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They often made and received calls using their cell phones Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo Finally the miracle had happened. The prose of war of decades and decades of totalitarianism media emerges now from the mouth of the Catholic Church, formerly irreconcilable enemy of Godless societies. The press release from Orlando Marquez, director of the Archdiocese … Continue reading “La Caridad Church Assaulted Between Priests and Police / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo”

Translator’s note: This interview is from the digital magazine Cubaencuentro, from November 14, 2011. It was conducted by Luis Manuel García Méndez. We interviewed Alexis Romay, a graduate of The City University of New York’s master’s program in Spanish Language and Literature, author of the novel Salidas de emergencia (Emergency Exits) and the poetry collection … Continue reading “Cuba Archive Truth and Memory Project / Alexis Romay”

Do not be alarmed, my brother, it is not I who is asking for your help, but the Minister of Health. The powerful are accustomed to see that when someone is punished very hard, they are generally reduced to obedience, and so they don’t understand by what strange way this sometimes does not succeed. Just … Continue reading “S.O.S. / Jeovany J. Vega”

I, Hector Riscar Mustelier, declare in writing what really happened on Wednesday 16 November 2011. We left the National Cabaret, where we were working the Heritage Group, a reggae band, of which I am director. We were Adrian (props), Daniel (drummer), Zenén (sound engineer) and I, crossing the corner of Prado and San Jose, where … Continue reading “Public Declaration in Self-Defense of Rastafarian Artist Hector Riscar (El Nano) / El Sexto – Danilo Maldonado Machado”

On the 50th anniversary of the University Reform enacted in January 1962, the newspaper Granma published on Monday, January 9, 2012, an article entitled University and Society by Armando Hart Dávalos, in which he proposes that “after the triumph of the Revolution university reform was essential to realizing the final link between the university and … Continue reading “University Reform Without Autonomy / Dimas Castellano”

By: Atty. Veizant Boloy My grandmother did not think twice when in her early years she could have gone to Spain, home of her ancestors. She chose to believe, like many others, in the promises of the Government to provide decent housing for all. Today after more than five decades, she can only look up … Continue reading “Right to Adequate Housing / Cuban Legal Association”

For the ‘Palestinians’, as people from Havana call those born in the eastern provinces, to live in Havana is almost a mission impossible. By Decree 217, passed in 1997, the law sanctions and fines people born outside the capital who wish to settle there without official permission. It’s like a border without a border. There … Continue reading “Palestinians in Havana / Iván García”

To the memory of Wilman Villar Mendoza A couple of years ago, my friend Eugenio Leal decided ask for the report of his criminal record, necessary paperwork when applying for certain jobs. With confidence, he applied for the form where it would say he had never been convicted of any crime but found, in its … Continue reading “Common Criminals / Yoani Sánchez”

The pronouncement of the Cuban Workers Center (CTC), regarding the measures taken by the Government to deflate workforces and to bring about greater self-employment, published in the Journal of Communist Party on September 13, 2010, is a good reason to discuss the dependence of the Cuban labor union movement with respect to the State. According … Continue reading “Independent Unions Versus Updating the Model / Dimas Castellano”

At the close of the Eighth Ordinary Session of the National Assembly of Popular Power, on December 23, 2011, General Raul Castro announced that “in a humanitarian and sovereign gesture,” the State Council of the Republic of Cuba had agreed to pardon more than 2,900 Cuban and foreign prisoners. Despite the positive that will come … Continue reading “Of Pardon and Amnesty / Dimas Castellano”