Columnist Orlando Pardo Lazo underscores the fact that a new law passed by the National Assembly will open up the economy in Cuba to foreign investment but will not extend to Cubans living within or outside of the country.
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In this Exile Hangout, Cuban writers including Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo, Lien Carrazana Lau, Danilo Maldonado Machado “El Sexto”, and Elena Victoria Molina speak about an anthology of Cuban short stories published by Sampsonia Way. They nuance Cuban literary generations and how “censorship is creating new spaces” in current conversations.
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Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo discusses the importance of a new book that implicates the Cuban state in the murder of dissidents Harold Cepero and Oswaldo Payá in 2012.
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Cuban columnist Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo discusses Oliver Stone’s amoral “tribute documentary” on the late ‘Supreme Commander’ Hugo Chávez amid the protests and violence impacting Venezuela.
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Cuban columnist Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo discusses the premiere of Oliver Stone’s “tribute documentary” on the late ‘Supreme Commander’ Hugo Chávez amid the protests and violence impacting Venezuela today.
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Generation Zero: An Anthology of New Cuban Fiction editor Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo answers questions at City of Asylum Pittsburgh about the current state of Cuban literature, the complexity of the term “afro-cuban,” accessing the internet in Cuba, and why there’s currently a lack of unity among Cuban literary organizations and authors.
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Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo speaks about how literature is striving to break the limits of expression in Cuba, why Cuba’s new writers refuse to be a homogenized group, and how he selected the 16 writers in the new anthology Generation Zero.
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