On October 18, a federal jury in Miami convicted American Javier Hernández of the crimes of boat theft, kidnapping, extortion and torture of migrants, including several Cubans, in addition to paying bribes to authorities. The accused, who will be sentenced on January 5, was part of a criminal group known as the Cuban Mafia, which … Read more
The family of the only fatality from the accident on October 12 in San Marcos (Guatemala) has identified her: she is Cuban and her name was Oryalis Cepeda. Her son, Dany Pérez, 16, was also traveling in the damaged vehicle, in which about 20 migrants were traveling. His aunt and sister of the deceased, Omayda … Read more
Luis Robles Elizastigui, known as “the young man with the banner” and imprisoned since December 2020 in the Combinado del Este prison, in Havana, has not yet received the change to a minimum security regime in the La Lima camp, in Guanabacoa, as the authorities promised at the end of August. In a publication On … Read more
The walls of Havana creak with the rain and the breeze of Idalia. While the radio predicts that everything is in order, the jets of water slip between the tiles and fall, relentless, skirting the walls. However, what worries Aurelia the most, 61 years old and fond of cooking, is what she is going to … Read more
While the Cuban Football Association was announcing the appointment of Yunielys Castillo, the “most outstanding graduate” of the Concacaf category C course, to lead the national team, midfielder Arichel Hernández gave the federations a setback by exposing his ” disagreement” and announce that he would no longer defend the Cuban flag. The bronze medalist at … Read more
José Luis Hernández is the most recent prisoner to commit suicide in a Cuban jail. His case made it known in his networks the legal organization Cubalex two days ago, but his death occurred on July 15, in the Kilo 5 y Medio prison, in Pinar del Río. According to Cubalex, the complaint was made … Read more
The Ministry of the Interior of the province of Guantánamo announced, in a brief statement, the arrest last Saturday of the assassins of the photographer Orlando Tamayo Guevara. The three detainees, whose identity has not been revealed by the authorities, were found in possession of money and two motorized electrical from the victim. Information, spread … Read more
For Cubans, “living under a bridge” means having fallen from grace and being mired in misery. However, the daily movement of merchants, buyers, dealers, pickpockets, drunkards and fortune seekers under the 100 and Boyeros bridge, in Havana, belies the old saying and makes that cadonga an anthill where everything, even prosperity, is for sale. It … Read more
I had read it in those covered books that passed from hand to hand in Cuba in the 1990s. Later, on our Island where censorship had tried all its forms, several videocassettes with some of his participation in foreign television programs slipped through. He had a way of speaking and arguing so different from the … Read more
On June 20, 2022, the Cuban Academy of Language (ACuL) issued a laconic message: the poet Roberto Méndez, who was to direct the institution until 2026, resigned his position “for health reasons.” His successor would be the essayist Jorge Fornet, then deputy director and one of the regime’s trusted men at Casa de las Américas. … Read more