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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,...

Rebellion in Havana’s Classrooms and Newsrooms: Two Eras of Frustrated Transition in Cuban Journalism, 1985-1990 and 2016-2021

On October 26, 1987, a group of University of Havana journalism students was summoned to appear at...

The Common: Solon and the Cuba to Come

To Jorge Salcedo, with whom I have ruminated these ideas and with whom I dreamed, in times...