Buñuel’s Banned Film
Back in the early 1960s, Cubans were given an opportunity (perhaps by mistake) to watch the latest films directed by Luis Buñuel …
Two Very Similar Historical Eras
The book entitled Cuban Press and the Machado Era written by Edel Lima Sarmiento, a pro-regime Cuban journalist, was published in 2014 …
The Woeful Heritage of Fidel Castro
The Cuba created by Fidel Castro at gun point, with the help of a network of informers, dozens of patriotic slogans, marches …
Seeking the Spirit of Fidel
The world goes on after Fidel Castro’s death, his ashes preserved for future generations as if they were relics or mummies of …
The Place Where My Father Wished to Be…
Dictatorships, in particular totalitarian, are very much alike. That of Cuba is not an exception. The State is perceived as an absolute …
A History Explained Better
For almost seventy years, the death of Jesús Menéndez Larrondo, famous leader of Cuban sugar workers and member and representative of the …
Maykel González: “There are not first and second class journalists”
Maykel is a new kind of journalist on the Cuban scene. This is the case, because after studying in the university and …
My Respect and Support for the New Alternative Media
Today one of the most interesting phenomena in Cuban society is the proliferation of alternative, independent media, including those that neither take …
The Crisis of State Journalism
A SYSTEM THAT IS SINKING I n recent months, the role of the official press as a regulatory agency for the Cuban …
Editorial: The Three Types of Cuban Journalism
Despite the fact that journalism in Cuba has changed considerably in recent years, opening up space for the independent press and new …