In light of the holiday season, Sampsonia Way’s international columnists share their 2013 reading recommendations. Selected by Israel Centeno, Tarik Günersel, Yaghoub Yadali, Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo, Mesfin Negash, Hamd El-Gazzar, Bina Shah, and Tienchi Martin-Liao.
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Having spent eight months traveling in the US, I’m starting to make Cuban State Security nervous, just as I’m making the island’s dissidents nervous, since the two entities are sometimes so similar that you can barely tell them apart.
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Al sumar 8 meses de visita en USA, la Seguridad del Estado cubana comienza a ponerse nerviosa conmigo, lo mismo que la disidencia insular, tan coincidentes ambas que a veces resultan indistinguibles.
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Earlier this year a popular new entertainment business cropped up in Havana: 3D movies. Cuba columnist Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo looks at the privately-owned “movie theaters” – rooms in private residences – which have recently come under the scrutiny of the Cuban government.
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Earlier this year a popular new entertainment business cropped up in Havana: 3D movies. Cuba columnist Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo looks at the privately-owned “movie theaters” – rooms in private residences – which have recently come under the scrutiny of the Cuban government.
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As the Cuban government places the powerful ranch owner and popular animal trainer, Miguel Ginarte, under house arrest, an unprecedented number of Cuban artists sign a letter of protest. But where’s the outrage for the treatment of democracy and human rights activists on the island?
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On the “Thirty Questions for the Cuban Government,” a statement issued by Cuban religious leaders last month in Washington D.C. that asks that the Cuban government address longstanding grievances and ongoing religious repression of religious leaders and activists.
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