English Translations of Cubans Writing From the Island
A reporter for an official press agency, commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the literacy campaign in an article, emphasized that it was undertaken to end four and a half centuries of ignorance in the country. It appears that she, despite the campaign, remained ignorant, as evidenced by her making such an absurd and irresponsible claim. … Continue reading “Swindle / Fernando Dámaso”
The Cuban health system has many followers in different countries, those who contemplate it and hold it up as an example, based more on its image to the outside, a strange mixture of humanism and propaganda and political proselytism, where it is not very difficult to determine which weighs more, this inner reality vs. the … Continue reading “The Battered Health System / Fernando Dámaso”
JJ.- Hector, whether some like it or not, your name is relevant when we speak of the internal opposition in Cuba. How do you see Hector Palacios? HP.- Well, first I want to introduce myself because you already know me, but many readers do not. I am a farmer who was born in the Escambray. … Continue reading “Noble as a Farmer, Wise as a Priest / Juan Juan Almeida”
I saw it today. It is in black and white, has little yellow spots on it, and smells like cockroach. I recovered a photo from my adolescence, frozen in time and already in Sepia color. It is a portrait of 11 young men, joyful under the effects of the poor man’s drink, alcohol mixed with … Continue reading “The Chronicles of a Deceived Generation”
