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The Nightmare of Thinking about Rights: An Interview with Cuban filmmaker Ricardo Figueredo

Ricardo Figueredo Oliva (1972) is a Cuban director, producer, and screenwriter, a graduate of the International Film...

The New K Era

The general secretary of the presidency was seen last week in a dancing situation animated by Ulises...

Arendt and the “Other America”

But that is the great romantic tradition of the 19th century—that of the dungeon, the absence, the...

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...

I Have a Friend in Gaza

I didn't know I had a friend in Gaza. In the Facebook profiles of street animal rescuers,...

Aging in Cuba

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

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...

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...