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Aging in Cuba

Today, my mother takes care of my grandmother. This time, I didn’t have the support of my...

Lydia Cabrera and the Dark Rebellions

Lydia Cabrera was part of the Africanist movement almost since its origins, and true to the excitement...

Between The Devil and The Deep Blue Sea: 1990-1991

I It starts with the suspension of the Cold War, and Cubans at the center of the conflict. It...

‘Red Cockroaches’: Twenty years after Miguel Coyula’s Classic Film

What Miguel Coyula did for independent Cuban cinema has yet to be fully understood. Perhaps that’s why...

An Amnesty Law for Cuban Political Prisoners, is It Possible?

For the visit last January 10, Ailex Marcano carried coffee, toast, and a soda. Ángel Jesús, her...

Routes of the Political Imagination in Cuba

In totalitarianism, even more than in the different types of authoritarianism, the capacity to imagine is as...

The Beatles and Post-truth

I “Lennon’s rasping voice floated towards us from some faraway echoing place beyond the horizon, or the grave....

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

With his new graphic memoir, Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey, artist, activist, and proud “gusano-americano” Edel Rodríguez...