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Open Cuba
http://opencuba.blogspot.com
Opinion about Cuba's issues
- Author: Juan Martin Lorenzo
- Listed in: Politics Liberalism
- Tags: politics society human rights fidel castro cuba havana
Recent Posts
The mob and the citizen
The last chapter in terms of repression in Cuba has been an escalated attack to the blogosphere, and more personally to Yoani Sanchez, who is the most popular blogger within the island. Last Friday, her husband was confronted and swept away from down...
The fault is the culprit
It is not a joke, but what it is really a joke is an article in GRANMA, the dinosaur of all the newspapers in this world (probably, I guess, with the exception of those in North Korea), in which some obscure journalist in that daily garbage said that...
Two Faces
History always strikes twice: the first as a tragedy, the second as a comedy. But sometimes History strikes twice as a tragedy leaving comedy behind. Francisco Franco was in power for almost 40 years dying peacefully in bed. He established a dictat...
Panfilo strikes again
There is another video of Panfilo circulating in internet, this time with more outrageous behaviour in what looks like a bar or a public space with tourists surrounding him. Again, the singular character is completely lost in alcohol, but this time i...
The face of Repression
When the news tackle any angle of the repression in Cuba, we usually hear to talk about the Rapid Response Brigades and how they isolate and assault some dissidents or any sort of civil resistance in any city of our country. Those brigades are the ...
Saint Lazarus
I remember when I was living in Havana and Castro was in the mood to bring those of his endless speeches, how he overwhelmed us with mountains of statistics data about the most insignificant detail in his rhetoric of the moment. No matter what, ev...
