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Forgotten: Black and Dissident

The case of the arbitrary arrest of Sonia Garro and her husband Ramon Alejandro is confusing for several reasons. That she belongs to the well-known group the Ladies in White and he to an independent Afro-Cuban organization, highlights lack of tactics or support (or both) by our internal dissent. Recognized international institutions have raised the … Continue reading “Forgotten: Black and Dissident”

Citizen Demand for Another Cuba – 536 Signatures and Counting

Citizen Demand for Another Cuba As Cubans, legitimate children of this land and an essential part of our nation, we feel a deep sorrow at the prolonged crisis that we are experiencing and the demonstrated inability of the current government to make fundamental changes. This obliges us, from civil society, to seek and demand our … Continue reading “Citizen Demand for Another Cuba – 536 Signatures and Counting”

For Another Cuba – Citizen Demand for Another Cuba

Citizen Demand for Another Cuba As Cubans, legitimate children of this land and an essential part of our nation, we feel a deep sorrow at the prolonged crisis that we are experiencing and the demonstrated inability of the current government to make fundamental changes. This obliges us, from civil society, to seek and demand our … Continue reading “For Another Cuba – Citizen Demand for Another Cuba”

Ministry of Culturuti / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo

When a minister of culture has to concern himself with the trivialities of commercial art or its substitutes, that minister obscenely carries a gun under his incivil pants: phallic cannon to the left of his national fly. Such is the case for quite unpresentable Abel Prieto in Cuba, minister of culture whose resignation (according to … Continue reading “Ministry of Culturuti / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo”

Vulgarity as a Resource (II) / Miriam Celaya

The recent case of censure against a reggaeton and all the virulent editorial campaign against it –through the official press- bring once again to the spotlight the topic of the cultural revolutionary politics and the controlling function of institutions. The absence of rights touches everyone, not just from the standpoint of artistic phenomenon (let’s generously … Continue reading “Vulgarity as a Resource (II) / Miriam Celaya”

THERE’S AN EXIT…! / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo

THERE’S AN EXIT…? Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo My girlfriend had a strange dream. She dreamt of people she’d never seen. She dreamt of Rolando Pulido, in New York, a teenager, almost prepubescent, fine pear skin, finishing the Mariel exile, but in the middle of 2011, with long straight hair like porn movie Chinese superstar. And … Continue reading “THERE’S AN EXIT…! / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo”

Voces 4: Unstoppable / Miguel Iturria Savón

As an end of year gift, the fourth edition of the magazine Voces is now circulating on the ‘Net, located at www.vocescubanas.com/voces and presented this past 26th of December in the apartment of Yoani Sánchez and Reinaldo Escobar, founders of the Cuban Blogger Academy, which has published these pages without censorship since August, far from … Continue reading “Voces 4: Unstoppable / Miguel Iturria Savón”

Bad — Very Bad — News / Luis Felipe Rojas

Among the somewhat reasonable excitement over the traveling out of Cuba of some of the most glamorous of the dissidents like Yoani Sanchez, Rosa Maria Paya, and Eliecer Avila, extremely alarming things are happening. Two independent reporters arrested (they released Cedeño but Calixto Roman continues to be locked up). Angel Santiesteban gets of every morning … Continue reading “Bad — Very Bad — News / Luis Felipe Rojas”

THE RED RAGE RELOADED / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo

PHOTOS: Orlando (Pardo) poster: Rolando (Pulido) CAN YOU HEAR THE DRUMS, FERNANDO? Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo This year, 2010, a lot of things will be defined in quasi-cultural Cuba. The fate of certain private art exhibition spaces, for example. The fate of certain digital publications cornered between permits and panics, for example. The fate of … Continue reading “THE RED RAGE RELOADED / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo”