Dossier Especial
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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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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A Seller of Wonders in Santa Clara, Cuba
Stores selling religious items are new-found establishments to pop up in the country in recent times, yet they experience envious business health. In Santa Clara, around 10 of these businesses have sprung up over the past two years.
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