English Translations of Cubans Writing From the Island
EFE, via 14ymedio, Havana, 28 July 2021 — Cuba registered 9,323 cases of Covid-19 this Wednesday, the highest number of confirmed cases in a day since the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020, according to the Ministry of Public Health (Minsap). The previous record was from Sunday, when 8,854 SARS-Cov-2 positives were reported in … Continue reading “Cuba Registers Highest Number of Daily Covid Cases: 9,323”
14ymedio, Luz Escobar, Havana, 23 July 2021 — Last night I was thinking over and over again that when morning dawned I would have to go to the doctor’s office to receive the third dose of the Abdala candidate vaccine. It would not be a problem for anyone to walk a hundred meters and receive … Continue reading “Cuban Political Police Claim the Power to Vaccinate”
14ymedio, Carlos Alberto Montaner, Miami, 17 July 2021 Mr. President, Nobody, except psychopaths, likes to be perceived as an inducer of terror. That changed abruptly on Sunday, July 11. Esteban Ventura and Conrado Carratalá, two famous murderers in the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, returned at full speed and mingled with the revolutionaries. The story … Continue reading “Open letter to Cuba’s President Miguel Diaz-Canel”
14ymedio, Havana, 2 July 2021 — The diffuse new measures announced by the authorities last Tuesday, to contain the contagion of Covid-19, begin to take shape. The Minister of Health, Ángel Portal Miranda, warned that each territory would make its own decisions based on its needs and situation, although the working group at the national … Continue reading “Cuban Province of Cienfuegos Closes to Contain Covid: Beaches, Recreational Centers, Transport”
14ymedio, Havana, 27 June 2021 — Cuba’s Ministry of Public Health reported 2,698 new Covid-19 infections this Sunday, a figure that is the highest daily number of cases detected, exceeding the previous high of last Friday, of 2,464. Since the pandemic began in March of last year, Cuba has detected 182,354 positive cases, according to … Continue reading “With Almost 2,700 New Covid-19 Cases in One Day, Cuba Breaks its Infection Record Again”
14ymedio, Havana, 14 June 2021 — Authorities in Santiago de Cuba have lifted restrictions on motorcycles carrying passengers, part of a series of measures originally intended to contain an outbreak of Covid-19, which the city has been experiencing for months. In reponse to complaints from the public, officials released a statement on Saturday announcing that commercially … Continue reading “Motorcyclists Allowed to Transport Passengers Again in Santiago de Cuba”
Elias Amor Bravo, Economist, 22 April 2021 — Bad. Very bad. The first international speech from Miguel Díaz-Canel, from his new position of First Secretary of the Communist Party, as well as president of Cuba, at the forum of the Ibero-American Summit of Heads of State and Government, on April 21, 2021, held in Andorra. … Continue reading “Diaz-Canel at the Ibero-American Summit: The Failure of a Speech”
14ymedio, Havana, 1 March 2021 — The Cuban government’s musical response to the video clip Patria y Vida (Homeland and Life) has not been long in coming. Two weeks after the release of the song, which harshly criticizes the regime in Havana, the island’s official media have broadcast this Monday Patria o Muerte por la Vida (Homeland or Death for … Continue reading “‘An Act of Repudiation With Music’ is the Official Response to ‘Patria y Vida’”
