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Cuban artist Samuel Riera talks about Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara: “he is an artist in every sense of the word, an eternal nonconformist.”
More than a decade ago, Samuel Riera and Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara (LMOA) met. LMOA started attending...
Society & Politics
Cubans in the War in Ukraine: Human Trafficking and Mercenarism?
Alex Vega Díaz and Andorf Velázquez García, two young men barely in their 20s, left Cuba for...
Articles
Refeudalization, Modern/Colonial Occidentalism and Havana Gentrification
The triumph of the Cuban Revolution on January 1, 1959, gave way to the implementation of popular...
Chronicle
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...
Architecture
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,...
Chronicle
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...
Architecture
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...
Chronicle
The Thaw that Never Was (II)
It was not until Nixon’s resignation and the arrival in the White House of Gerald Ford that...
