English Translations of Cubans Writing From the Island
14ymedio, Elías Amor Bravo, Valencia, Spain, October, 1, 2022 — Reaching the limit and wanting to go further, for the sole vice of maintaining power. At any price. This is the selfish and suicidal lesson the communist regime wants to teach Cubans, so that tomorrow, the whole world will remember the tragic final venture (which … Continue reading “Cuba: It Is the End of the Communist Dictatorship”
14ymedio, Natalia López Moya, Havana, 16 August 2021– “There is fuel for the patrol cars, but not for public transport,” a woman shouted indignantly. Like like dozens of other Havanans, she was waiting for a bus at the Ayestarán and 19 de Mayo under the suffocating August sun. The capital woke up with serious problems … Continue reading “Dozens of Police Patrols Roam Havana but the Buses Don’t Appear”
14ymedio, Havana, 12 August 2021 – The authorities of Santiago de Cuba imposed massive vacations in all of the province’s state and private workplaces, or “work interruption for those who do not have accumulated time.” The decision is part of a group of measures that will last 15 days and seeks to “reduce the mobility of people … Continue reading “Santiago de Cuba is Almost Paralyzed in an Attempt to Stop Covid-19 Contagion”
14ymedio, Havana, 2 September 2020 — The restrictive measures taken since Monday by the government of the province of Havana to contain the coronavirus pandemic already have legal shielding. The Official Gazette, in an extraordinary edition this Monday, includes Decree 14, “of infractions against communal hygiene and sanitary measures for the stage of confrontation with covid-19 in the … Continue reading “Cuban Government Shields Measures Taken in Havana with a Legal Decree”
14ymedio, Havana, 22 October 2018 — Correos de Cuba, the Cuban Post Office, has admitted deficiencies in its service to the avalanche of complaints from users in an online forum of the business group. The state agency’s management has responded to the criticism arguing that to solve this situation requires “large investments, which currently neither the Group nor the … Continue reading “Cuban Post Office Admits Service Deficiencies Due to Lack of Investments”
14ymedio, Yosmany Mayeta Labrada, Santiago, 23 July 2015 – The builders hurry to give the last touches to building projects, and the communal brigades obsessively clean the streets. A few days before the celebration of its fifth centennial, the city of Santiago is bustling. The imminent arrival of the delegations to the ceremony for the … Continue reading “Santiago Hides Its Indigents / 14ymedio, Yosmany Mayeta Labrada”
Renato’s family emigrated to the United States on October 3 but that did not stop them from having some weak communal soup, drinking cheap rum and dancing the timba on a block of Reparto Sevillano south of Havana on the night of the 27th, the eve of the anniversary of the Committees for the Defense … Continue reading “An Old Castro Weapon Still in Operation / Ivan Garcia”
HAVANA, Cuba, September, www.cubanet.org – At almost the same moment that Mariela Castro declared that Cuba only penalizes pandering, but not prostitution, police officers in uniform and in plainclothes conducted an operation against prostitutes who frequent Águila Street, between Monte and Estrella, in the municipality of Centro Habana. The place had lately become a stronghold … Continue reading “They Pick up the Prostitutes but Not the Trash on the Streets of Havana / Orlando Freire Santana”
