English Translations of Cubans Writing From the Island
Full Text of the Statement of the Cuban Liberal Union Cuban Liberal Union Madrid, February 21, 2013 Cuba, for all Cubans in response to the controversy sparked by Yoani Sánchez’s recent statements on the waste of government resources in the media campaign on the Wasp Case [the case of the 5 Cuban spies in the … Continue reading “Cuban Exiles in Spain Support Yoani Sanchez”
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”
Photos like these have been seen a thousand and one times, but these are “mine,” they are “my Ladies in White,” the ones my eyes saw. The coming days are going to be tough with a Cuba given to the coming vote, this electoral farce that happens with the world turning its back. Saturday the … Continue reading “Ladies in White… Ladies of Cuba / Luis Felipe Rojas”
Vivanco highlights the lack of an independent judiciary and the enforcement of a penal code worthy of the Inquisition through condemning only on suspicion. But more than suspicions sustain the regime. My case is a clear example of how justice is handled, charges and evidence are invented, and false witnesses are bought to convict and … Continue reading “Human Rights Watch Comments on the Cuban Dictatorship [VIDEO] #YoTambienEscriboInclinado / Angel Santiesteban”
From TranslatingCuba.com site manager: Add this blog — Pieces of the Island — to your reading list. As always “Pieces of the Island” brings up-to-the minute news directly from Cuba — and in particular from places other than Havana — from a broad range of activists who don’t all run their own blogs. Without this … Continue reading “Violence increases against dissidents in Cuba (Part 1) / Pieces of the Island #Cuba”
More than 40 children with their parents met on the eve of January 6th at the headquarters of the Ladies in White, at 962 Neptune Street, to celebrate the traditional “Day of the Three Kings.” Bertha Soler, leader of the Movement, began the event remembering Laura Pollan, who from 2004 celebrate this day especially dedicated … Continue reading “Three Kings Day with the Ladies in White / Lilianne Ruiz #Cuba”
Although the boy forgot to put a note under the bed for the Three Kings, the father wrote: I don’t want any more governments that rob children of their innocence. It’s a few minutes before 2:00 when I walk into Neptune Street, towards the home of the late Laura Pollan, made God put here in … Continue reading “The Banished Wise Men Return to Cuba / Agustin Lopez #Cuba”
The city of Miami surprised me. Many of its buses pay tribute to someone who is a symbol of defending civil rights in this country. On my daily comings and goings through its neighborhoods, I found that detail. Right behind the bus driver’s seat, there is a small plaque with the details. Miami does it, … Continue reading “The Seat of Rosa Parks / Luis Felipe Rojas #Cuba”
The sacrifice of the precious life of Oswaldo Jose Paya Sardinas and of so many other martyrs that have preceded him in this type of targeted assassination, far from terrorizing me, stimulates me to continue forward in my ministry which cannot exclude the condemnation of this despotic regime. When I said goodbye to my friend Juan … Continue reading “The Effect on My Life of the Death of Oswaldo Paya / Mario Lleonart”
I always had the dream of getting to know that worker whose speech on receiving the Sakharov prize I heard live from Hapsburg, vibrant with excitement thanks to the magic of radio. I never thought of a future post-Castro Cuba with Payá physically absent. Much less did I imagine it on that Sunday morning of … Continue reading “Paya’s Funerals / Mario Barroso #Cuba”
Regrettably, I did not have the honor of being part of the repression that was not lacking this time, either. I long suspected that the time to depart for the cemetery would be the most propitious for the flock of buzzards to throw themselves over the innumerable prisoners. And it was precisely this that saved me this time: the enormous … Continue reading “Repression at Paya’s Funeral / Mario Lleonart”
Havana Cuba – For my months my whole family has been waiting the birth of my little sister, Inés María’s, first son. When they did a sonogram, they had first said that the baby was a boy. A few months later they said that the baby was a girl. This last diagnosis of the baby … Continue reading “He was Born Masculine and Strong / Ignacio Estrada”
Without having been able to go and join the Ladies in White, I didn’t feel like publishing anything today. Until I found out that my experience also needed to be told: Why, if the Cuban opposition is peaceful and I haven’t seen any Ladies expressing themselves in a way not suitable for the ears of children, … Continue reading “The Tokonoma in the Wall / Lilianne Ruiz”
Yesterday I decided to go to Neptune Street between Aramburu and Hospital Streets to see about and receive impressions of the site where from 7:35 in the morning on Friday until today, Tuesday, September 25, the repressive organs have established themselves in front of the headquarters of the Ladies in White. At some point in … Continue reading “The Preponderance of the Small / Lilianne Ruiz”
For years Neptune Street in Central Havana, in the capital of the country, has been turned into a stage for the orchestrated Acts of Repudiation against the “Laura Pollán Toledo Ladies in White Movement.” The present month will not stray far from its dismal history, according to what its own members describe, along with some … Continue reading “September Returns: a Month of Repression Against the Ladies in White / Wendy Iriepa and Ignacio Estrada”
