English Translations of Cubans Writing From the Island
By Ignacio Estrada Cepero, Independent Journalist With my note I am not trying to excuse my blogger friend for any word pronounced by her. I am not obliged to excuse her because it has been she herself through her own Twitter account who begged pardon for whatever misunderstanding her words caused. Clarifying with regards to … Continue reading “My Words Are Not An Excuse for Yoani Sanchez / Ignacio Estrada”
Over the last 24 hours groups of Brazilians orchestrated and directed from Cuba and its diplomatic site accredited in Brazil, have led acts of repudiation against the visit of the Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez, creator of the blog Generation Y. The Brazilian Socialist Youth repeat every humiliation that the Cuban government itself, its official media … Continue reading “Urgent Solidarity with Yoani Sanchez / Wendy Iriepa and Ignacio Estrada”
Five years after the Cuban government signed the UN covenants, what is the situation of civil and political rights and of economic social and cultural rights in Cuba? How is the campaign For Another Cuba growing, and what has been the government response? What are the realistic expectations for change in the short and medium … Continue reading “Panel: The Covenants, Five Years Later”
Last week, according to the official Cuban press, between the First Summit of CELAC in Chile and the UNESCO-sponsored Third International Conference for World Equilibrium, the elections and homages to Jose Marti, it seemed that we were on the international hit parade. Nevertheless, if we make a dissection of each event, we show that it … Continue reading “Poor Profits / Fernando Damaso”
The imminent election and the omnipresent allusive propaganda, makes me dwell on what might the way in which democracy is manifested, not only in speeches television spots, but what the citizenship itself feels, as an entity that looks out for its interests and listens to their concerns and demands. If arrogance and testosterone were not … Continue reading “Democratic Democracy / Regina Coyula”
“Leonardo Padura, as in the past, has been indifferent to the injustices the Communist authorities are committing towards me.” The author Ángel Santiesteban told Marti Noticias that faced with his prison sentence without evidence at trial, his ex-colleagues in the Cuban Writers and Artists Union (UNEAC) have known to maintain a complicit silence so that, … Continue reading “UNEAC Writers Remain Silent to Preserve Their Little Privileges #YoTambienEscriboInclinado / Angel Santiesteban”
This week the first Cubans who applied when the Cuban government’s “new migratory policy” went into effect should be getting their passports. We will begin to understand the true possibilities on learning which passports are issued and which denied. And we will see the new selection criteria. Although one step has been eliminated, the “white … Continue reading “Of Passports, Emigration, Permits and Chimeras / Roberto Madrigal”
A tribute to Harold Cepero Escalante, the man, the friend, the liberation activist… Tribute to Harold Cepero, a young man who lost his life while working to build the Cuban civil society he dreamed of, with rights, progress and unity. Thanks to people like him love abounds on this earth. Help us investigate the causes … Continue reading “A Tribute to Harold of the Christian Liberation Movement / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo”
The majority of human beings share with the animal kingdom a love of liberty and respect for our neighbors. But not everyone, evidently. Because if it were so, dictators wouldn’t exist, nor would other inferior spirits that – reincarnated into despicable henchmen and bullies – execute, literally, human dignity on a daily basis. But dignity … Continue reading “Dignity cannot be killed nor can it be caged / Angel Santiesteban #Cuba”
The screen illuminates a face while fingers race over the keyboard. Outside, life goes on, the cars honk and a dog hurries past the door. It would appear that once across the threshold of the house the technological life would give way to reality, but at the beginning of this third millennium it is already … Continue reading “From the Virtual World to the Real World / Yoani Sanchez #Cuba”
Source: Yoani’s Twitter 21 January 2013
The phrase, attributed in Cuba both to Stevenson and Savon, the complete super greats of Cuban boxing, is my compass, my alpha-omega, my real reality since I deal with hardware, software, platforms, all to become technologically literate, struggling to reach the sixth grade. Whenever I face something new — in this area, and that’s every … Continue reading “The Technique is the Technique / Regina Coyula #Cuba”
Photo from Yoani’s Twitter Translator’s note: You can support them by enjoying the photos they post on these Twitter accounts: @eliecer_cuba @lamalaletra @frankabelcuba @willysincensura @criolloliberal @fuerzaverdadera 18 January 2013
In February 2008, the United States government granted me a special humanitarian visa for my consequent admission into Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami in order to treat my severe cardiovascular infection which I still have. Because I put as a condition real guarantees of returning as soon as I finished the examinations, and not accepting … Continue reading “About the Migratory “Reforms” / Jorge Luis Garcia Perez Antunez #Cuba”
This Wednesday, January 9, a new project comes to light from one of the organizations that dare to claim rights and freedoms under the most strict censorship of the state, repression and prison. Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet convicted in case 63 of 1999, in the case 662 of 1999 and finally in case 15, 2003, … Continue reading “Foreign Journalist Are Afraid to be Seen Covering Dr. Biscet’s Emilia Project / Agustin Valentin Lopez Canino #Cuba”
