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There is no spoon. Notes on “Contempt” in Cuba

—Do not try to bend the spoon, that’s impossible. Instead, just try to realize the truth —What truth? —There...

Cuba: Fictionalize a possible country

1. Fiction as an irruption of the present time Nothing happens unless first we dreamed. Carl Sandburg This text is...

Criticize and Punish: The Academia, the Democracy Funds and the Non-State Media

When I left Cuba with my three-year-old daughter on January 6, 2006, the Cuban government took away...

A Thousand Ways to Die in an Accident

There is a moment in the political struggle where there is no place for chance. Totalitarian states build...

The Moral State and the Need for a Political Form

What happened after N27 clearly shows the progress and political maturity of a new generation of Cuban...