Interviews
Pedro Juan Gutiérrez and ‘Dirty Havana Trilogy’: 25 Years Later
Pedro Juan Gutiérrez, at 73, is no longer the sex-addicted alcoholic with sudden fits of rage who in the difficult times of the Special Period was an exemplary specimen of...
Interviews
The Silence Barrier: A Conversation with Roberto Echavarren about ‘Russian Nights: Autocracy and Testimony’ (2023)
In Russian Nights: Autocracy and Testimony (Vernon Press, 2023), Uruguayan poet, narrator, and essayist Roberto Echavarren reconstructs, through a mosaic of heartbreaking...
Interviews
Down with Fidel, Long Live Edel, and To Hell...
With his new graphic memoir, Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey, artist, activist, and proud “gusano-americano” Edel Rodríguez...
Articles
The Cuban Poster Man in New York
The blessing promised at the triumph of Fidel Castro’s Revolution would arrive with the usual delay to...
Interviews
Cuban artist Samuel Riera talks about Luis Manuel Otero...
More than a decade ago, Samuel Riera and Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara (LMOA) met. LMOA started attending...
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The Sound of Silence
In the last few days, as the latest protest by the San Isidro Movement has morphed from...
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“Can We Still Be Revolutionaries?” Anna Veltfort interviewed by Ted A. Henken
In this exclusive interview with Ted Henken, New York graphic artist, blogger, and one-time habanera Anna Veltfort...
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Disneyfication of San Isidro
As far as the Cuban issue is concerned, the anti-Trumpist exile is between a rock and hard place. A...
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Cubans in the War in Ukraine: Human Trafficking and...
Alex Vega Díaz and Andorf Velázquez García, two young men barely in their 20s, left Cuba for...
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Refeudalization, Modern/Colonial Occidentalism and Havana Gentrification
The triumph of the Cuban Revolution on January 1, 1959, gave way to the implementation of popular...