By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on December 23, 2021
Georgina Herrera
Actually, there are not two protagonists in the documentary Charo and Georgina, otra vez frente al espejo, by filmmaker Rebeca Chávez, which has just premiered at the Havana International Film Festival. There are three women in dialogue, one of them behind the camera. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on December 10, 2021
Cubans respond to N15 provocations. photo: Abel Padron Padilla
The November 15 provocation in Cuba failed. That is not coming from the communist newspaper Granma, but by the promoters and sponsors of the march that did not happen. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde November 25, 2021
Cuban youth honor Fidel on the 5th anniversary of his passing. photo: Jose Manuel Correa
Fidel Castro died five years ago, but I feel like decades have passed in Cuba since November 25, 2016. Donald Trump arrived and passed slowly with his string of sanctions that have felt worse than ever because of the pandemic. Then came Joe Biden with his faint-hearted court, reeling us each day with veiled or direct threats, without daring to fulfill his timid campaign promises. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on November 13, 2021
Marching in support of the revolution, photo: Bill Hackwell
On September 20, letters began to arrive at eight Cuban municipal or provincial government headquarters announcing the holding of “peaceful” marches on November 15 by a group called Archipiélago. The motivation for these marches was a call for change. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on October 28, 2021
photo: RT
The piggy bank rang again. Less than a month ago, in September 2021, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) awarded 6 million 669 thousand dollars in grants for projects aimed at “regime change” in Cuba, a euphemism to avoid saying “direct intervention by a foreign power”. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on October 16, 2021
Marta Rojas
Some thirty years ago, when I was starting my journalism classes in Havana, she told the students who listened to her talk about the profession: Journalists are people who tell people what happens to people. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on September 17, 2021
all of us in defense of Cuba, photo: Prensa Latina
It would have to be a Mexican who explained to us in the most eloquent way what an island is. In La ruta de Hernán Cortés, Fernando Benítez says that “an island is a clearly delimited reality, an invitation to isolation and a way to escape from the known world. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on September 4, 2021
photo: Bill Hackwell
With the money she earns cleaning houses in the morning and an office at night, Virgen Elena Pupo, a 47-year-old Cuban migrant, has managed to raise her family in Washington, D.C., but has not been able to help her parents in Holguín, Cuba. She is separated from her parents by more than 1,246 miles. (more…)