Cuba: Where is the Money? / Iván García

Iván García, 18 July 2016 — Two retirees, a strolling detergent vendor and a vacationing doctor, kill time in a park in south Havana, debating the surprising Portuguese victory of Cristiano Ronaldo in the European Cup. They also comment on the Regime’s new austerity measures, which presage another season of “skinny cows” [shortages]. Neither the … Continue reading “Cuba: Where is the Money? / Iván García”

The Lying Cuban Press / Cubanet, Victor Manuel Dominguez

Montonous, grey, controlled, censored, demagogic, jingoistic, for more than half a century as spokesperson for phantom successes Cubanet.org, Victor Manuel Dominguez, Havana, 31 March 2015 (Cuba Sindical) – The “Revolutionary” Cuban press, characterized as demagogic, monotonous, manipulative, with a grey design, poor quality paper, without stylistic and conceptual diversity, born of the mortal remains of … Continue reading “The Lying Cuban Press / Cubanet, Victor Manuel Dominguez”

Seven Hours with Jorge Luis Piloto in Miami / Ivan Garcia

Iván García, 4 February 2015 — For the prolific and noteworthy Cuban composer, Jorge Luis Piloto Alsar, born in the winter of 1955 in Cárdenas in the town of Matanzas, some 145 kilometers north of Havana, not in his wildest dreams could he have imagined that his songs would achieve international fame. Let’s get into … Continue reading “Seven Hours with Jorge Luis Piloto in Miami / Ivan Garcia”

About the Screening of a North Korean Movie in Havana / Ivan Garcia

Autocrats and Commanders like the cinema. Fidel Castro tried to convince the US director Roger Donaldson to act his part in the film 13 Days, about the 1962 missile crisis. According to Castro’s security people who deserted to Florida, on his property of more than 40 houses, known as Zone 0, to the west of … Continue reading “About the Screening of a North Korean Movie in Havana / Ivan Garcia”

What is Real, Possible and Desirable / Miriam Celaya

The recent Congress of the CCP, with all its greyness and its whiff of pre-epitaph – since it is probably “the last” where the so-called historical generation will be in attendance — has clearly demonstrated some issues that, until now, were cause for speculation among the Cuban reality analysts: behind the charade reform of the … Continue reading “What is Real, Possible and Desirable / Miriam Celaya”