Autor
Julio Antonio Fernández Estrada
Profesor titular. Licenciado en Derecho e Historia. Doctor en Ciencias Jurídicas.
The simple glance of a man who has been and still is a witness to the life of Cuban women. I’ve seen them, listened to them, read them.
Cuba floats on a pond. We are not adrift. In fact, aboard our raft of caña brava we crash against the walls of the basin of stagnant water in which the government has put us.
"Mabel Cuesta is a prestigious academic at the University of Houston. She is a poet, essayist, professor and activist for the salvation of the homeland, which she prefers to feel and understand as matria". An interview by Julio Antonio Fernández Estrada.
Jovann Silva treats his students like a Cuban teacher, with the self-assurance of Cuba. He is one of hundreds of thousands of Cubans who have had to make sharp turns in life to reinvent themselves in the new land of emigration.
There are many reasons why people leave Cuba. Also important among them is the political expression, launched in a resounding plebiscite, about the impossibility of trusting the political and economic institutions of the state.
Lawyer Julio Fernández Estrada reflects on the new term used by the Cuban government to describe the protests of July 11, 2021.
The only possible dream in Cuba right now, is of reconciliation based on justice, responsibility, a love for the diversity of our culture, political pluralism, acceptance of differences and criticism.
Only the Law, the District Attorney’s Office, and courts can enforce the Law. The rest is a dangerous use of mass frenzy; it activates the lowest passions, revenge and hatred.
“Understanding comes from talking things out.” This is what grandmothers say on balconies, in front of the TV, advising their grandchildren to be calm, understanding and tolerant of differences. Young people are no longer interested in cakes, just like our ovens, which haven’t seen cakes in a year. New generations haven’t been trained in the […]
Without justice freedom is meaningless. What beauty is there in not knowing what to grab on to? What beauty is there in watching force used by the powerful on the weak. In evidencing the discomfort of the oppressed and in observing disdainfully how that beast called hate is fed?
What relentless wind blew away most of the sweets made in Cuba? Now, our girls and boys, when they are lucky enough to taste a small sweet, it almost always comes from other countries. Those Cuban factories have forgotten the secret of movement and production.
A line in Cuba isn’t the same as a line anywhere else in the world. Lines in Cuba are commotions of desperate people with bloodshot and worried eyes, on the edge of their nerve to see if they will make it to the counter before everything runs out, or everything does run out and nothing is left.
Cuban bureaucracy needs to understand that TV doesn’t belong to them, that TV belongs to the people, and that it can’t be privatized, by constitutional order, which includes the State and its bureaucrats; it can’t be seized from the people.
The government’s economic measure, which allows household appliances and other items to be purchased in freely convertible currency, benefits a very small segment of the population. The rest will continue to wait for one euro in the countryside.
In Cuba the conception or philosophy has extended, that the enjoyment of the minutiae is harmful for the excellence of spirit and the disposition to resistance. Maybe that’s why the Cubans, although they do not stop longing for them, have become accustomed to do without products like raisins, butter, olive oil …
Autores
Julio Antonio Fernández Estrada
Profesor titular. Licenciado en Derecho e Historia. Doctor en Ciencias Jurídicas.
The simple glance of a man who has been and still is a witness to the life of Cuban women. I’ve seen them, listened to them, read them.
Jovann Silva treats his students like a Cuban teacher, with the self-assurance of Cuba. He is one of hundreds of thousands of Cubans who have had to make sharp turns in life to reinvent themselves in the new land of emigration.
The only possible dream in Cuba right now, is of reconciliation based on justice, responsibility, a love for the diversity of our culture, political pluralism, acceptance of differences and criticism.
Without justice freedom is meaningless. What beauty is there in not knowing what to grab on to? What beauty is there in watching force used by the powerful on the weak. In evidencing the discomfort of the oppressed and in observing disdainfully how that beast called hate is fed?
Cuban bureaucracy needs to understand that TV doesn’t belong to them, that TV belongs to the people, and that it can’t be privatized, by constitutional order, which includes the State and its bureaucrats; it can’t be seized from the people.
Cuba floats on a pond. We are not adrift. In fact, aboard our raft of caña brava we crash against the walls of the basin of stagnant water in which the government has put us.
There are many reasons why people leave Cuba. Also important among them is the political expression, launched in a resounding plebiscite, about the impossibility of trusting the political and economic institutions of the state.
Only the Law, the District Attorney’s Office, and courts can enforce the Law. The rest is a dangerous use of mass frenzy; it activates the lowest passions, revenge and hatred.
What relentless wind blew away most of the sweets made in Cuba? Now, our girls and boys, when they are lucky enough to taste a small sweet, it almost always comes from other countries. Those Cuban factories have forgotten the secret of movement and production.
The government’s economic measure, which allows household appliances and other items to be purchased in freely convertible currency, benefits a very small segment of the population. The rest will continue to wait for one euro in the countryside.
"Mabel Cuesta is a prestigious academic at the University of Houston. She is a poet, essayist, professor and activist for the salvation of the homeland, which she prefers to feel and understand as matria". An interview by Julio Antonio Fernández Estrada.
Lawyer Julio Fernández Estrada reflects on the new term used by the Cuban government to describe the protests of July 11, 2021.
“Understanding comes from talking things out.” This is what grandmothers say on balconies, in front of the TV, advising their grandchildren to be calm, understanding and tolerant of differences. Young people are no longer interested in cakes, just like our ovens, which haven’t seen cakes in a year. New generations haven’t been trained in the […]
A line in Cuba isn’t the same as a line anywhere else in the world. Lines in Cuba are commotions of desperate people with bloodshot and worried eyes, on the edge of their nerve to see if they will make it to the counter before everything runs out, or everything does run out and nothing is left.
In Cuba the conception or philosophy has extended, that the enjoyment of the minutiae is harmful for the excellence of spirit and the disposition to resistance. Maybe that’s why the Cubans, although they do not stop longing for them, have become accustomed to do without products like raisins, butter, olive oil …
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