Declaration

We, the political prisoners of conscience from the cause of the 75 of the Black Spring that find ourselves imprisoned in the Provincial Prison of Canaleta in Ciego de Avila, emphatically oppose the measures of violent repression that have been taken against The Ladies in White in different areas of Cuba, especially those events which [...]

The Law of the Strongest

Skylight by Fernando Urena   The law which is imposed by many of the officials in the Canaleta prison is the law of the strongest, and in this case, the strongest are them. They resolve everything through physical blows, attacks, and abuses of power. To search amongst them for the champion through such actions results [...]

Filthy Repression

Embarrassing to describe, but I do so with pure honesty. Military personnel are involved in filthy repression tactics against the young Yuniel Perdomo Pino, neighbor of the Cruz Verde building of Cotorro, in the city of Havana. The guard, Rider, hit him twice with a stick when he asked for medical assistance for his leg [...]

A Trial By Fire for Sahilí

Representatives of the totalitarian and exclusive communist government which controls the fate of our people appeared at my home in Perico, Matanzas, on Tuesday January 12, to advise my daughter, Sahili Navarro Alvarez, that she would be permanently expelled from her fourth year of law school at the university because, months before, she took a [...]

Panchito- Facing the Wall (Final)

Image: Latitudes of Insanity by Manuel Menassa. Francisco Feijoo (Panchito), who resides in 87th Marti Avenue in Jobabo, Las Tunas, was one of those vivacious young men whose intellectual rate was higher than the norm. His classmates from the University of Havana would bow to him, move to the side to let him pass, and [...]

Facing the Wall (3)

Image: Blue Flame by Magdalena Salamanca. Some time ago, a friend of mine told me, “Cuba is a country where one can only live as crazy or drunk.” I looked at him astonished and something perplexed me. I told him, “But I don’t even drink…”, and he responded, “Do you by any chance think you [...]

Facing the Wall (2)

Image: The Poet and the Gold by Miguel Menassa Still echoing in the ears are those words from a long and dull discourse that took place in the mid 1960’s. “…We will create a system of collective vigilance.” A kind of state security similar to that of the SS Nazis, a system of a collective [...]

Facing the Wall (1)

  Image: Inner Storm by Olga de Lucia I have read Faust several times, each line and each word of it and I cannot grasp it. I am going to take refuge among the tears that El Quixote causes me, maybe because I am just an Alonso Quijano playing another’s role. I press my temples [...]

Condolences

It with great grief and sorrow that we just watched the news report concerning the tragic accident of Air France Airbus 330 on Sunday May 31st, 2009, where 228 lives were lost. We extend our deepest sympathies to the family and friends of the victims of the disaster and we join in the mourning of [...]