While this Sunday in Libya the final hours of the Gaddafi dictatorship transpired, the official newspaper Juventud Rebelde, in an article published on page 7, affirmed, citing a Telesur report, “The Libyan government denied the alleged departure of Muammar al-Gaddafi.” According to this newspaper, echoing a Gaddafi’s spokesman, Ibrahim Mussa, such fabrications were part of [...]
Archive for August, 2011
The “Transparency” Proposed by the General
Posted in Sin evasion on August 26, 2011 |
Response to Elaine’s Irritation
Posted in Sin evasion on August 22, 2011 |
Just as expected, the article I published in number 9 of the magazine Voces which I reposted in this blog caused stinging and irritation in more than one website, which always makes me feel good. Among those affected by the stings, blogger Elaine Díaz seems to honor me with her attention in a particular way. [...]
Cuban Blogosphere: Stings and Irritations of the Internet in Cuba
Posted in Sin evasion on August 11, 2011 |
(Work originally published in number 9, Voices magazine) Several weeks ago an interview appeared in the virtual space cubaencuentro.com. The two-part interview was conducted by Luis Manuel García Méndez, and the person interviewed was the young American scholar Ted Henken. Titled “Mapping Blogolandia” (May 2011), Henken traces, with remarkable objectivity, his map of the Cuban [...]
With Regards to the Theory of Rescuing Socialism
Posted in Sin evasion on August 9, 2011 |
(Originally published in the Diario de Cuba dated August 3rd, 2011) Picture taken from Diario de Cuba The last five years in Cuba have been fruitful in the theoretical development of solutions to the country’s severe problems, mainly those related to the ills of the economy and other endemic viruses, an endless list including bureaucracy [...]
A Proposal from the Possible
Posted in Sin evasion on August 6, 2011 |
Editorial # 3-2011 of the magazine Espacio Laical (“The Challenge of Being Bold”; www.espaciolaical.net) is one of those essays to which one is grateful because of its timeliness, relevance, balance and respectfulness, but above all, because it contains within itself the quality–rare in our context–to overcome the temptation of the catharsis and the truths of [...]

