Coppelia, the Cathedral of Ice Cream, Is Melting
By Manuel Diaz Mons, from Cubanet.org When it first opened, it offered twenty-six flavors. Now Cuba’s most famous...
Category: Society
UN Human Rights Chief urges Cuba to halt harassment of civil society activists
Originally published in http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/Media.aspx GENEVA (15 December 2015) — The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al...
Paris, Always Paris!
By Jose M. Presol Why Paris? It’s no coincidence. Already by 1814-1815 the struggles between France and, I think...
Refugees
Somos+, Javier Martinez, DATE — According to the Spanish newspaper El Pais, from its Facebook page, “The Garage of...
The butterfly is alive….and it is coming
by Jose Manuel Presol On October 10th of 1868, at the Demajagua sugar mill near Manzanillo, a bell tolled...
Cuba: A Needed Reconciliation
By Jorge Ros There’s been a lot of talk about how to achieve a national reconciliation. I believe this...
Happy on the Outside but Worried on the Inside
Somos+, Javier Martinez Delgado Since 1959, when the Castro brothers hijacked a triumphant revolution that was thought to be...
El Sexto is Free!
by José Manuel Presol Yesterday we were thrilled to hear the news. Several media outlets have been in touch...
Interview with Tania Bruguera by Joan Antoni Guerror Vall
Diario de Cuba, Joan Antoni Guerrero Vall, 4 October 2015 — After being held in the country for eight...
San Antonio de los Baños in Uncertainty
by Alexander Perez Rodriguez SOMOS+, Alexander Perez Rodriguez, DATE — With the new relations between the U.S. and...