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The most recent installment of this type of half-truth journalism – all the more harmful because it selects a fragment of reality but show only one of its faces – is a column authored by Mauricio Vicent, published in the Spanish newspaper El País, dated May 31 st, whose sole title (“Cuba and the United States Return to Times of Confrontation”) constitutes an inexplicable slip by suchTRANSLATING CUBA
When Etecsa offered the ability to connect from mobile phones, we were already “Internet users without internet.” (14ymedio) 14ymedio, Yoani Sánchez, Havana, 5 June 2021 – An uninvited presence hovered over the spacious room where the eighth Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) was held this April. The Internet was an unwanted and feared guest at the three-day event that tookYOANI SANCHEZ
When Etecsa offered the ability to connect from mobile phones, we were already “Internet users without internet.” (14ymedio) 14ymedio, Yoani Sánchez, Havana, 5 June 2021 – An uninvited presence hovered over the spacious room where the eighth Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) was held this April. The Internet was an unwanted and feared guest at the three-day event that took VENEZUELAN OIL EXPORTS TO CUBA RISE DESPITE A 19% DROP IN Venezuelan Oil Exports to Cuba Rise Despite a 19% Drop in Production. Oil production levels are recovering after the falls of the last year. (EFE) 14ymedio, Havana, 7 May 2021 — Oil production in Venezuela fell 19% in April compared to the same month of the previous year, which did not prevent exports from remaining stable at around 700,000 COOKING OIL DONATED BY THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM BEING SOLD Cooking Oil Donated by the World Food Program Being Sold in Cuba. Photos of the bottles posted on Facebook drew strong criticism. (Collage) 14ymedio, Havana, May 1, 2021 — Cuba’s Ministry of Domestic Commerce responded on Thursday to the complaints about the sale of vegetable oil donated by the United Nations World Food Program(WFP).
JINETERAS IN CUBAN PESOS / REINALDO EMILIO He approaches, asking, ’Looking for a girl. They’re good, nice and cheap.’. Five CUC (in domestic currency, one CUC=25 Cuban pesos) for the jinetera , one CUC for the intermediary, and another CUC for renting a room for an hour in some solar . For the most part small, dark, warm, not veryclean.
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I have vague memories of the articles about Glasnost in those incredible Sputnik magazines, before it was banned by the government in August 1989. With this act of censorship against those they considered the “murderers” of socialism, began, for me, the last chapter in the saga of the Cuban government, which began with a wandering journey to nowhere, very visible in the sector of the LA NIÑA DE PLACETAS, AN ESCAMBRAY LEGEND, DIES IN MIAMI In silence and surrounded by damp and foul-smelling walls, La Niña endured pain for her partner and for her compatriots executed at La Cabaña. Miami, April 9, 2018: During about the last ten years, there has been no evidence of either the existence or the survival of Zoila Aguila Almeida, La Niña de Placetas, also known as La Niña del AVERAGE MONTHLY SALARY IN CUBA IS $29.60 US The average monthly salary in Cuba, is 740 Cuban pesos, equivalent to just under $30 dollars US. EFE, via 14ymedio, Havana, 30 June 2017 – The average monthly salary in Cuba in 260 was 740 Cuban pesos (CUP), the equivalent of $29.60 in US dollars, although the figure is higher in sectors such as the sugar industry – where the best paid earn 1,246 CUP ($48.80 US), and falls in public WHERE TO HAVE SEX IN HAVANA? / CAMILO ERNESTO OLIVERA Havana, Cuba. It happened in the Motel on 11th and 24th streets, near the iron bridge connecting Vedado and Miramar. In a room rented for two hours, the unpleasant whisper was heard: “Mami, you have a wonderful stench!”. It was the 1980’s, Cuba was still receiving 5 billion in subsidy from the Soviet Union, the shortages of the SpecialTRANSLATING CUBA
The most recent installment of this type of half-truth journalism – all the more harmful because it selects a fragment of reality but show only one of its faces – is a column authored by Mauricio Vicent, published in the Spanish newspaper El País, dated May 31 st, whose sole title (“Cuba and the United States Return to Times of Confrontation”) constitutes an inexplicable slip by suchTRANSLATING CUBA
When Etecsa offered the ability to connect from mobile phones, we were already “Internet users without internet.” (14ymedio) 14ymedio, Yoani Sánchez, Havana, 5 June 2021 – An uninvited presence hovered over the spacious room where the eighth Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) was held this April. The Internet was an unwanted and feared guest at the three-day event that tookYOANI SANCHEZ
When Etecsa offered the ability to connect from mobile phones, we were already “Internet users without internet.” (14ymedio) 14ymedio, Yoani Sánchez, Havana, 5 June 2021 – An uninvited presence hovered over the spacious room where the eighth Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) was held this April. The Internet was an unwanted and feared guest at the three-day event that took VENEZUELAN OIL EXPORTS TO CUBA RISE DESPITE A 19% DROP IN Venezuelan Oil Exports to Cuba Rise Despite a 19% Drop in Production. Oil production levels are recovering after the falls of the last year. (EFE) 14ymedio, Havana, 7 May 2021 — Oil production in Venezuela fell 19% in April compared to the same month of the previous year, which did not prevent exports from remaining stable at around 700,000 COOKING OIL DONATED BY THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM BEING SOLD Cooking Oil Donated by the World Food Program Being Sold in Cuba. Photos of the bottles posted on Facebook drew strong criticism. (Collage) 14ymedio, Havana, May 1, 2021 — Cuba’s Ministry of Domestic Commerce responded on Thursday to the complaints about the sale of vegetable oil donated by the United Nations World Food Program(WFP).
JINETERAS IN CUBAN PESOS / REINALDO EMILIO He approaches, asking, ’Looking for a girl. They’re good, nice and cheap.’. Five CUC (in domestic currency, one CUC=25 Cuban pesos) for the jinetera , one CUC for the intermediary, and another CUC for renting a room for an hour in some solar . For the most part small, dark, warm, not veryclean.
TRANSLATING CUBA
I have vague memories of the articles about Glasnost in those incredible Sputnik magazines, before it was banned by the government in August 1989. With this act of censorship against those they considered the “murderers” of socialism, began, for me, the last chapter in the saga of the Cuban government, which began with a wandering journey to nowhere, very visible in the sector of the LA NIÑA DE PLACETAS, AN ESCAMBRAY LEGEND, DIES IN MIAMI In silence and surrounded by damp and foul-smelling walls, La Niña endured pain for her partner and for her compatriots executed at La Cabaña. Miami, April 9, 2018: During about the last ten years, there has been no evidence of either the existence or the survival of Zoila Aguila Almeida, La Niña de Placetas, also known as La Niña del AVERAGE MONTHLY SALARY IN CUBA IS $29.60 US The average monthly salary in Cuba, is 740 Cuban pesos, equivalent to just under $30 dollars US. EFE, via 14ymedio, Havana, 30 June 2017 – The average monthly salary in Cuba in 260 was 740 Cuban pesos (CUP), the equivalent of $29.60 in US dollars, although the figure is higher in sectors such as the sugar industry – where the best paid earn 1,246 CUP ($48.80 US), and falls in public WHERE TO HAVE SEX IN HAVANA? / CAMILO ERNESTO OLIVERA Havana, Cuba. It happened in the Motel on 11th and 24th streets, near the iron bridge connecting Vedado and Miramar. In a room rented for two hours, the unpleasant whisper was heard: “Mami, you have a wonderful stench!”. It was the 1980’s, Cuba was still receiving 5 billion in subsidy from the Soviet Union, the shortages of the SpecialTRANSLATING CUBA
When Etecsa offered the ability to connect from mobile phones, we were already “Internet users without internet.” (14ymedio) 14ymedio, Yoani Sánchez, Havana, 5 June 2021 – An uninvited presence hovered over the spacious room where the eighth Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) was held this April. The Internet was an unwanted and feared guest at the three-day event that took CUBA’S MEDICAL BRIGADE IN KUWAIT PERFORMS WITH ITS EYES ON Just a year ago, around 300 Cuban doctors arrived in Kuwait to reinforce the fight against Covid-19. (Granma) 14ymedio, Madrid, 9 June 2021 — Every medical brigade that returns to Cuba is an opportunity for promotion with a view to the Nobel Peace Prize. ELECTRIC TRICYCLES SELL LIKE CRAZY FOR DOLLARS IN CUBA Electric Tricycles Sell Like Crazy for Dollars in Cuba. 14ymedio, Juan Diego Rodríguez, Havana, 23 March 2021 — Those who visited the store that sells in hard currency (MLC) on Infanta Street, in Centro Habana, on Monday, could not believe it: for sale were the first electric vehicles for private sale in more than half a century. “THE POLICE HAVE KIDNAPPED ME IN MY HOME FOR 60 DAYS A policeman and a State Security agent guard the surroundings of Iliana Hernández’s house, in Cojímar, Havana. (Capture) 14ymedio, Luz Escobar, Miami, 7 June 2021 — CiberCuba activist and reporter Iliana Hernández has been besieged for two months at her home by police and State Security agents. Not only do they prevent her from going out, but they also do not allow any of her friends toTRANSLATING CUBA
Immigration control at the José Martí International Airport in Havana. (EFE / Ernesto Mastrascusa / File) 14ymedio, Havana, 22 December 2020 — The Cuban government will require from January 1 to all international travelers a negative PCR test for Covid-19.TRANSLATING CUBA
For months signs have appeared in many private businesses and taxis informing customers that convertible pesos (CUCs) are not accepted.(14ymedio)
FIDEL CASTRO’S 13 MOST NOTORIOUS FAILURES / 14YMEDIO These are the 13 most notorious failures of the last 57 years, all attributable to the Maximum Leader. One of Fidel Castro’s first promises in 1959 was to drain the Zapata Swamp, the largest wetland in the Caribbean islands, and to use it for planting rice. After investing substantial resources and mobilizing a large labor force,the project
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When the schools open, some new measures will be taken, such as designing staggered schedules for recess and eliminating the morningassembly.
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Some suggest that, in Cuba, the sustained and increasing harassment of dissidents and independent civil society groups responds to a government offensive strategy designed to eliminate pockets of resistance to the dictatorship, marked at times by a preponderance of alternative civic sectors and the use of information technologies andcommunications.
TRANSLATOR: NORMA WHITING Havana Cathedral. The dialogue between the government of General Raúl Castro and the top hierarchy of the Catholic Church continues to generate discussions between different opposition groups and the independent civil society sectors.TRANSLATING CUBA
The most recent installment of this type of half-truth journalism – all the more harmful because it selects a fragment of reality but show only one of its faces – is a column authored by Mauricio Vicent, published in the Spanish newspaper El País, dated May 31 st, whose sole title (“Cuba and the United States Return to Times of Confrontation”) constitutes an inexplicable slip by suchTRANSLATING CUBA
14ymedio, Havana, May 26, 2021 — Independent Cuban reporter Mary Karla Ares, arrested at the demonstration on Obispo Street last April 30, was transferred this Wednesday to the Guatao women’s penitentiary, in the municipality of Bauta, Artemisa, according to her mother, Marisol González, speaking to 14ymedio. González, who wasable to
VENEZUELAN OIL EXPORTS TO CUBA RISE DESPITE A 19% DROP IN Venezuelan Oil Exports to Cuba Rise Despite a 19% Drop in Production. Oil production levels are recovering after the falls of the last year. (EFE) 14ymedio, Havana, 7 May 2021 — Oil production in Venezuela fell 19% in April compared to the same month of the previous year, which did not prevent exports from remaining stable at around 700,000YOANI SANCHEZ
When Etecsa offered the ability to connect from mobile phones, we were already “Internet users without internet.” (14ymedio) 14ymedio, Yoani Sánchez, Havana, 5 June 2021 – An uninvited presence hovered over the spacious room where the eighth Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) was held this April. The Internet was an unwanted and feared guest at the three-day event that tookTRANSLATING CUBA
Some suggest that, in Cuba, the sustained and increasing harassment of dissidents and independent civil society groups responds to a government offensive strategy designed to eliminate pockets of resistance to the dictatorship, marked at times by a preponderance of alternative civic sectors and the use of information technologies andcommunications.
COOKING OIL DONATED BY THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM BEING SOLD Cooking Oil Donated by the World Food Program Being Sold in Cuba. Photos of the bottles posted on Facebook drew strong criticism. (Collage) 14ymedio, Havana, May 1, 2021 — Cuba’s Ministry of Domestic Commerce responded on Thursday to the complaints about the sale of vegetable oil donated by the United Nations World Food Program(WFP).
TRANSLATING CUBA
I have vague memories of the articles about Glasnost in those incredible Sputnik magazines, before it was banned by the government in August 1989. With this act of censorship against those they considered the “murderers” of socialism, began, for me, the last chapter in the saga of the Cuban government, which began with a wandering journey to nowhere, very visible in the sector of the ELECTRIC TRICYCLES SELL LIKE CRAZY FOR DOLLARS IN CUBA Electric Tricycles Sell Like Crazy for Dollars in Cuba. 14ymedio, Juan Diego Rodríguez, Havana, 23 March 2021 — Those who visited the store that sells in hard currency (MLC) on Infanta Street, in Centro Habana, on Monday, could not believe it: for sale were the first electric vehicles for private sale in more than half a century. JINETERAS IN CUBAN PESOS / REINALDO EMILIO He approaches, asking, ’Looking for a girl. They’re good, nice and cheap.’. Five CUC (in domestic currency, one CUC=25 Cuban pesos) for the jinetera , one CUC for the intermediary, and another CUC for renting a room for an hour in some solar . For the most part small, dark, warm, not veryclean.
LA NIÑA DE PLACETAS, AN ESCAMBRAY LEGEND, DIES IN MIAMI In silence and surrounded by damp and foul-smelling walls, La Niña endured pain for her partner and for her compatriots executed at La Cabaña. Miami, April 9, 2018: During about the last ten years, there has been no evidence of either the existence or the survival of Zoila Aguila Almeida, La Niña de Placetas, also known as La Niña delTRANSLATING CUBA
The most recent installment of this type of half-truth journalism – all the more harmful because it selects a fragment of reality but show only one of its faces – is a column authored by Mauricio Vicent, published in the Spanish newspaper El País, dated May 31 st, whose sole title (“Cuba and the United States Return to Times of Confrontation”) constitutes an inexplicable slip by suchTRANSLATING CUBA
14ymedio, Havana, May 26, 2021 — Independent Cuban reporter Mary Karla Ares, arrested at the demonstration on Obispo Street last April 30, was transferred this Wednesday to the Guatao women’s penitentiary, in the municipality of Bauta, Artemisa, according to her mother, Marisol González, speaking to 14ymedio. González, who wasable to
VENEZUELAN OIL EXPORTS TO CUBA RISE DESPITE A 19% DROP IN Venezuelan Oil Exports to Cuba Rise Despite a 19% Drop in Production. Oil production levels are recovering after the falls of the last year. (EFE) 14ymedio, Havana, 7 May 2021 — Oil production in Venezuela fell 19% in April compared to the same month of the previous year, which did not prevent exports from remaining stable at around 700,000YOANI SANCHEZ
When Etecsa offered the ability to connect from mobile phones, we were already “Internet users without internet.” (14ymedio) 14ymedio, Yoani Sánchez, Havana, 5 June 2021 – An uninvited presence hovered over the spacious room where the eighth Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) was held this April. The Internet was an unwanted and feared guest at the three-day event that tookTRANSLATING CUBA
Some suggest that, in Cuba, the sustained and increasing harassment of dissidents and independent civil society groups responds to a government offensive strategy designed to eliminate pockets of resistance to the dictatorship, marked at times by a preponderance of alternative civic sectors and the use of information technologies andcommunications.
COOKING OIL DONATED BY THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM BEING SOLD Cooking Oil Donated by the World Food Program Being Sold in Cuba. Photos of the bottles posted on Facebook drew strong criticism. (Collage) 14ymedio, Havana, May 1, 2021 — Cuba’s Ministry of Domestic Commerce responded on Thursday to the complaints about the sale of vegetable oil donated by the United Nations World Food Program(WFP).
ELECTRIC TRICYCLES SELL LIKE CRAZY FOR DOLLARS IN CUBA Electric Tricycles Sell Like Crazy for Dollars in Cuba. 14ymedio, Juan Diego Rodríguez, Havana, 23 March 2021 — Those who visited the store that sells in hard currency (MLC) on Infanta Street, in Centro Habana, on Monday, could not believe it: for sale were the first electric vehicles for private sale in more than half a century.TRANSLATING CUBA
I have vague memories of the articles about Glasnost in those incredible Sputnik magazines, before it was banned by the government in August 1989. With this act of censorship against those they considered the “murderers” of socialism, began, for me, the last chapter in the saga of the Cuban government, which began with a wandering journey to nowhere, very visible in the sector of the JINETERAS IN CUBAN PESOS / REINALDO EMILIO He approaches, asking, ’Looking for a girl. They’re good, nice and cheap.’. Five CUC (in domestic currency, one CUC=25 Cuban pesos) for the jinetera , one CUC for the intermediary, and another CUC for renting a room for an hour in some solar . For the most part small, dark, warm, not veryclean.
LA NIÑA DE PLACETAS, AN ESCAMBRAY LEGEND, DIES IN MIAMI In silence and surrounded by damp and foul-smelling walls, La Niña endured pain for her partner and for her compatriots executed at La Cabaña. Miami, April 9, 2018: During about the last ten years, there has been no evidence of either the existence or the survival of Zoila Aguila Almeida, La Niña de Placetas, also known as La Niña delTRANSLATING CUBA
Cash withdrawals using pre-paid debit cards will only be in Cuban pesos (CUP) and only through one bank’s ATM network. (Radio Mambí) 14ymedio, Havana, 1 June 2021 — Cuba’s state-run currency exchange company, Cadeca, has announced “a new service”: prepaid cards in dollars to be used exclusively within Cuba to pay for goods and services in the country’s hard-currency retail network. ELECTRIC TRICYCLES SELL LIKE CRAZY FOR DOLLARS IN CUBA Electric Tricycles Sell Like Crazy for Dollars in Cuba. 14ymedio, Juan Diego Rodríguez, Havana, 23 March 2021 — Those who visited the store that sells in hard currency (MLC) on Infanta Street, in Centro Habana, on Monday, could not believe it: for sale were the first electric vehicles for private sale in more than half a century. “THE POLICE HAVE KIDNAPPED ME IN MY HOME FOR 60 DAYS A policeman and a State Security agent guard the surroundings of Iliana Hernández’s house, in Cojímar, Havana. (Capture) 14ymedio, Luz Escobar, Miami, 7 June 2021 — CiberCuba activist and reporter Iliana Hernández has been besieged for two months at her home by police and State Security agents. Not only do they prevent her from going out, but they also do not allow any of her friends to LIKE COFFEE AND RUM, TOBACCO DISAPPEARS FROM STORES IN 14ymedio, Natalia López, Moya, Havana, 3 June 2021 — On the island of cigars and cigar rag (cut tobacco), Cubans find themselves with the dilemma of acquiring packs ofTRANSLATING CUBA
Immigration control at the José Martí International Airport in Havana. (EFE / Ernesto Mastrascusa / File) 14ymedio, Havana, 22 December 2020 — The Cuban government will require from January 1 to all international travelers a negative PCR test for Covid-19.TRANSLATING CUBA
For months signs have appeared in many private businesses and taxis informing customers that convertible pesos (CUCs) are not accepted.(14ymedio)
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According to the Minister of Labor, the closed list of activities prevents Cubans from developing their native creativity. (14ymedio) 14ymedio, Havana, 7 August 2020 – Cuba’s rigid control on permissible self-employment activities has been eased with the elimination of the list of 123 activities permitted to the private sector, a measure announced Thursday by the Minister of Labor andTRANSLATING CUBA
When the schools open, some new measures will be taken, such as designing staggered schedules for recess and eliminating the morningassembly.
TRANSLATING CUBA
Some suggest that, in Cuba, the sustained and increasing harassment of dissidents and independent civil society groups responds to a government offensive strategy designed to eliminate pockets of resistance to the dictatorship, marked at times by a preponderance of alternative civic sectors and the use of information technologies andcommunications.
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Mausoleum with the ashes of Fidel Castro, in Santa Ifigenia Cemetery in Santa Clara. (cc) Juan Juan Almeida — On November 25th, the day on which we commemorate another anniversary of the death of Fidel Castro, a museum in his memory opened in Havana.TRANSLATING CUBA
The most recent installment of this type of half-truth journalism – all the more harmful because it selects a fragment of reality but show only one of its faces – is a column authored by Mauricio Vicent, published in the Spanish newspaper El País, dated May 31 st, whose sole title (“Cuba and the United States Return to Times of Confrontation”) constitutes an inexplicable slip by suchTRANSLATING CUBA
14ymedio, Havana, May 26, 2021 — Independent Cuban reporter Mary Karla Ares, arrested at the demonstration on Obispo Street last April 30, was transferred this Wednesday to the Guatao women’s penitentiary, in the municipality of Bauta, Artemisa, according to her mother, Marisol González, speaking to 14ymedio. González, who wasable to
VENEZUELAN OIL EXPORTS TO CUBA RISE DESPITE A 19% DROP IN Venezuelan Oil Exports to Cuba Rise Despite a 19% Drop in Production. Oil production levels are recovering after the falls of the last year. (EFE) 14ymedio, Havana, 7 May 2021 — Oil production in Venezuela fell 19% in April compared to the same month of the previous year, which did not prevent exports from remaining stable at around 700,000YOANI SANCHEZ
When Etecsa offered the ability to connect from mobile phones, we were already “Internet users without internet.” (14ymedio) 14ymedio, Yoani Sánchez, Havana, 5 June 2021 – An uninvited presence hovered over the spacious room where the eighth Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) was held this April. The Internet was an unwanted and feared guest at the three-day event that tookTRANSLATING CUBA
Some suggest that, in Cuba, the sustained and increasing harassment of dissidents and independent civil society groups responds to a government offensive strategy designed to eliminate pockets of resistance to the dictatorship, marked at times by a preponderance of alternative civic sectors and the use of information technologies andcommunications.
COOKING OIL DONATED BY THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM BEING SOLD Cooking Oil Donated by the World Food Program Being Sold in Cuba. Photos of the bottles posted on Facebook drew strong criticism. (Collage) 14ymedio, Havana, May 1, 2021 — Cuba’s Ministry of Domestic Commerce responded on Thursday to the complaints about the sale of vegetable oil donated by the United Nations World Food Program(WFP).
TRANSLATING CUBA
I have vague memories of the articles about Glasnost in those incredible Sputnik magazines, before it was banned by the government in August 1989. With this act of censorship against those they considered the “murderers” of socialism, began, for me, the last chapter in the saga of the Cuban government, which began with a wandering journey to nowhere, very visible in the sector of the ELECTRIC TRICYCLES SELL LIKE CRAZY FOR DOLLARS IN CUBA Electric Tricycles Sell Like Crazy for Dollars in Cuba. 14ymedio, Juan Diego Rodríguez, Havana, 23 March 2021 — Those who visited the store that sells in hard currency (MLC) on Infanta Street, in Centro Habana, on Monday, could not believe it: for sale were the first electric vehicles for private sale in more than half a century. JINETERAS IN CUBAN PESOS / REINALDO EMILIO He approaches, asking, ’Looking for a girl. They’re good, nice and cheap.’. Five CUC (in domestic currency, one CUC=25 Cuban pesos) for the jinetera , one CUC for the intermediary, and another CUC for renting a room for an hour in some solar . For the most part small, dark, warm, not veryclean.
LA NIÑA DE PLACETAS, AN ESCAMBRAY LEGEND, DIES IN MIAMI In silence and surrounded by damp and foul-smelling walls, La Niña endured pain for her partner and for her compatriots executed at La Cabaña. Miami, April 9, 2018: During about the last ten years, there has been no evidence of either the existence or the survival of Zoila Aguila Almeida, La Niña de Placetas, also known as La Niña delTRANSLATING CUBA
The most recent installment of this type of half-truth journalism – all the more harmful because it selects a fragment of reality but show only one of its faces – is a column authored by Mauricio Vicent, published in the Spanish newspaper El País, dated May 31 st, whose sole title (“Cuba and the United States Return to Times of Confrontation”) constitutes an inexplicable slip by suchTRANSLATING CUBA
14ymedio, Havana, May 26, 2021 — Independent Cuban reporter Mary Karla Ares, arrested at the demonstration on Obispo Street last April 30, was transferred this Wednesday to the Guatao women’s penitentiary, in the municipality of Bauta, Artemisa, according to her mother, Marisol González, speaking to 14ymedio. González, who wasable to
VENEZUELAN OIL EXPORTS TO CUBA RISE DESPITE A 19% DROP IN Venezuelan Oil Exports to Cuba Rise Despite a 19% Drop in Production. Oil production levels are recovering after the falls of the last year. (EFE) 14ymedio, Havana, 7 May 2021 — Oil production in Venezuela fell 19% in April compared to the same month of the previous year, which did not prevent exports from remaining stable at around 700,000YOANI SANCHEZ
When Etecsa offered the ability to connect from mobile phones, we were already “Internet users without internet.” (14ymedio) 14ymedio, Yoani Sánchez, Havana, 5 June 2021 – An uninvited presence hovered over the spacious room where the eighth Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) was held this April. The Internet was an unwanted and feared guest at the three-day event that tookTRANSLATING CUBA
Some suggest that, in Cuba, the sustained and increasing harassment of dissidents and independent civil society groups responds to a government offensive strategy designed to eliminate pockets of resistance to the dictatorship, marked at times by a preponderance of alternative civic sectors and the use of information technologies andcommunications.
COOKING OIL DONATED BY THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM BEING SOLD Cooking Oil Donated by the World Food Program Being Sold in Cuba. Photos of the bottles posted on Facebook drew strong criticism. (Collage) 14ymedio, Havana, May 1, 2021 — Cuba’s Ministry of Domestic Commerce responded on Thursday to the complaints about the sale of vegetable oil donated by the United Nations World Food Program(WFP).
TRANSLATING CUBA
I have vague memories of the articles about Glasnost in those incredible Sputnik magazines, before it was banned by the government in August 1989. With this act of censorship against those they considered the “murderers” of socialism, began, for me, the last chapter in the saga of the Cuban government, which began with a wandering journey to nowhere, very visible in the sector of the ELECTRIC TRICYCLES SELL LIKE CRAZY FOR DOLLARS IN CUBA Electric Tricycles Sell Like Crazy for Dollars in Cuba. 14ymedio, Juan Diego Rodríguez, Havana, 23 March 2021 — Those who visited the store that sells in hard currency (MLC) on Infanta Street, in Centro Habana, on Monday, could not believe it: for sale were the first electric vehicles for private sale in more than half a century. JINETERAS IN CUBAN PESOS / REINALDO EMILIO He approaches, asking, ’Looking for a girl. They’re good, nice and cheap.’. Five CUC (in domestic currency, one CUC=25 Cuban pesos) for the jinetera , one CUC for the intermediary, and another CUC for renting a room for an hour in some solar . For the most part small, dark, warm, not veryclean.
LA NIÑA DE PLACETAS, AN ESCAMBRAY LEGEND, DIES IN MIAMI In silence and surrounded by damp and foul-smelling walls, La Niña endured pain for her partner and for her compatriots executed at La Cabaña. Miami, April 9, 2018: During about the last ten years, there has been no evidence of either the existence or the survival of Zoila Aguila Almeida, La Niña de Placetas, also known as La Niña delTRANSLATING CUBA
Cash withdrawals using pre-paid debit cards will only be in Cuban pesos (CUP) and only through one bank’s ATM network. (Radio Mambí) 14ymedio, Havana, 1 June 2021 — Cuba’s state-run currency exchange company, Cadeca, has announced “a new service”: prepaid cards in dollars to be used exclusively within Cuba to pay for goods and services in the country’s hard-currency retail network. ELECTRIC TRICYCLES SELL LIKE CRAZY FOR DOLLARS IN CUBA Electric Tricycles Sell Like Crazy for Dollars in Cuba. 14ymedio, Juan Diego Rodríguez, Havana, 23 March 2021 — Those who visited the store that sells in hard currency (MLC) on Infanta Street, in Centro Habana, on Monday, could not believe it: for sale were the first electric vehicles for private sale in more than half a century. “THE POLICE HAVE KIDNAPPED ME IN MY HOME FOR 60 DAYS A policeman and a State Security agent guard the surroundings of Iliana Hernández’s house, in Cojímar, Havana. (Capture) 14ymedio, Luz Escobar, Miami, 7 June 2021 — CiberCuba activist and reporter Iliana Hernández has been besieged for two months at her home by police and State Security agents. Not only do they prevent her from going out, but they also do not allow any of her friends to LIKE COFFEE AND RUM, TOBACCO DISAPPEARS FROM STORES IN 14ymedio, Natalia López, Moya, Havana, 3 June 2021 — On the island of cigars and cigar rag (cut tobacco), Cubans find themselves with the dilemma of acquiring packs ofTRANSLATING CUBA
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A crowd of people lining up in front of a store in Havana, waiting for their turn to shop (Photo Mario Muñoz – Facebook). Ivan Garcia, Havana, 10 May 2021 — It is the law of survival of the fittest: only the most quarrelsome, opportunistic, and worthless citizens can getahead.
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14ymedio, Yoani Sanchez, Generation Y, Havana, 20 March 2021 — They arrived at dawn and in many cases they even seized the family photos. It was March 2003 and the news emerged in pieces as the police searches dragged on and neighbors began to speak COOKING OIL DONATED BY THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM BEING SOLD Photos of the bottles posted on Facebook drew strong criticism. (Collage) 14ymedio, Havana, May 1, 2021 — Cuba’s Ministry of Domestic Commerce responded on Thursday to the complaints about the sale of vegetable oil donated by the United Nations World Food Program(WFP).
JINETERAS IN CUBAN PESOS / REINALDO EMILIOJINETERAS IN HAVANA CUBACUBAN GANGSTERSCUBAN JINETERAS PRICECUBAN NIGHTLIFE FOR SINGLE MENJINETERAS EN VARADERO He approaches, asking, ’Looking for a girl. They’re good, nice and cheap.’. Five CUC (in domestic currency, one CUC=25 Cuban pesos) for the jinetera , one CUC for the intermediary, and another CUC for renting a room for an hour in some solar . For the most part small, dark, warm, not veryclean.
CUBAN ARTIST AND DESIGNER ROLANDO PULIDO DIES AT 58 14ymedio, Havana, 16 January 2021 — Cuban designer and artist Rolando Pulido died this Friday in New York at the age of 58. The artist, who decorated emblematic cultural spaces and was a FIDEL CASTRO’S 13 MOST NOTORIOUS FAILURES / 14YMEDIO These are the 13 most notorious failures of the last 57 years, all attributable to the Maximum Leader. One of Fidel Castro’s first promises in 1959 was to drain the Zapata Swamp, the largest wetland in the Caribbean islands, and to use it for planting rice. After investing substantial resources and mobilizing a large labor force,the project
THE DAY FIDEL CASTRO ELIMINATED PRIVATE BUSINESSES On 13 March 1968, on the steps of the University of Havana, Fidel Castro delivered a speech where he announced the so-called “Revolutionary Offensive” stage, a speech that we consider — from the ideological point of view — as the most important among his countless speeches. In retrospect, that date represented the final lift-off of the tragic journey, with no return tickets. which THE MALECONAZO, CUBA’S FIRST POPULAR REVOLT, HAPPENED 23 The Maleconazo, Cuba’s First Popular Revolt, Happened 23 Years Ago / Iván García. Ivan Garcia, 6 August 2017 — Havana, 4 August 1994. Amidst the suffocating heat, 12-hour blackouts, the devalued currency, and the scarcity of food, the sensations felt on the streets of Havana 23 years ago had reached the breaking point. AVERAGE MONTHLY SALARY IN CUBA IS $29.60 US The average monthly salary in Cuba, is 740 Cuban pesos, equivalent to just under $30 dollars US. EFE, via 14ymedio, Havana, 30 June 2017 – The average monthly salary in Cuba in 260 was 740 Cuban pesos (CUP), the equivalent of $29.60 in US dollars, although the figure is higher in sectors such as the sugar industry – where the best paid earn 1,246 CUP ($48.80 US), and falls in public WHERE TO HAVE SEX IN HAVANA? / CAMILO ERNESTO OLIVERA Havana, Cuba. It happened in the Motel on 11th and 24th streets, near the iron bridge connecting Vedado and Miramar. In a room rented for two hours, the unpleasant whisper was heard: “Mami, you have a wonderful stench!”. It was the 1980’s, Cuba was still receiving 5 billion in subsidy from the Soviet Union, the shortages of the SpecialTRANSLATING CUBA
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14ymedio, Yoani Sanchez, Generation Y, Havana, 20 March 2021 — They arrived at dawn and in many cases they even seized the family photos. It was March 2003 and the news emerged in pieces as the police searches dragged on and neighbors began to speak COOKING OIL DONATED BY THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM BEING SOLD Photos of the bottles posted on Facebook drew strong criticism. (Collage) 14ymedio, Havana, May 1, 2021 — Cuba’s Ministry of Domestic Commerce responded on Thursday to the complaints about the sale of vegetable oil donated by the United Nations World Food Program(WFP).
JINETERAS IN CUBAN PESOS / REINALDO EMILIOJINETERAS IN HAVANA CUBACUBAN GANGSTERSCUBAN JINETERAS PRICECUBAN NIGHTLIFE FOR SINGLE MENJINETERAS EN VARADERO He approaches, asking, ’Looking for a girl. They’re good, nice and cheap.’. Five CUC (in domestic currency, one CUC=25 Cuban pesos) for the jinetera , one CUC for the intermediary, and another CUC for renting a room for an hour in some solar . For the most part small, dark, warm, not veryclean.
CUBAN ARTIST AND DESIGNER ROLANDO PULIDO DIES AT 58 14ymedio, Havana, 16 January 2021 — Cuban designer and artist Rolando Pulido died this Friday in New York at the age of 58. The artist, who decorated emblematic cultural spaces and was a FIDEL CASTRO’S 13 MOST NOTORIOUS FAILURES / 14YMEDIO These are the 13 most notorious failures of the last 57 years, all attributable to the Maximum Leader. One of Fidel Castro’s first promises in 1959 was to drain the Zapata Swamp, the largest wetland in the Caribbean islands, and to use it for planting rice. After investing substantial resources and mobilizing a large labor force,the project
THE DAY FIDEL CASTRO ELIMINATED PRIVATE BUSINESSES On 13 March 1968, on the steps of the University of Havana, Fidel Castro delivered a speech where he announced the so-called “Revolutionary Offensive” stage, a speech that we consider — from the ideological point of view — as the most important among his countless speeches. In retrospect, that date represented the final lift-off of the tragic journey, with no return tickets. which THE MALECONAZO, CUBA’S FIRST POPULAR REVOLT, HAPPENED 23 The Maleconazo, Cuba’s First Popular Revolt, Happened 23 Years Ago / Iván García. Ivan Garcia, 6 August 2017 — Havana, 4 August 1994. Amidst the suffocating heat, 12-hour blackouts, the devalued currency, and the scarcity of food, the sensations felt on the streets of Havana 23 years ago had reached the breaking point. AVERAGE MONTHLY SALARY IN CUBA IS $29.60 US The average monthly salary in Cuba, is 740 Cuban pesos, equivalent to just under $30 dollars US. EFE, via 14ymedio, Havana, 30 June 2017 – The average monthly salary in Cuba in 260 was 740 Cuban pesos (CUP), the equivalent of $29.60 in US dollars, although the figure is higher in sectors such as the sugar industry – where the best paid earn 1,246 CUP ($48.80 US), and falls in public WHERE TO HAVE SEX IN HAVANA? / CAMILO ERNESTO OLIVERA Havana, Cuba. It happened in the Motel on 11th and 24th streets, near the iron bridge connecting Vedado and Miramar. In a room rented for two hours, the unpleasant whisper was heard: “Mami, you have a wonderful stench!”. It was the 1980’s, Cuba was still receiving 5 billion in subsidy from the Soviet Union, the shortages of the Special CUBA POSTPONES ROLLOUT OF THE SOBERANA VACCINE Cuba Postpones Rollout of the Soberana Vaccine. Phase III trials of the Soberana vaccine will involve 44,000 people. 14ymedio, Havana, March 8, 2021 — Rollout of the Cuban vaccine will begin later than had been expected. At the end of December Vicente Verez, director of the Cuban Finlay Institute, predicted that vaccinations could begin in AT LEAST ONE SERIOUS INJURY IN THE COLLAPSE OF BUILDINGS At Least One Serious Injury in the Collapse of Buildings on Havana’s Malecon. 14ymedio, Juan Diego Rodríguez, Havana, 22 April 2021 — At least one man was seriously injured on Thursday when two buildings completely collapsed and part of a third also fell on Havana’s Malecón. The buildings were semi-dilapidated, fenced with metal ELECTRIC TRICYCLES SELL LIKE CRAZY FOR DOLLARS IN CUBA Electric Tricycles Sell Like Crazy for Dollars in Cuba. 14ymedio, Juan Diego Rodríguez, Havana, 23 March 2021 — Those who visited the store that sells in hard currency (MLC) on Infanta Street, in Centro Habana, on Monday, could not believe it: for sale were the first electric vehicles for private sale in more than half a century. OTERO ALCANTARA LEAVES HAVANA HOSPITAL AFTER A MONTH OF Screen captures of a video that Otero Alcántara made when he left Havana’s Calixto García hospital this Monday. (Collage) 14ymedio, Luz Escobar, Havana, 31 May 2021 — “I am relatively well, from a physical point of view but, emotionally, worried about all my brothers,” Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara told CubaNet Noticias shortly after leaving Calixto García Hospital.TRANSLATING CUBA
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Father Maikel Gómez said that “the freedom of the children of God” “can never be coerced, much less conditioned.” (Facebook) 14ymedio, Lorey Saman, Mexico, 26 December 2020 — The voices of Cuban priests have made themselves heard with great force in recentmonths.
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Cash withdrawals using pre-paid debit cards will only be in Cuban pesos (CUP) and only through one bank’s ATM network. (Radio Mambí) 14ymedio, Havana, 1 June 2021 — Cuba’s state-run currency exchange company, Cadeca, has announced “a new service”: prepaid cards in dollars to be used exclusively within Cuba to pay for goods and services in the country’s hard-currency retail network. The new operation, which is not yet available, is an effort to take over cash remittance transfers from Western Union, which recently suspended operations in Cuba. According to an advertisement shared on Facebook by Cadeca vice-president Alejandro Velazquez, the new prepaid cards will be issued exclusively by the Bank of Credit and Commerce (Bandec) in 200, 500 and 1,000 dollar amounts, though the state-owned company has yetto provide details.
As the ad notes, cash withdrawals can only be in Cuban pesos (CUP) and only through the bank’s ATM network. Withdrawals cannot be exchanged for foreign currency and the bank maintains it is not obliged to return any unused funds. It is not yet known when the cards will go into circulation._ continue reading_ Velasco also does not indicate where the cards will be available, if Cadeca and Bandec will be directly involved in their sale or issue, or if it will be possible to purchase them online from abroad as can now be done with rechargeable telephone debit cards issued of the state telecommunications monopoly Etecsa. The new service could simplify the purchasing process for those who shop at the country’s hard currency stores, where customers must pay using a pre-paid debit card. Currently, consumers are required to use a card issued by a foreign bank or one obtained by opening a foreign currency account at a Cuban bank, a process that could take weeks.
The Cuban government has set the currency exchange rate at 24 pesos to the dollar — the unofficial rate is at 600 and rising — making it virtually impossible to buy dollars through official channels. On May 20 Cuban airports abruptly stopped selling hard currency without prior warning. The news came via a message on social media posted by Cadeca a few hours before the decision took effect. The company claimed that the drop in tourism due to the pandemic resulted in a “significant shortage” of hard currency, adding that, though it had been able to operate normally up to that point, the lack of liquidity had reached an unsustainable level. The government is now taking drastic action in an all-out quest to obtain hard currency. One indiction of this is the many neighborhood stores that no longer sell merchandise in pesos and will only accept payment in foreign currency, a dollarization of the Cuban economy that is spreading throughout the country. The number of these state-run stores is growing by the day. The transition is causing consternation among the buying public, who see the change as a sign of economic instability and monetary discrimination. Nevertheless, authorities remain undeterred in their efforts to obtain foreign reserves at any cost. As of June 5, Cuban residents who who return home through airports at the country’s two international resort hotspots, Ciego de Ávila and Varadero, will have to pay in hard currency for a mandatory one-week hotel quarantine package. Among the reasons given by health authorities is “the need to reduce costs associated with fightingthe pandemic.”
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CUBAN GOVERNMENT ORGANIZES AN ACT OF REPUDIATION AGAINST TANIABRUGUERA
The Hannah Arendt International Institute of Artivism (Instar) denounced what occurred in a press release published on social networks. (Collage) 14ymedio, Havana, 3 June 2021 — On Thursday afternoon at the headquarters of the Hannah Arendt International Institute of Artivism (Instar),
the artist Tania Bruguera received a visit from a group made up of about fifteen people who warned her of the consequences of continuing with her activities and demands. At the head of the collective was a woman who presented the others as “community factors” and told the artist that she has to quit “with the little game” and “the counterrevolution.” “We have to tell you that it has to end with the ’savage’ horde and the counterrevolution you have here. We are waiting for one of you to come out to face us, but since you don’t have the courage, quit with this here and now,” the woman said excitedly. “All of you are worms,
fine,” she continued. “We here in the community are not going to allow, not from you or anyone else, this disaster that you are creating here.” The leader of the group described those present as “revolutionary troops” and maintained that they will not consent to any act of the “counterrevolution” because in this community “there are women and men that can ’make waves’ ,” she added._ continue reading_ Bruguera told _14ymedio_ that the group arrived at her house without even knowing what Instar is and believes that what happened was more than an act of repudiation. “It was an alert… something very strange, a threat,” said the artist. “It is evident that whose who gave them an order didn’t prepare them. It seemed like a rushed and poorly prepared event. What was clear is that there were people willing to strike out and who wanted confrontation. Their objective was to provoke, but in Instar our philosophy is that violence it is eliminated with civic education,”said the artist.
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a statement published on social networks in which it specified that the intention of the group was to speak with Tania Bruguera, but thatat that moment the artist was in a work meeting. “It is common for neighbors of our headquarters and other Cuban citizens to contact us for matters related to the neighborhood or personal situations. However, this number of people has never come together, they have always identified themselves with their names and the matter to be discussed, and, above all, they have never filmed us from the opposite sidewalk, as happened in this case and is recorded in the attached video,” the note states. In the recording you can see the visual artist Camila Lobón, one of the coordinators of the space, greet the group through a grating. Lobón asks that they identify themselves as she does not recognize them as neighbors of the neighborhood. “Only then did they say, without further details, they were ’from the community of the Cathedral’, where our institute is located,” the post clarifies. When Lobón realizes that there is a person filming from the sidewalk in front, she also begins to record the second part ofthe conversation.
“It is obvious that these are acts planned by the Government, they do arise spontaneously or from the conscience of the citizens. The woman who launches the threats initially confuses Aminta D’Cárdenas, one of our coordinators, with Tania. Then she rectifies it can calls her ’ringleader’,” the post says. According to Instar, none of the residents of the neighborhood participated in this act and greeted the members of the institute “kindly” when they left the headquarters minuteslater.
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OTERO ALCANTARA LEAVES HAVANA HOSPITAL AFTER A MONTH OF FORCEDCONFINEMENT
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captures of a video that Otero Alcántara made when he left Havana’s Calixto García hospital this Monday. (Collage) 14ymedio, Luz Escobar, Havana, 31 May 2021 — “I am relatively well, from a physical point of view but, emotionally, worried about all my brothers,” Luis Manuel Otero Alcántaratold _CubaNet
Noticias _shortly after leaving Calixto García Hospital. The artist announced that health “tests” will be carried out outside the “control of State Security.” The chronology of what he has lived through in the last four weeks begins to become clear. After arriving at the hospital on May 2nd, he spent a week drinking fluids “so I could be aware of what was happening with me at that time” and “to be able to think,” as he arrived at the health center “despondent,” he clarifies. “A week after I was there, once again I started my hunger and thirst fasting,” he said. About a week after, he called off the strike and stated that for about 15 days he has been eating again, and that hehas also hydrated.
He also said that, before issuing opinions on everything that the political police have published about him during his imprisonment, he prefers to see all the videos that they leaked and what they have said about his family: “I want to see everything that is happening, get updated to be able to judge what went on.”_ continue reading_ _“A WEEK AFTER BEING THERE, ONCE AGAIN I STARTED MY HUNGER ANDTHIRST FASTING”_
In relation to one of the videos where he seemed to be very thin and which caused concern among his friends, he insisted that he spent about eight days without eating and drinking water, and “of course, he was emaciated,” he said. “All my friends have to be on the street. State Security had a meeting with me before leaving, they warned me of a thousand things, but my friends have to be on the street now… We are connected,” said the artist, referring to the phrase that has become his lifemotto.
Shortly before, a note from the Provincial Health Directorate had reported that the medical team treating him had decided to “have him discharged from the hospital today.” The official note added that “during his hospital stay, his progress has been favorable, with clinical and laboratory parameters that are all within normalranges.”
In addition, the note specified that for several days he “has been on a free diet, which meets nutritional needs” and that this has allowed for “weight gain and requirements for recovery of hisenergy.”
Otero Alcántara’s family was putting pressure on health personnel to achieve this goal. The artist had been held in the hospital for 29 days without being able to communicate with his friends and was only seen through manipulated videos, which were released by StateSecurity.
Family sources confirmed to _14ymedio_ that the health authorities of the hospital had communicated that this Monday they were going to discharge the artist. At first, the family assumed that Otero Alcántara was going to leave the medical center last Friday, however, “that did not happen.” _THE ARTIST HAD BEEN HELD IN THE HOSPITAL FOR 29 DAYS WITHOUT BEING ABLE TO COMMUNICATE WITH HIS FRIENDS AND WAS ONLY SEEN THROUGHMANIPULATED VIDEOS_
Relatives said they went to Calixto García Hospital but they did not discharge him and the doctors reported that they would do so this Monday. In addition, they insisted that the activist would not return to his home on Damas Street, in the San Isidro neighborhood, Old Havana municipality. “When he gets hold of a phone, Luisito is going to tell everything that happened, he is going to denounce everything and he will continue to be a _plantado_ (an uncooperative prisoner),” Enix Berrio, who is Otero Alcántara’s close friend, told _14ymedio_. Some family members, Berrio assures, are upset with the actions of State Security and the authorities, who “have manipulated” the situation “at will… Initially, personal experience led them to believe that they were going to help Luisito and that we are the bad guys, that we wanted to drag him to hell, but the family verified that the G2 is a string of manipulators and that they are affecting Luisito,” he admonished. Otero Alcántara went on a hunger and thirst strike on April 25th to demand that his rights be respected, after a month of police siege to his home. The activist also demanded the return of his artistic works or compensation for those that were destroyed by the political police. After several days of fasting, in the early morning of May 2nd, he was taken from his home against his will to the Calixto García Hospital. During his stay at the hospital, he had no communication with his colleagues at the San Isidro Movement (MSI)and very little
with his family.
In addition, a police cordon guarded the surroundings of the Havana hospital. Although at the time of his admission the authorities confirmed that he was being admitted due to “referred voluntary starvation,” a few hours later they leaked the results of an analysis that supposedly were his vitals and that described a good state of health, even suggesting that one of the values was high due to high consumption of meat. _THE GOVERNMENT’S PROPAGANDA APPARATUS HAS NOT STOPPED CAMPAIGNING TO DISCREDIT OTERO ALCÁNTARA, ACCUSING HIM OF RECEIVING INSTRUCTIONS AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT FROM ABROAD_ _ _During all the time he was held at the Calixto García, the political police published several videos of the artist, possibly filmed without his consent. At all times they alleged that he was in good health, without giving explanations about the reasons for hishospitalization.
The government’s propaganda apparatus has not stopped campaigning to discredit Otero Alcántara, accusing him of receiving instructions and financial support from abroad, while international organizations have expressed concern over the kidnapping of the artist. Amnesty International declared him a “prisoner of conscience” on May 21st and urged President Miguel Díaz-Canel to release him “immediately and unconditionally.” They also demanded that he should receive medical care of his choice, periodic visits from his family and friends, not be tortured or suffer any other type of mistreatment, and have access to lawyers of his choice.” The Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba (FDHC) insisted that it is prosecuting “as violent repressors… those people who are cooperating with State Security in inflicting temporary or irreversible damage to Otero Alcántara at the hospital.” The executive director of the NGO, Juan Antonio Blanco, noted that the Cuban regime has already used “corrupt doctors and nurses in the past to torture using electroshocks, drugs and other practices.” _Translated by Norma Whiting_____________
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Translator: Norma Whiting SURVIVING IN THE CUBAN JUNGLE / IVAN GARCIAA
crowd of people lining up in front of a store in Havana, waiting for their turn to shop (Photo Mario Muñoz – Facebook). Ivan Garcia, Havana, 10 May 2021 — It is the law of survival of the fittest: only the most quarrelsome, opportunistic, and worthless citizens can get ahead. From top to bottom, today’s Cuban society is a jungle. A failed state that lives off ideological propaganda, promises it never keeps, and a chaotic subsistence economy. If you ask Magda – a 40-year-old from Havana who supports herself by reselling for dollars the merchandise she buys at exclusive stores and has made a business out of managing the long lines of shoppers – why this is so, she will give you a concise answer: “The system forces you.” She is silent for a few seconds and then makes thefollowing case:
“The Cuban system works by caste. The _mayimbes_ (bosses) do not want for anything, nor do the senior officers in the armed forces. They get free housing and food, and they can take vacations at recreational villas for reasonable prices. Mid-level party officials also enjoy their little privileges. The _cuadros_ (administrators) of tourism, domestic trade and other ministries and large companies, they live by stealing and profiting from food, fuel and construction materials. We – those at the bottom, the marginalized, almost all blacks – who live in poverty, we have to fight each other for the crumbs. Wherever money can be made, that’s where I’ll be. I’m not afraid to fight, and I’m not afraid of the police. Whatever it takes.”_ continue reading_ Then in a calm voice, Magda recounts how since childhood she has had to deal with family violence, husbands who beat her, and neighborhood fights. “I have been imprisoned twice. There, you have to be a lioness. It’s not that I’m a bad person, but I don’t have too many options. Either I sit on my hands while my children go to bed hungry, or I go out and fight in the street for money and food. Necessity forces me to fight like a beast to get ahead.” Like Magda, many women and men in the capital and in other provinces make a living by earning dollars organizing the lines, buying food for resale, and bribing police officers and officials who are supposed to be ensuring the social order. “You also have to grease the palms of store managers and employees. There are people who spend a week in line and never reach what they need. If you don’t pay 500 or a thousand pesos to a _colero_ (someone who stands in line – “cola” – for others) you won’t get anything. If it’s a freezer you’re after, you have to pay them $70 or $100. It’s hard, but right now in Cuba, the law of the jungle rules,” Magda explains. At any store in Havana, the _coleros_ have organized a corrupt structure in cahoots with store managers and employees. On the outskirts of the market at 5th and 42nd in Miramar, half a thousand people await entry to go shopping. A policeman tells the crowd that only the first 150 will be allowed in. “The rest of you, please go home,” he says. Those who have not advanced to one of those spots have an alternative: they can, for a higher price, buy food and toiletries at private homes nearby.
Let’s call him Hiram, who works by walking the lines and quietly selling places for a thousand pesos. “In this country there are three types of Cubans. Those who rule, who do what they want and are accountable to no one. Those who have no choice but to silently endure the foot that the government puts down on them. And the dissidents, who are cocky, but lacking weapons, are not going to overthrow the regime. Most of the population are terrified of joining the opposition, because they can lock you away for many years. Criminals don’t want anything to do with the opposition, either. However, there is an unwritten pact between the government and the underworld: they let you do what you want as long as you don’t get into politics,” explains Hiram. He goes on to say: “That’s why you see a bunch of people in the worst neighborhoods of Havana selling stolen items, and the police don’t even show up there. Drug dealers generally work for the police, as do the higher-level prostitutes. I don’t like communism. In 1980, when I was 23 years old, I got into the Peruvian embassy. We were ten thousand people and Fidel only sent a thousand boxes of food and bottles of water. They would do this to get us to fight with each other. Now it’s the same thing. (Cuban President) Díaz-Canel’s strategy, he has said, is to break off little pieces of problems, not solve them. I was in the United States and I was arrested, and they returned me as undesirable. I have to live off something. And the best I know how to do is be in the jungle, the fights and the illegalities. When you see two old men wrapped around a package of sausages, you realize that things in this country do not work.” For a high percentage of Cubans it is a big production just to eat, buy soap, or obtain medicines. Any errand takes five or six hours. The atrocious inefficiency of the olive-green* economic model forces the citizens to travel long distances and line up for miles to try to get a roll of toilet paper or a bottle of soda. In the midst of the shortages, the eternal economic crisis, and the sustained pandemic outbreak (which has practically collapsed the healthcare system in Havana) the authorities – instead of calling back the thousands of specialists and doctors who work abroad to provide dollars to the State – bet on bringing doctors in from other provinces. Public health is at a low ebb in Cuba. There is a scarcity of healthcare personnel, dozens of ambulances are halted for lack of spare parts, and there is a brutal shortage of antibiotics, syringes, and medicines. One doctor said that “physicians and nurses who work on the front line treating Covid-19 patients are exhausted. They have spent many months working in precarious conditions, deprived of the necessary security, and subsisting on a very poor diet. Government propaganda claims that the public health system here works wonders, but this is a lie. There are shortages from water to gauze and cotton swabs, not to mention broken medical equipment.” Carlos, a sociologist, opines that “in times of economic crisis, the worst qualities of human beings come to light, such as selfishness and lack of solidarity. Civic values are deteriorating, while speculation, theft and abuse of the weakest increases.” These days, a 3-kilogram portion of Gouda cheese, which in foreign currency stores costs between 25 and 27 dollars (625 and 675 pesos at the official exchange), is resold on the black market for 1,900 or 2,100 pesos. A pound of chicken for 20 pesos is resold for 50 or 55 pesos. The pound of black beans that a year ago cost 10 pesos now costs 60. The kilogram of powdered milk that cost 40 pesos is offered at 300 or 350 pesos. Two packages of sandwich cookies and three of crackers, whose price was 70 pesos, are not available for less than 700 pesos. And worst of all, even with money in your pocket, you don’t always find what you’re seeking. The biggest speculators are the regime’s commercial companies. The foods that are offered in stores for dollars – the so-called MLC (freely convertible currency) – obtain profit margins that sometimes exceed 300%, says an official of the _TRD Caribe_ chain. And he gives this example: “A _Samsung_ side-by-side refrigerator costs $1,870 here. At a retail store in Mexico, it might not even sell for $ 1,500. It’s abusive. If the reseller doesn’t murder you with his speculative prices, the State will gouge you with its inflatedprices.”
The Cuba of today is an absurdity. A savage mix of dysfunctional, Soviet-style socialism and rudimentary feudal capitalism, sustained by a Zimbabwe-like public infrastructure, with prices comparable to those of Switzerland. Castroism continues to boast that its imperishable revolution was made by the humble and for the humble. But the reality is that on the Island, the poorest eat a hot meal once a day and live in precarious huts made of aluminum and cardboard pieces. The Cuban model is a snapshot of rampant bureaucracy, full-throttle corruption, and mediocre officials. And in that jungle, people must manage as best they can to survive. _*Translator’s note: A reference to the color of the combat fatigues worn for years by Cuba’s top echelon of leaders._ _Translated By: Alicia Barraqué Ellison_SHARE THIS:
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Translator: Alicia Barraqué Ellison CUBA’S ‘MAN WITH THE FLAG’ CONTINUES TO US AFTER DETENTION INCOLUMBIA
“We are in Colombia now and we continue on our way to the United States, I will report as we go,” Llorente told ’14ymedio’. (Courtesy) 14ymedio, Havana, 1 June 2021 — Daniel Llorente Miranda, known as “the man with theflag” since, in
2017, he ran holding the United States banner in the Plaza of the Revolution during the May 1 parade, was released this Sunday in Caracas after spend nine days in detention, along with his son, for having entered Venezuela illegally. Both were deported this weekend to the border with Colombia. “Everything is fine, we have already left Venezuela, we are in Colombia now and we continue on our way to the United States, I will report as we go,” Llorente told _14ymedio_. According to his account, on May 21 at around six in the afternoon when he arrived with his son at a hotel in Caracas where they planned to spend the night before continuing on their way, they were detained along with other Cubans by members of the Special Actions Forces(Faes).
“We were accompanied by two friends of ours who are also Venezuelan police officers and we had met them on the bus that went from Bolívar state to Caracas. Someone betrayed us, we believe it was the bus driver. It was State Security that one that stopped us at the hotel, then took us to the station.”_ continue reading_ Llorente explains that in the police station they were treated well, “and with respect,” he added. “We were there until Monday the 24th when they transferred us to immigration and they left us there until Sunday the 30th, when we were released.” The Cuban and his son Eliécer met up in December in Guyana where the opponent had resided since May 2019, when, according to his testimony, he had to leave Cuba due to “pressure” and “threats” from State Security.
The activist spent more than a yearin
Havana’s Mazorra Psychiatric Hospital. He
was transferred to the medical center by the political police after crying out for “freedom for Cuba” while running with the US flag in his hands and the Cuban flag on his short, a few yard from the rostrum where then-President Raúl Castro was seated and in front of the accredited press and foreign guests. Llorente, born in 1963m graduated in engineering in the former German Democratic Republic, and became popular for his activism after the diplomatic thaw between Havana and Washington.____________
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IN CUBA THE USE OF SOLAR ENERGY DEPENDS ON THE STATE AND CHINA The Cuban government sees solar energy as a way to take advantage of a natural resource the country has abundance but investment remains a major hurdle. (Radio Progreso) 14ymedio, Havana, 26 May 2021 — China will donate 5,000 solar panels to Cuba for use in rural parts of the country. The panels have yet to be delivered but a symbolic handover took place on Monday at a ceremony in Guangzhou attended by Denisse Llamos, the Cuban consul general in that city. Llamos thanked the Chinese Ministry of Ecology and Environment for the donation, praising China’s involvement in the fight against climate change despite the fact that the Asian giant remains the world’s biggest polluter and promised to reduce emissions only ayear ago.
China’s sudden environmental awareness began in 2020 when it announced a shift in policy and committed to one of the world’s most radical reductions in air pollutants. The world’s two largest economies, the US and China, account for 43% of the world’s emissions._ continue reading_ Since Xi Jingpin announced a new commitment to fighting climate change, Cuba has also ramped up its rhetoric on this issue. On accepting the donation in Guangzhou, the consul general described the gesture as “a sign of successful cooperation between the two socialist nations” to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The Cuban representative attending the event emphasized that multilateralism and global cooperation are the only options for confronting climate change. China will also supply the island with 25,000 LED bulbs “to address electricity problems of families in remote rural areas.” The collaborative relationship in solar energy between Cuba and China, however, predates the environmental interest recently expressed by both nations, which three years ago inaugurated the Pinar 220 A2 photovoltaic solar park. The installation consists of 15,500 solar panels manufactured by the Chinese firm Yingly and operates between 8:00 AM and 7:00 PM. According to a 2019 report issued by the Xinhua agency, the plant was delivering roughly 4.4 gigawatts of power per hour to the Cuban National Electric System. Trade between the island and the Asian economic giant has declined in recent years due to the Cuban regime’s unpaid debt to Peking. For example, imports of Chinese goods fell 40% in 2020, following a trend of the last five years. The Cuban government sees solar energy as a way to take advantage of a natural resource the country has abundance but investment remains the major hurdle in building the infrastructure needed to harvest a solarenergy.
Before the pandemic, the island had planned to build sixty-five facilities of this type while another fifteen were under development. These would have increased the current power supply by 42 gigawatts, or about 1.15% of national consumption. Late last year The Cuban Electric Union (UNE) acknowledged that it was unable to guarantee production of photovoltaic for retail sale to the public. Imported devices like these can cost between 200 and 1,000 pesos for panels ranging from 900 watts to fifteen kilowatts. According to data from the state-owned energy company, five 260-watt devices are required to meet the energy needs of a home with an average monthly consumption of 185 kWh. In mid-March, executives of the Cuban customs service and UNE announced a prompt lifting of tariffs, which the electric company said was responsible for the current shortage. However, this has not yethappened.
Currently the government is selling photovoltaic systems for hard currency in online stores targeted to Cubans living overseas who make purchases for family on the Island. For example, a 270-watt solar panel is selling on Bazar Virtual, a site belonging to state-owned Copextel, for $2,549.02.____________
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THE CUBAN BASEBALL FEDERATION SUFFERS FROM HISTORICAL AMNESIAKiele
Alessandra Cabrera during her intrusion on the field of the Palm Beach stadium during the game between Cuba and Venezuela. (Screen capture) 14ymedio, Yoani Sanchez, Generation Y, Havana, 1 June 2021 — The writer Eliseo Alberto Diego, known as _Lichi_, used to say that “history is a cat who always falls on her feet.” The Cuban Baseball Federation should be warned about this ability of the past to stand up, a way of avoiding silenceand manipulation.
The official entity has protested the events that occurred in this Monday’s pre-Olympic baseball game between the teams from Cuba and Venezuela. In an exalted note, it describes as “unacceptable that characters contrary to the spirit of a sporting event attempt against the team’s concentration.” The tantrum is in response to the posters with the phrases “Homeland and Life,” “Free Cuba,” and criticisms of Miguel Díaz-Canel, that were displayed in the stands of the West Palm Beach stadium during the live broadcast of the game, displays that Cuban State television was unable to prevent from sneaking into the Tele Rebelde channel. But it turns out that what happened yesterday is part of a civic tradition of baseball field protests that the regime itself praised when they occurred in Republican era Cuba._ continue reading_ On December 4, 1955, a group of young people threw themselves onto the field of the Cerro stadium while a game was being played between teams from Havana and Almendares. They carried a banner with demands against the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, with the moment captured by the television cameras broadcasting the ballgame, allowing the images to reach the screens of thousands of spectators throughoutthe island.
According to the official Cuban discourse, that action was more than justified, and they constantly recall it as a revolutionary feat. But with regards to what happened this Monday, they reproach the Florida stadium guards for not having acted “as established by the securityprotocols”…
The story is nothing other than a feline with a penetrating gaze that flips in the air and ends up landing with its nails on the susceptible skin of those who want to hide and distort it.____________
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OTERO ALCANTARA: ‘THE TORTURE I SUFFERED WAS PSYCHOLOGICAL’Otero
Alcántara spoke with ’14ymedio’ after being discharged this Monday after four weeks in solitary confinement in a hospital inHavana. (EFE)
14ymedio, Luz Escobar, Havana, 1 June 2021 – Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara does not plan to pause or take a rest in his art or his activism. A few hours after leaving Calixto García Hospital, where he has been for almost a month without hardly any outside communication, he told _14ymedio_ that he is now ready to demand freedom for the activists in prison as a result of the April 30th protests on Obispo Street in Havana, and for Maykel ‘_Osorbo’_ Castillo accused of attack, contempt and resistance, who has been in prisonsince Monday.
“My grandmother died, I came here to be with my family, also because this was where there was a landline phone, arriving at my house Damas Street without a cell phone I was still incommunicado,” says the artist, who had just left the hospital. He went to his family home, in El Cerro, to spend at least two days in their company. Otero Alcántara is clear and begins by confirming that, when they took him out of his home in the early morning of May 2 to take him to the hospital, they did so “by force” and “handcuffed.” 14YMEDIO. What was your arrival at the hospital like and how did your hunger and thirst strike end? OTERO ALCÁNTARA. When I arrived, I let them give me an IV so I could be aware of what was happening, because I was very weak. The next day I started drinking water, they gave me juice and some milk. A week passed and the following Monday I started the thirst strike again, the hunger strike was continuing. Then a fortnight ago, I started eating. Now I’m upset but okay, they are seeing the end._ continuereading_
14YMEDIO. What was your daily routine at Calixto García? OTERO ALCÁNTARA. I spent all morning drawing or reading and in the morning they took my vital signs. Right now, talking about this is complex. I could say that I was tortured this way and that, but it would be dishonest. The torture I suffered was psychological. They kept the light on 24 hours a day, there was always a military man nextto me
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and if I spent more than 5 minutes in the bathroom he was knocking on the door. It was terribly cold the whole day and there was the fear that at any moment they can take you to another place. Plus the isolation. All that was torture. My family was not allowed in when they wanted, when I saw them it was from a distance, like ten to twelve feet away. Of the four or five times that I saw my sister or my aunt it was at that distance, only once were we able to see each other up close and give each other a kiss and a hug, but only for five minutes, no more than that. 14YMEDIO. Were you always in the same room or were you transferredfrom time to time?
OTERO ALCÁNTARA. I was in the Rubén Batista room the whole time. The three times they took me out was for those famous walks, which were supposedly to catch the sun but were actually for them to film me. The prisoners go out to sunbathe every day, but I was under air conditioning 24 hours a day and they took me out once a week, that waspremeditated.
14YMEDIO. The video in which you go outside with Dr. Ifrán Martínez,
how was it arranged? How was your relationship with the doctors? OTERO ALCÁNTARA. The video was a conscience act. I understood that I had to send a message to people, I had to say something. The doctors who were there waiting for me were the ones that State Security selected, and valued certain characteristics. They were directed to behave in a certain way, they could not spend much time with me and they recorded on a piece of paper when they arrived and left with their name and position. Those doctors had a certain chance to talk to me. Ifran brought me books, I read 12 books in that month. They also brought me pens and paper and I began to draw pictures. I drew a lot, although with the fear that State Security would take itaway from me.
14YMEDIO. How strict was the operation around you? OTERO ALCÁNTARA. Everything was very well controlled by State Security, they were there constantly. Dr. Ifran was concerned because his face had already appeared on television, and here everyone knows that this means he may have 10 days, 20 days or two years left. I feel that they are concerned, because their children do not want their father to be the one who was later found to have tortured Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara. I noticed that they wanted to make very clear the difference between them and State Security and to emphasize that they were there because they were given the mission to save me. The hospital was totally taken over by State Security, I think that was the way they found to keep me undercontrol.
14YMEDIO. How did you come to leave the hospital? OTERO ALCÁNTARA. My uncle went to the hospital to get me and a car brought us here. Now I have freedom of movement to go wherever I want. My house on Damas Street still has the police on the corner and I want to cool down (lower the temperature in) the neighborhood. Before leaving, the State Security officials told me that they have my mobile phone, but that they would not give it to me at that time because it had been left in another place and they assured me that they would return it to me, along with the works that they took from my house.____________
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THE SIX CUBAN ACTIVISTS ARRESTED ON OBISPO STREET HAVE BEEN TRANSFERRED TO PRISONS The communicator and activist Esteban Rodríguez, together with the artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara. (Facebook) 14ymedio, Luz Escobar, Havana, 28 May 2021 — With last Wednesday’s transfer of the communicator and activist Esteban Rodríguez to the Valle Grande penitentiary, there are now six activists jailed awaiting trial for their participation, on April 30 in Obispo Street in Havana, in an act of solidarity with the artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara. The
information was confirmed this Friday to _14ymedio_ by Rodríguez’s wife, Zuleidis Cepero. That same day the independent journalist Mary Karla Ares was also transferred to the Guatao prison,
according to her mother, Marisol González, speaking to this newspaper. The authorities accuse the peaceful protesters of the crimes of public disorder and resistance, which, according to the Cubalex Legal Information Center, can mean sentences “from three months to five years of deprivation ofliberty.”
In addition to Ares and Rodríguez, the activists transferred to prisons include Thais Mailén Franco, Inti Soto Romero, Yuisán Cancio Vera and Luis Ángel Cuza. Last week Amnesty International called for the immediate release of these protesters and emphasized Ares, who broadcast the protest live on Facebook. For his part, rapper Maykel _Osorbo_ Castillo, who was arrested at his home on May 18, remains unaccounted for. In response to a _habeas corpus_ petition filed in his favor, it was only known that the artist is in provisional prison accused of “disobedience, resistance and contempt,” but the place where he is being held remains unknown._ continue reading_ In response to this situation, on Friday the United Nations Committee Against Forced Disappearances asked the Cuban Government for news of Osorbo’s whereabouts. “The Committee requires the urgent action of the State to adopt all the necessary measures to search and locate Mr. Maykel Castillo Pérez and protect his life and personal integrity, in accordance with its conventional obligations,” said the organism of the UN in response to a complaintfrom
the NGO Cuban Prisoners Defenders (CPD). The UN letter asks Havana to “inform the relatives of Mr. Castillo Pérez about the place of his deprivation of liberty, as well as the charges against him,” and, appealing to the Convention for the Protection of All People Against Forced Disappearances, also asks that “he can communicate with his family, a lawyer or any other person of his choice and receive their visit.” The demand is addressed to the Cuban ambassador in Geneva and gives the government of the island until June 11 to respond to their “concerns and recommendations.” In recent weeks, _Osorbo_ has been subjected to an intense police siege and has been detained without reason on several occasions. The 37-year-old artist, together with Yotuel Romero, Gente de Zona, Descemer Bueno and El Funky, composed the song_Patria
y Vida,_
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has exceeded five million views on YouTube and has become an anthem for the opposition both within and off theisland.
This Thursday, CPD launched a manifesto in support of the artists participating in the song _Patria y Vida_ — who have been besieged by the Cuban Government in recent weeks — in which they ask for an end to the repression. The demand emphasizes the critical situation in Otero Alcántara, who has been in solitary confinement at the Calixto García hospital inHavana for 26 days.
Several European Parliament Deputies also signed a letter requesting that a Delegation of the European Union (EU) visit Otero Alcántara in the hospital. The letter, written by Dita Charanzová, vice-president of the European Parliament, is addressed to Josep Borrell, high representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. Prisoners Defenders, based in Madrid, also notes the case of the detainees from the Obispo Street protest and of Eliexer Márquez _El Funky,_ who was also detained for a few hours, on May 18, and subjected to “a precautionary measure that prevents him from leavinghis home freely.”
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“SIGNATURES ARE NOT PATRIMONY,” INSISTS THE MANAGER OF LABODEGUITA DEL MEDIO
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Bodeguita del Medio, which is sold to tourists as “the cradle of The Mojito,” is located on Empedrado Street, a privileged place in Cuba’s capital city. (14ymedio) 14ymedio, Luz Escobar, 26 May 2021 — The image of La Bodeguita del Mediowithout the
thousands of signatures on its walls, which were part of its character, surprised locals and strangers. A few days ago, Robin Pedraja, creative director of the art magazine _Vistar_, shared photographs of the restoration of the premises on social networks and wondered who had the idea to erase “all that patrimony.” Many customers showed their rejection of a work that, according to various opinions, has resulted in the iconic place losing part of itsidentity.
“The signatures are not patrimony,” disagrees José Miguel Pumarada Fernández, manager of the premises, in an interview with _14ymedio_. The official maintains that the premises have already undergone three renovations and argues that this intervention was necessary, due to the poor condition of the place. “There were leaks everywhere, customers were eating and water was dripping on the tables, there was a lot of dampness. Paintings were falling off the walls because the plaster was decayed, the dampness was high and this was part of the complaints from customers who visited the establishment,” he says._ continue reading_ _“THERE WERE LEAKS EVERYWHERE, CUSTOMERS WERE EATING AND WATER WAS DRIPPING ON THE TABLES, THERE WAS A LOT OF DAMPNESS. __PAINTINGS WERE FALLING FROM THE WALLS BECAUSE THE PLASTER WAS DECAYED”_ Pumarada explains that three years ago the moment to start the repairs was expected, preserving everything that is considered a patrimony asset, including museum objects. “The signature book, all the framed photos – dating from the 40’s and 50’s – the house structure and its architecture, the wood, all of this was respected.” The manager, who has been in charge of the emblematic place for seven years, adds that the City Historian’s Office door was the first one they knocked on to start the work, and although for no apparent reason he (the Historian) did not oversee the work, they have “all levels of approval” of the Monuments Commission. However, a specialist of the Master Plan of the Office of the City Historian consulted by this newspaper affirms that he was not aware of the remodeling, but considers the elimination of the signatures “regrettable and a violation” and defends that such interventions should be controlled. “If they erased everything, it’s terrible. It’s an iconic place, it’s not just any tavern.” _SALOMÉ GARCÍA, A GRADUATE OF PLASTIC ARTS FROM THE HIGHER INSTITUTE OF ART, CONSIDERS THAT THIS INTERVENTION IS PART OF “THE ICONOCLASTIC OFFENSIVE OF THE CUBAN STATE” AGAINST PATRIMONY_ Salomé García, a graduate of Plastic Arts from the Higher Institute of Art, considers that this intervention is part of “the iconoclastic offensive of the Cuban State” against patrimony. “This is a location of State/public property, and of high patrimonial value. The contracts for these interventions (and for many others) should be public tenders. In addition, these are interventions that should be covered in the press due to their relevance, that way, misrepresentations would be avoided,” adds the specialist, who is currently completing a Master’s Degree in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Assets at the Polytechnic University ofValencia.
It is not the first time that La Bodeguita del Medio has remodeled its interior. In 1997, there was a physical attack against the facility, along with other tourist places such as the hotels Tritón, Chateau Miramar and the Copacabana, and part of it had to be restored and its walls painted, recalls Pumarada, who stresses that this establishment has been in operation for 78 years. This year’s repair was necessary, he insists, because the walls had several cracks that needed to be sealed, in addition to adding strength and security. “We used the same color paint as before and everything else remained intact.” Currently, and complying with the rules to control the pandemic, the La Bodeguita del Medio Bar remains closed, although it keeps open “a little store” on one side of the premises where food is sold. _“ANY BITE FROM A SEEDY INN IS BETTER THAN THESE. I WAS HOPING THEY WERE OF HIGHER QUALITY SINCE THIS PLACE IS WHAT IT IS, BUT IT IS A SANDWICH FROM A COMMUNITY DINING ROOM”_ “The only thing they are selling are ham sandwiches at 25 pesos each,” a local resident told _14ymedio_. “But they don’t have enough, only 30 loaves. According to what some workers said, whatever is in the inventory is sold,” says the Havana resident who decided to buy four sandwiches and ended up outraged. “Any bite from a seedy inn is better than these. I was hoping they were of higher quality since this place is what it is, but it is a bite from a communitydining room.”
La Bodeguita del Medio, which is sold to tourists as “the cradle of The Mojito,” is located on Empedrado Street, a privileged place in the capital, a few steps from the Plaza de la Catedral, in Old Havana. This area belongs to the Historic Center, and in 1982 it was declared a World Heritage Site by Unesco. The property had long since lost the best it had: to become a place for the national bohemian, for the regulars of the patio. Since it was dollarized and became a place with fast food for tourists, it lost its most important asset, and it was not its signatures, but its identity,its hallmark.
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Translator: Norma Whiting CUBAN AUTHORITIES ABANDON SANTIAGO DE CUBA TO ITS FATEThe
disastrous hygienic-sanitary situation that Santiago de Cuba is going through reflects the inability of the authorities to solve basic problems. (Alberto Hernández)14ymedio, Alberto
Hernández, Santiago de Cuba, 30 May 2021 — Santiago de Cuba, known for its carnivals, its suffocating heat and the hospitality of its people, today presents a bleak panorama. The city is depressed by hunger caused by the shortages of all kinds of food, the diseases that are becoming more frequent every day due to the lack of medicines which have been missing for months, and now, as if that were not enough, the accumulation of all kinds of waste in its streets. The inhabitants of the city wonder what happened to the sound, sometimes annoying, of the bell that announced the arrival of the garbage trucks, after which everyone rushed to put out the waste stored in their houses. The trucks just vanished, as if by magic. Now, the waste is simply stuffed in sacks and dumped in the first corner, or hung from any tree, forming what is known as micro-dumps. The containers that were once, long ago, distributed throughout the city, simply disappeared and are now an endangeredspecies.
Given the worrying situation and the daily criticism of the population, the Government, advised by the directors of the public company Servicios Comunales, which is in charge of cleaning the city, explain that the main problem is the breakdown of the waste collection trucks (together with the lack of fuel, tires, batteries, various spare parts and endless excuses). But, how is it possible that individuals keep their vehicles – dating from the 40s or 50s – in good condition and state companies, with all the tight control of resources, cannot guarantee that a fleet of a few dozen trucks will remain in operation? When it is wanted, it is resolved, and when it is not, a good justification is sought, as the saying goes._ continuereading_
Comunales, taking the situation into account, has supposedly hired some 325 animal-drawn carts to sanitize the city and thus compensate for the lack of trucks. I say supposedly because, if those 325 wagons were working every day, we would not have that chaotic panorama now presenting in the city.The
inhabitants of the city wonder what happened to the sound, sometimes annoying, of the bell that announced the arrival of the garbage trucks. (Alberto Hernández) To top it all, there are now record levels of Covid-19 cases in the city, and hundreds of micro-dumps on any corner complicate the situation. The coronavirus has joined other pests that plague the Santiago population and that are closely related to poor hygiene, such as scabies, lice, and dengue fever, the latter transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito that has as a breeding ground the many open airwaste dump.
In addition, the sewers are clogged and, instead of evacuating wastewater, they expel it to the public thoroughfare, as is frequently observed in the lowest points of Santiago de Cuba. Ignoring hygienic risks, more and more people “dive” into landfills looking for any of the sorts of things that will help them survive. Driven by hunger and despair, many inhabitants even take refuge in garbage dumps. The disastrous hygienic-sanitary situation that Santiago de Cuba is going through reflects the inability of the authorities to solve the basic problems of Cuba’s second city. The capital of the East is today the shadow of what it once was.____________
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STUBBORNNESS AND INEFFICIENCY GO HAND IN HAND IN THE CUBAN LEADERSHIP“My
generation already has a couple deep material wounds, to its cost.”(14ymedio)
14ymedio, Yoani Sanchez, Generation Y, Havana, 29 May 2021 — A few days ago in the middle of the night they removed all the light bulbs that illuminated the corridor on the 14th floor where I live in Havana; a friend’s cat was stolen and shortly afterward she found the remains of what was evidently the sacrifice and feast that some neighbors made with her pet; in a line to buy frozen chicken, the crowd went wild as the door was opened and trampled on two old women who fell in the stampede. All these scenes and many others have returned to populate the lives of Cubans, as they once did during the crisis of the 1990s that, in an excess of putting makeup on the language, the regime dubbed “The Special Period .” For those who were born in this century, the current social and economic disaster is the most serious of their lives, but my generation already has a couple of these deep material wounds, to its cost, while for my parents’ generation we must add the rigors suffered in the 70s. The return of these vignettes of misery is part of a stubborn cycle that has touched the existence of everyone on this Island. Faced with so much repetition, some honest statesmen concerned about the country’s well-being would have redirection the national course, abandoned the practices that led to constant scarcities suffered by the population, or ceded their positions to more capable executives. But stubbornness and inefficiencygo hand
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A few years ago, an analyst and writer asked an interesting question during a conference held at a study center in the capital: “How many more times must the implementation of Marxist economic ideas fail to conclude that failure is it inherent in the model?” If we apply that doubt to Castroism, then it is worth asking how many more crises will Cubans have to suffer so that officials understand that the system does not work? How many “special periods” must accumulate for the leaders of the Communist Party to recognize their inability to provide us with prosperity and freedom? Yesterday I saw a girl break a chocolate cookie in two. “I’m going to eat half today and save the other for tomorrow for breakfast,” she said. My eyes watered. It reminded me of a scrawny and hungry teenager in a very long line to buy some little chicks that we had to raise in our apartment in the San Leopoldo neighborhood. After an hours-long line, plus blows and shoves, that young woman returned home with some tiny yellow animals, none of which survived her inexperience in raising poultry or lack of food. Of those images from the 90s there are some we have yet to see. I
hope they do not arrive: The rafts loaded on shoulders crossing the streets heading towards Havana’s Malecón; the friend who embarked on one and was never heard from again; the kerosene-flavored pizza that was the only food for a couple of days; the Numantine leader asking us for more sacrifices from the dais. How much longer must a people endure to conclude that conformity is inherent in theircharacter?
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CUBAN JOURNALIST MARY KARLA ARES IS TRANSFERRED TO GUATAO PRISON INARTEMISA
Independent Cuban Reporter Mary Karla Ares, 28, is a contributor to Amanecer Habanero. (Iclep) 14ymedio, Havana, May 26, 2021 — Independent Cuban reporter Mary Karla Ares, arrested at the demonstration on Obispo Street last April 30,
was transferred this Wednesday to the Guatao women’s penitentiary, in the municipality of Bauta, Artemisa, according to her mother, Marisol González, speaking to _14ymedio_. González, who was able to visit her daughter yesterday, related details of the visit to this newspaper. “Before going in, the officers lectured me and my husband not to hang around with people opposing the government or counterrevolutionaries paid by the United States,” she explains. She goes on to say that they tried to intimidate them by telling them that they knew that Mary Karla received recharges from abroad and money from the United States. “At that moment we let it slide, but it would have been good if we would have asked them who benefits fromthose recharges
,” says the
mother, ironically referring to the telecommunications monopoly of ETECSA._ continue reading_ After the talks, González and her husband reproached the police because “they were treating those kids like criminals… She is not a criminal as they say, and it unfair because they are using them as an example for the others,” declared Ares’s mother. According to González, since the demonstration on April 30 on the centrally located Obispo Street in Havana, her daughter spent all this time detained in the unit of 7th and 62, Playa Municipality, until she was transferred this Tuesday to Villa Marista, the General Headquarters of the State Security, for the visit. Ares was arrested along with other activists when she was demanding the end of the siege around Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara’s house, who remained on hunger and thirst strike. According to the authorities, the demonstrators are under penal proceedings accused of “public disturbance” and “resistance.” Relatives of the young lady had requested a change of charges so that Ares could be released on bail awaiting trial; however, it was refused, as was an appeal to Habeas Corpus that had been denied inearly May.
The Committee to Protect Journalists told the Cuban authorities that they should immediately release Mary Karla Ares and allow the press to inform freely. The 28-year-old reporter is a contributor to Amanecer Habanero (Havana Dawn), a community communication medium associated with the Cuban Institute for the Freedom of Expression and the Press. Last week, Amnesty International (AI) also requested the immediate release of the activists detained on April 30. This request emphasized Ares, who broadcast the demonstration live on Facebook. Thais Mailen Franco Benítez was also arrested and taken to the Gatao penitentiary; Inti Sorto Romero is in Guanajay prison; and Yuisan Cancio Vera was transferred to the provincial penitentiary of Pinar del Rio, according to the Cubalex Legal Information Center *, a non-profit legal aid organization. _*Translator’s note: For an earlier interview with the founder of Cubalex, Laritza Diversent, see here._
_Translated by Francy Perez_____________
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Translator: Francy Perez Perdomo THE CUBAN REGIME IS NOT AFRAID OF ANY SONG The artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, at one point in the video clip of the song ‘Patria y Vida’. (Screen capture) 14ymedio, Yaiza Santos, Madrid, 27 May 2021 — The desperate war of songsunleashed by
the Cuban Government after the release of the song _Patria y Vida,_ which
since February has added more than five million views on YouTube and which immediately became anopposition
slogan
inside and outside the Island, has gone from pathos to perversity with the theme that celebrates the sixtieth anniversary of the Ministry of the Interior(Minint), released this Tuesday.
The same ministry that, through State Security, the National Revolutionary Police and other undercover agents, besieges activists, independent journalists and any citizen who makes public a minimum dissent against the communist regime, the _Orwellian_ Minint itself, becomes a pop singer and presents _Cuba es cierta (Cuba is True)._ According to the agency itself in a statement , Lieutenant Colonel Dixan Marrero Jorge, author of the lyrics, won a contest launched at the end of 2020 as an “opportunity for the strong movement of amateur artists” within the agency. The jury was chaired by Israel Rojas, a member of the Buena Fe duo, who also orchestrated the song and who, in March, had already issued an official song on Cuban vaccines, with the immense merit of fitting “bulb,, “container” and “dose” in something like a light song ._ continue reading_ The lyrics of the lieutenant colonel, in fact, have verses borrowed from that song, such as the “call to slaughter” of the chorus (“Cuba is true, as true as the call to slaughter”). The beginning of the song is slow, like the guitar plucking of _Patria y Vida_ before Randy Malcom, from Gente de Zona, starts: “You are my siren song because with your voice my sorrows go away.” And with the insistence on ‘patria o muerte’ (homeland or death) taking a detour (“knee on the ground until the last breath”), the song makes a spurious use of the axes of the theme of Yotuel Romero and company: “life”, “hope” and “freedom.” Do not strain, good grief, the pageant costume. The Ministry of the Interior has no need for a song. The Ministry of the Interior forcibly removed from his home the artist Luis ManuelOtero Alcántara
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who appears in the video clip for _Patria y Vida_ wrapped in the flag hanging from the headquarters of the San Isidro Movement in November — and has held him for 25 days, without explanations, in a psychiatric ward of the Calixto García Hospital in Havana. The Ministry of the Interior has disappeared Maykel ’ElOsorbo’ Castillo
after arresting him accused of false crimes. The Ministry of the Interior has threatened Eliexer_El
Funky _
Márquez
_ _in
home confinement_._The Ministry of the Interior has five peaceful protesters in prison for shouting “homeland and life”on
Obispo Street
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All the technological and weapons display that appears in the clip of _Cuba is True,_ the modern patrols, the immaculate uniforms, the fresh agents, it is not necessary. Cubans know well what works on their island, the only thing greased and fed for 62 years: repression. And yet the Ministry of the Interior makes a song. It is something evil. But at the same time, it shows a weakness: it cannot compose anything that comes close to _Homeland and Life. _Nothing that excites the people who lie so much in vain and who, in addition, collect in their melody the rhythm of the times, from La Marseillaiseto ___Yo vengo a
ofrecer mi corazón
_, passing through _Vapensiero
__, __Grândola, vila morena _ and _Libertad sin ira __. _All of them, hymns of a transition, of an imminent change. Think of the prickling skin when Alexander Delgado bursts in with his ragged voice: “It’s over.” Of _Cuba is True,_ one can only tremble, and of terror, the verse “I am the eyes of the dawn.” The Ministry of the Interior has lost the war of the songs. What was that like? “A beginning, right from the bottom of a cave, can do more than anarmy.”
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CUBA ARCHIVE ACCUSES STATE OF USING THERAPIES AND DRUGS TO PUNISHOPPONENTS
Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara in one of the latest videos released bythe State.
14ymedio, Havana, 26 May 2021 — The organization Archivo Cuba (Cuba Archive) has expressed concern for the mental health of Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, who has been in the Calixto García hospital for 24 days without communication with his friends, and has published a call for action. The
NGO accuses the Cuban regime of a long history of psychiatric abuse and asks the World Association of Psychiatry to expel Cuba, and also calls for the medical and psychiatric associations of democratic countries to investigate and denounce this type of abuse. The organization, based in Miami, presents information from different sources that maintain that Alcántara is being drugged or subjected to electroconvulsive therapy based on the images that the Government has been publishing of the artist in the hospital with the intention of discrediting him. The images show the physical and mental deterioration of the opponent. Among the initiatives proposed by Cuba Archive is also the invitation to write to Miguel Díaz-Canel and ask the international press to exert pressure in favor of the opponent. In addition, they demand that democratic countries insist on an independent medical evaluation of the artist and that he be released from the hospital if he is healthy, that communication with his loved ones be reestablished, that bilateral relations be conditioned on respect for human rights. They also demand the release of rapper Denis Solis and those imprisoned after the Obispo street protest._
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The organization cites the aspect of mental health, and in support of this its statement is accompanied by a reportin
which it accuses the Cuban State of confining healthy people for political reasons and applying substances and therapies to them for the purpose of torture, to obtain information, or simply to punishthem.
According to the document, Dr. Eduardo Prida, who was a psychologist for the Ministry of the Interior and the Armed Forces of Cuba, has reported on the links between these torture systems and the Soviet regime, thanks to the training of Cuban officers in Lubyanka building (headquarters of the KGB in Moscow) and in the Academy of the Ministry of the Interior, although mental repression in Russia was already in use in the tsarist era. Documents in the archives of the German political police give an account, as late as 1981, of the Cuban request for a list of 16 drugs designed to psychologically destabilize prisoners who had committed crimes against state security, including cocaine, LSD, methadone and various barbiturates. In a letter to the Stasi, Cuban Colonel Lorenzo Hernando Caldeiro asks “to exchange opinions and experiences in psychology” to “use these branches of science in the fight against the enemy” and confirms an agreement to send psychologists from the island to various institutions in Germany as part of the 1988 “Exchange Work Plan.” The text highlights that, in 1988, Amnesty International was able to visit the Carbó Serviá pavilion of the Psychiatric Hospital of Havana, Mazorra, to investigate complaints that had arisen and one of the officials who received the NGO representatives denied the existence of a second pavilion and denied them entrance to it, although it was suspected that this place was the one with the worstconditions.
Armando Lago, co-founder of Archivo Cuba, is co-author of the book _The Politics of Psychiatry in Revolutionary Cuba_, which includes numerous testimonies of psychiatric torture added to the unsanitary conditions and physical abuse for people who were detained simply for painting graffiti, trying to leave of the Island, exchanging foreign currency, shouting against the Government orkilling a cow
,
among other acts.
In the early 1990s, a senior executive at a major US pharmaceutical company revealed to the director of Archivo Cuba that his company stopped exporting drugs to Cuba after realizing that some were being used for psychiatric torture. The report also reviews conditions in Mazorra, where there are around 2,500 patients. In January 2010, at least 26 died of cold in thisinstitution
,
a fact that was known by human rights defenders who raised the alarm and managed to release images taken in the morgue that showed the terrible condition of the inmates who had died. Eriberto Mederos, known as “the nurse” of Mazorra, was convicted in 2002 by a federal jury in Miami of lying on his citizenship application by concealing his participation in the torture of political dissidents with electric shocks when he worked as a stretcher-bearer at this hospital. Lago’s book describes 31 cases of dissidents held in psychiatric institutions for a period of 1 day and up to 5 years. A year later, the number had increased by eight. In addition, cases of minors are also documented, including violations, or or administering drugs that inhibit an individual’s will. The report also includes the suspicions of some prisoners and relatives who maintain that the food or drink they were given was contaminated with some substance, or that they had become ill for no apparent reason after passing through these medical centers. The text concludes with the analysis of several prisoners who have gone through experiences of this kind at less distant dates, such as the alleged suicide of Ángel Tomás Quiñones González in 1990 at the Mazorra Psychiatric Hospital or that of Leandro Hidalgo Pupo, 20 years old, a talented math student who was admitted to the same center after shouting “Down with Fidel” during an internationally televised boxing match. Since that date there has been no news of him. Much more recent is the internment of Daniel Llorente, known as “the man with the flag” after he appeared with the American banner in the May 1 parade in front of Raúl Castro shouting “Freedom for all.” In Mazorra he remained confined for eleven months and in 2018 it was certified that he did not suffer from any mental illness. A year later, he was forcibly deported to Guyana with the threat of being “disappeared”if he returned.
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