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Routes of the Political Imagination in Cuba

In totalitarianism, even more than in the different types of authoritarianism, the capacity to imagine is as...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

Refeudalization, Modern/Colonial Occidentalism and Havana Gentrification

The triumph of the Cuban Revolution on January 1, 1959, gave way to the implementation of popular...

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,...