in the Juan Rulfo contest, held by Radio France International, and the story was published in Le Monde Diplomatique, in Letras Cubanas, and in the Mexican magazine El Cuento. In 1995, he won the National Award … Continue reading “Ángel Santiesteban”
Ángel Santiesteban Havana 1966. Graduate of Dirección de Cine, resides in Havana, Cuba. In 1989 he won a mention in the Juan Rulfo contest, held by Radio France International, and the story was published in Le Monde Diplomatique, in Letras Cubanas, and in the Mexican magazine El Cuento. In 1995, he won the National Award … Continue reading “Ángel Santiesteban – Bio”
Graphic: Sonia Garro Alfonso, recently freed Lady in White. Collage over a piece by Rolando Pulido. The writer and blogger Ángel Santiesteban Prats, from the prison where he is serving an unjust sentence, just published–thanks to the help of a friend on Facebook–a brief post expressing his thoughts about the recent releases of political prisoners. As … Continue reading “Angelito Santiesteban Does Not Believe Himself the Center of the World / Luis Felipe Rojas”
Please join the campaign in solidarity with these two artists whose only “crime” is to want Cuba to be free and to not have to pay the consequences to the Castro dictator when they say what they think. Follow the links and sign. Many thanks. To sign for Gorki, go here. To sign for Angel, … Continue reading “Solidarity Campaign #FreeGorki #FreeSantiesteban / AngelSantiesteban”
14ymedio, LILIANNE RUIZ, 7 December 2014 — Writer and journalist Angel Santiesteban continues to be detained, since August, in a border guard military unit located on Primera Street in Miramar. His jailers have announced to him this week that he may be transferred to a location yet to be identified. The hut where Santiesteban has … Continue reading “Santiesteban Protests Against Conditions Of His Confinement / 14ymedio, Lilianne Ruiz”
ANGEL SANTIESTEBAN-PRATS Cuba / The Americas His blog is called “Los hijos que nadie quiso” (The children no one wanted). The writer and netizen Ángel Santiesteban-Prats has been held for more than a year for openly criticizing the “dictator” Raúl Castro, as he calls him. Convicted on trumped-up charges of “home violation” and “injuries” in … Continue reading “Reporters Without Borders 100 Information Heroes: Angel and Yoani”
The lawyer, Veizant Boloy, and the journalists Roberto de Jesús Guerra and Julio Aliaga have presented before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights denunciations about the permanent violations of human rights of the independent journalists, and explained how the persecution of information professionals operates. They have shown the Commission the video of the detention of … Continue reading “Serious Denunciations Before the IACHR: Human Rights Situation of Journalists in Cuba. The Santiesteban Case”
The worst blind spot is the one you don’t want to see. While the European Union was planning to change its Common Position, the totalitarian Cuban regime was imprisoning the opposition on the eve of receiving the presidents for the CELAC Summit. In these moments of economic crisis, there is no greater urgency for the … Continue reading “The Common Position and Selective Blindness / Angel Santiesteaban”
Detaining of a Woman in White, Havana, 10th of December 2013. (EFE) We are all too aware Cuba’s dictatorship does not possess the slightest modicum of remorse or self-reproach, so we cannot ask such a State to behave honorably. The Cuban dictatorship is not worthy of respect. Time to stop looking in vain for something … Continue reading “Is Cuba Now Celebrated by UN As Custodian of Human Rights Despite Blatant Violations? / Angel Santiestebad”
Angel Santiesteban visiting with friends at Estado de Sats while on a 72-hour pass from prison. Wlifredo Lopez Rodriguez, ?, Lia Villares, Ailer Gonzalez Mena, Antonio Rodiles, Angel Santiesteban, ?, Claudio Fuentes Madan
By Lilianne Ruiz Havana, Cuba, April, http://www.cubanet.org. After having been more than a week in a punishment cell, Angel Santiesteban was seen Tuesday, April 16 by his lawyer Amelia Rodriguez Cala, who was denied a visit on April 11. The prison’s own officials had declared that Santiesteban was in a punishment cell and carrying out … Continue reading “Santiesteban depends on us”
Every morning, on waking up, surrounded by inmates surprised by my “good mornings” to which they respond with commitment, and then I entrust myself to God, I immerse myself in a blank piece of paper, because I feel I am just an instrutment, someone who takes dictation, His creation. I comes so naturally that I … Continue reading “Prison Diary XXXI: My World on a Little Piece of Paper / Angel Sangtiesteban”
The writer Angel Santiesteban must turn himself in this Thursday to serve a five-year jail sentence. By Wilfredo Cancio Isla This morning, Thursday, February 28, 2013, a 46-year-old writer, considered one of the pillars of narrative of his generation, awarded the highest literary prizes of his country, will go to jail. Angel Santiesteban Prats must … Continue reading “My Imprisonment is an Embarrassment for the Cuban Intelligentsia #YoSoySantiesteban / Ángel Santiesteban”
