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Taking advantage of the arrival of General Raul Castro in Chile, where he traveled to participate in the recently concluded CELAC summit, members of the Chilean Independent Democratic Union party (UDI) protested outside the embassy in Santiago de Cuba and attempted to deliver a letter there. Of course, they were greeted by the disrespectful rudeness … Continue reading “The Man the Chileans Are Looking For Would be in Nuevo Vedado / Juan Juan Almeida”

In spite of the decay and the grime, it is still a vain city. A varied architecture, rows of archways and tall columns topped with plaster figures. Neighborhoods with their own flavor.Atarés, El Pilar, Carraguao, La Víbora, Lawton, Sevillano, Mantilla, Párraga, Buena Vista, Pogolotti, San Leopoldo, Colón, Cayo Hueso, El Vedado o Miramar. Each with … Continue reading “Havana, A Unique Metropolis / Ivan Garcia #Cuba”

I bare myself in discourses in the blog delahabanalcielo.blogspot.com/2012/05/en-esenciaorlando-l… In essence… Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo From my childhood I remember… Red. It was my favorite color. Now I don’t prefer any. Now nothing is as intense as it was at the beginning of the world. The red fabric in a handmade sweatshirt, worn over Mayte’s … Continue reading “From Havana to Heaven to Nothing / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo”

Eugenio was released in the afternoon, after the disastrous Pope took his plane back to Rome. But Augustin was still in a cell, because Eugenio saw him in passing, and also with him a member of “Los Aldeanos.” They have arrested many people. When I returned to my house I met in the elevator one … Continue reading “Adios Pope / Lilianne Ruíz”

Site manager’s note: The information about the extensive repression leading up to the Pope’s visit is coming to us through Twitter, emails, Hablalo sin miedo (Speak without fear) and other routes, other than blog posts. Raul Garcia Jr., over at Pieces of the Island, has prepared an excellent summary of the most recent reports. Keep … Continue reading “(PARTIAL SUMMARY) Wave of arrests and threats sweep across Cuba just hours before the visit of Pope Benedict. #PopeCuba”

Cuba’s Most Famous Dissident Blogger Writes About Life Inside the Sepia Postcard The cast bronze sculpture rests one of its arms on the rail of the bar. It seems like he’s going to ask for another daiquiri, but in reality his metal eyes are watching everyone who comes and goes from El Floridita. Some turn … Continue reading “Everyone’s Got a Havana / Yoani Sánchez”

They say that Benny Moré, before becoming “the barbarian of rhythm of Cuban music,” passed the hat in the bars of the Avenida del Puerto in Havana, where he sang with his guitar for a plate of food and three rums. In one of those bars he discovered the famous Miguel Matamoros, who needed another … Continue reading “Today As It Was Yesterday / Miguel Iturria Savón”

He died, in the end, without a name, the poor little high-contrast black and white kitten. He died of hunger and cold despite our sheltering him in a warm cloth with all the warm milk we could drop into his strawberry mouth. Separated from his mother by the mean hand of dim-witted resident of Buenavista … Continue reading “Meow Meow the Dead / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo”

HOWLABANA (Allen Ginsberg howls back in La Habana) Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo [Performed in La Madriguera (Finca de Los Molinos), at 9 PM in Friday 18 September 2009, as a part of the poetry reading of Mundo Beatnik/Hippie.] I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through … Continue reading “UNLIMITED READINGS / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo”