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Hell in the Cancun Migration Facility: Cases of Extortion and Violence

Andrea Hernández, a 25-year-old Colombian woman, was vacationing in Tulum. She had come to enjoy the beach...

The (Castroist) Ruralization of Havana (Part II)

1968, Year of Ruralization For Castro’s rural mentality, if the countryside is the focus of revolutionary economic development,...

July 11 in Holguin: Two Years After the Anti-government Protests in Cuba

Sundays tend to be particularly unpleasant because people, who since Friday have cherished the hope that something...

The (Castroist) Ruralization of Havana (Part I)

Havana’s urban ruin is no accident. The more than sixty years of abandonment of an entire city...

The Thaw that Never Was (II)

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

Russian Recolonization of Cuba

The Russian project of reforming the Cuban economy has undergone a real diplomatic offensive in recent months,...

‘Subalternas’: Cuban Afrotransfeminist and Decolonial Magazine (An Interview)

This is a conversation with storyteller, journalist and editor in chief of Subalternas, Mel Herrera. Questions and...

The Thaw that Never Was (I)

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