Sus padres eran revolucionarios, de manera que le pusieron de nombre el seudónimo de la alemana que murió en Bolivia combatiendo junto al comando del Ché: “Tania la Guerrillera”, así conocen los cubanos a Tamara Bunke.
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Return to Ithaca, a film about Cuban friendship and disenchantment, was removed from this year’s Havana’s Latin American Film Festival.
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Gorki Águila founded Porno para Ricardo in Havana back in 1998, and Cuba’s cultural landscape — in both its official and underground incarnations — has never been the same
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Ágata, la terrible abuela de Agar, aquel niño maldito de El Juego de la viola, de cuentos del cubano Guillermo Rosales (1946-1993), decía que los comunistas andaban “todos con el culo remendado” y “con olor a taller de bicicletas”.
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The cancellation of renowned national artist Pedro Pablo Oliva’s exhibition, “Utopia and Dissent,” represents the despotism of a communist elite that has ruled Cuba with impunity for over half a century.
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Literature written in exile contains unexpected bridges between what authors experience in their isolation. Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo examines the curious similarities between two banned books and the exiled writers who “created a fictional sparring of words with the Commander-in-Chief who drove them from their homeland.”
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“At least let me pull those 37 names out of the macabre anonymity to which Castroism has condemned them in Cuba.” Orlando Pardo Lazo recounts a dark time in Cuba, referred to as the Tugboat Massacre of 1994.
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