Dossier Especial
Filming with a Drone in Cuba without Losing it
Today, videos of social events, commercials, music videos, feature movies or short films filmed in Cuba all have many aerial shots (filmed with or without authorization) because drones are now a part of Cuban filmmaking. There’s no going back now…
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Cuba Is More than the Revolution’s Intransigence
In the face of the discriminatory demarcation of what is the revolutionary terrain, I would like to recall Marti’s words, when he wrote a phrase that defines the Republic, at least in our current Constitution still: “for everyone and for everyone’s wellbeing.” This is how we need to build the Homeland.
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Cuba moves backwards: New regulations likely to impede private sector growth
In a leap backwards, the Cuban government has published a massive compendium of tough new regulations governing the island’s struggling private enterprises.
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Cuba’s Self-Employed and their “Struggle”
The struggle for Cuba’s private sector is still very long. There are still so many stigmas and walls that need to be knocked down. Nearly 15 days before it’s been a year since self-employment licenses were frozen, it was finally announced that it will be 5 more months until regulations that “reorganize” (and limit) this sector will come into effect.
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Can Religious Fundamentalism Block Same Sex Marriage in Cuba?
The churches’ opposition to recognizing the LGBTIQ+ community’s rights is as old as these religious institutions themselves.
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The Casanas Family: Communism in Practice?
Nicolas Casanas brought his children and several descendants together to take charge of the farm work. He applied a simple division of duties and assigned each one specific responsibilities. None of them earn money.
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Is Cuban Scientist Ariel Ruiz the Victim of a Legal Injustice?
Beyond how legal or legitimate the sentence has been, what has happened to Ariel should be of every Cuban’s interest.
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Being a Responsible Father in Cuba with Paternity Rights
Having a personal choice is a necessary step, but it isn’t enough. Another kind of paternity demands another kind of law. Laws need to be designed so that fathers can enjoy this new paternity fully
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Skateboarding in Cuba: a Marginalized Sport
our years ago, a group of young people created a space, using their own resources and initiative, where they could express themselves freely: their own skatepark.
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My doubts about Cuba’s New Constitution
On June 2nd 2018, a special session of the National Assembly of People’s Power was held, with 35 members absent, which is a lot for their first meeting. On that day, important agendas for Cuba’s present and future were passed without any kind of discussion.
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Pizzacracker: Cienfuegos’ New Bureaucratic Solution
Pizza sellers in Cuba’s southern city of Cienfuegos have decided to use salted crackers to replace disposable pieces of paper or cardboard enabling customers to carry this food item in their hand when it comes straight out of the oven.
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Silence and Mourning in Holguin, Cuba
A Cuban province has lost over 60 inhabitants all at once. Since Friday, images of the Boeing 737-200 accident have been replaying, over and over again, on screens in Holguin’s pharmacies, barber shops, cafes, restaurants and homes.
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File #00 of an Alternative Havana Biennial
Havana’s Alternative #00 Biennial has been taking place since Saturday May 5th in various “independent” artists’ homes/studios/workshops.
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A Concept Hijacked in Cuba
Cuban government insists on calling itself “revolutionary”, but they haven’t been able to fill the shoes of this term for a while now (decades, I would say), because there isn’t a permanent state of revolution for any abstract or tangible body here in this country.
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Please Sign the Anonymous Letter against Me
Although a long tradition of using and exploiting them (encouraged by a government policy which allowed and even promoted them) has come to make us Cubans a kind of experts in the matter.
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Can Women be Tattoo Artists in Cuba?
Ana and Johana also have some facial piercings, green and blue hair, and yes: both women are very proud of their tattoos.
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Two Cuban Actors Together in Life and Censorship
Eduardo Martinez and Lola Amores play the leading roles in Cuba’s latest award-winning fiction feature movie. However, in spite of Santa y Andres’ (2016) international success (the first movie they shared scenes in), it hasn’t been shown at any Cuban movie theater or on national TV.
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Cuba’s New Program for Art Teachers
In the face of a teacher shortage, a new Art Teacher Training Program began last November with a total of 263 students at 8 of the country’s 37 art schools.
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Fausto, a Cuban Musician and Writer
Fausto’s vocation is literature; but today, Fausto prefers to be a musician.
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The New Inquisition Taking Place in Cuba
Just like the Spanish Inquisition in the 14th century, the Party has an efficient political policy in the UPEC which fulfills its role as a repressor in the purges against journalists.
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Complicit Silence in Today’s Cuba
In the meantime, none of the other bothered people who were also interested in the store opening spoke a single word during that coarse exchange of ours. This is frecuently today in Cuba.
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Cuba: Recycled Sweet Fifteen Dresses
Grey reinforces the stitches on the new dress that will adapt to many young girls’ waistlines. She inspects the work while she touches up the details on the embroidered band that once embellished the finest lingerie. She admires the harmony of her perfect piece made out of bits and pieces.
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Cuban Rock Climbers
Cuban mountain climbers don’t want to be limited, they rather want to be recognized as a Federation. Formalizing the practice with well-defined rules would prevent clashes with Park authorities.
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Can Cubans Get to Know Their Own Country?
This man from Cienfuegos is 28 years old and he set out on traveling all over Cuba on his own, with or without money, on a bus or hitching rides, no matter what. He thinks of it as a personal mission and he travels alone, almost without any financial means.
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Yusuf, on Being a Muslim in Cuba
Yusuf is a grown man. He works as part of a demolition team across Havana. He is 28 years old and he lives with his wife and five-month old son. Too is muslim.
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My Son and Cuban History
If I want one thing to be instilled in my young boy, it’s the contrasts that exist within every natural and human thing.
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Yomer Motejo: the Cuban X-ray Artist
He has trodden his way through the ethical dilemma of being a health professional using medical materials for other purposes, artistic in this case.
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Cuba to Hold 2018 Elections but Nothing’s Changing
After the list of candidates for the National Assembly of People’s Power was published, which was approved on January 21st, it was confirmed: nothing will change, the same people will continue in power.
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A Family of Cuban Rockers
Being a rocker sets you apart in a city where people listen mainly to reggaeton, salsa and timba. Rock is a very serious matter for both Allien and Maria.
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Catholics Run an Outpatient Psychiatric Hospital in Santa Clara
The house at No. 412 Maceo Street in Santa Clara, was transformed its ruins into a kind of outpatient hospital for mental patients
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Despite Obstacles and Prejudice, Pool Is on the Rise in Cuba
The exact number of pool tables in Cuba can’t be calculated, there aren’t any figures. Some have disguised them with self-employment licenses for another activity, others run secretly and only the State can set up a pool table in peace.
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The New Rule of Three in Cuban Cooperatives
The intention of this policy might be praiseworthy, it’s driven by fair interests, but the solution only aggravates the situation further rather than solving the problem.
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The Seven Traumas of Cubans Traveling Abroad
Once a Cuban sets foot in an international airport (and even before they arrive there) a series of psychological mechanisms are triggered in their brain which will accompany them the whole time they are outside the country.
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About “Artivism” in Cuba
We aren’t in the Five Grey Years or Special Period, but political powers continue to influence (if not determine) Cuban art.
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Why We Went to Revolution Square?
Government figures from the parade this year claim that over a thousand foreigners walked through...
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A Plastics Recycling Industry in Santa Clara, Cuba
Yenobys Sanchez Perez (who is only 26 years old) leads a private imports replacement project which saves Cuba tens of thousands of dollars, every year.
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