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Pedro Juan Gutiérrez and ‘Dirty Havana Trilogy’: 25 Years Later

DARÍO ALEJANDRO ALEMÁN - 12/01/2023 0

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...

The Silence Barrier: A Conversation with Roberto Echavarren about ‘Russian Nights: Autocracy and Testimony’ (2023)

PABLO BALER - 11/27/2023 0

In Russian Nights: Autocracy and Testimony (Vernon Press, 2023), Uruguayan poet, narrator, and essayist Roberto Echavarren reconstructs, through a mosaic of heartbreaking testimonies, a...

Down with Fidel, Long Live Edel, and To Hell with Trump!

TED A. HENKEN - 11/22/2023 0

With his new graphic memoir, Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey, artist, activist, and proud “gusano-americano” Edel Rodríguez declares: “I grew up in a dictatorship...

Disneyfication of San Isidro

NÉSTOR DÍAZ DE VILLEGAS - 02/10/2021 0

As far as the Cuban issue is concerned, the anti-Trumpist exile is between a rock and hard place. A shady deal that reverses, overnight,...

The Sound of Silence

COCO FUSCO - 11/21/2020 2

In the last few days, as the latest protest by the San Isidro Movement has morphed from a collective poetry reading to a state...

“Can We Still Be Revolutionaries?” Anna Veltfort interviewed by Ted A. Henken

TED A. HENKEN - 02/26/2021 2

In this exclusive interview with Ted Henken, New York graphic artist, blogger, and one-time habanera Anna Veltfort shares the contents of her “Cuban Cold...

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