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Cuban Artist Luis Manuel Otero Interviewed from Prison
More than two and a half years have passed, half of his sentence, since the jailing of...
Society & Politics
I Have a Friend in Gaza
I didn't know I had a friend in Gaza. In the Facebook profiles of street animal rescuers,...
Articles
Aging in Cuba
Today, my mother takes care of my grandmother. This time, I didn’t have the support of my...
Articles
Between The Devil and The Deep Blue Sea: 1990-1991
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It starts with the suspension of the Cold War, and Cubans at the center of the conflict.
It...
Society & Politics
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...
Articles
Routes of the Political Imagination in Cuba
In totalitarianism, even more than in the different types of authoritarianism, the capacity to imagine is as...
Interviews
The filmmaker Luis Alejandro Yero talks about the censorship of his film in Havana
There is a moment in this interview where I tell Luis Alejandro Yero (1989) that Cuban censorship...
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,...
