Articles by

DARÍO ALEJANDRO ALEMÁN

Darío Alejandro Aleman. Cuban journalist based in Mexico.

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...

Cubans in the War in Ukraine: Human Trafficking and Mercenarism?

Alex Vega Díaz and Andorf Velázquez García, two young men barely in their 20s, left Cuba for...

The Thaw that Never Was (II)

It was not until Nixon’s resignation and the arrival in the White House of Gerald Ford that...

The Thaw that Never Was (I)

Let’s say you are about 20 years old, you are studying Journalism at the University of Havana,...

Another Migrant Story

The driver ordered them to take their things and get into the car. “They are waiting for us...

27N: Voices of a Protest

Scarcity is a constant category in any of the formulas that try to decipher Cuban reality. There...

MSI/27N: Watching from Afar, Feeling Very Close

Nothing is more natural than to emigrate. However, the conscience of the emigrant often unwittingly mocks the...

Diary of a Spectator Embarrassed to Be Just That

November 16th I have left Cuba under unhappy circumstances that I do not want to relate. I will...