By José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez on September 11, 2021
Vigil in honor of the Victims of Terrorism against Cuba, Revolution Square, October 5, 2016. Photo: Ismael Francisco / Cubadebate
This September 11, people around the world will remember the victims of the attacks on the Twin Towers in New York. More than 3,000 lives were lost, many of them Cuban. Their families are still reeling from their loss and, in some cases, have not even been able to recover the remains of their loved ones. (more…)
By José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez on September 7, 2021
A man with alcohol on his breath enters a place where students are gathering and starts beating one of the young men. He demands over and over again that he acknowledge paternity of the child his daughter is carrying. The young man is beaten so badly that he is almost exhausted. When the offended assailant returns home, he discovers that the pregnancy test he found in his daughter’s room was not hers, but a neighbor’s. (more…)
By José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez on June 10, 2021
Foto: Michael Ciaglo
Several articles have appeared in the US press in mid-2021 citing the impact of the “Cuban vote” as a likely reason why the Joe Biden administration has not yet corrected the setbacks in bilateral relations with Cuba under the previous administration. (more…)
By José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez on May 31, 2021
Aldo López Gavilán. Foto: Archivo
From early May 2021 to the first days of June, the third anniversary of the Festival Artes de Cuba (Arts of Cuba Festival) will be celebrated at the Kennedy Center[1], the most important cultural institution in the US capital. During those days in 2018, a delegation of 427 artists, intellectuals, and promoters of Cuban culture took part in a complex program of presentations ranging from the visual arts and cinema to theater and ballet. More than 100 of those Cubans traveled to Washington, D.C., from their current places of residence outside the island. (more…)