VOICES 9 FOR FRIDAY 29TH…!!! / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo
VOCES 9 PA´L VIERNES 29…!!!, originally uploaded by orlandoluispardolazo. VOICES, THE FREE-LANCE MAGAZINE REACHES ITS 1ST YEAR ANNIVERSARY…!!! vocescuba.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/voces8.pdf...
View ArticleAMEN TO AMY… / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo
AMEN TO AMY…, originally uploaded by orlandoluispardolazo. Goodbye, Dear Amy. We had seen coming for a while that there would be no rehab for you. Only the good die young. The gods’ favorites. They...
View ArticleGET ON IT, DAMN IT…! / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo
TO MORE BLOCKADE, MORE SOCIALISM Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo Let yumas [Americans] do and undo in Yuma [America] as they democratically please. It would be too much already if from Cuba, we Cubans...
View ArticleWork Table of Madrid Now…! / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo
Work Table of Madrid now….!,originally uploaded by orlandoluispardolazo. Saturday July 9th, the second Work Table will be celebrated in Madrid. On the topic The Emerging Civil Society, we will have a...
View ArticleREV IN PEACE… / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo
FOR WHOM THE IBERIA TOLLS…? Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo History repeats itself. Once as comedy and another time as a black hole, abyss of pre-capitalist post-modernity that is inhabited in Cuba. Its name...
View ArticleBOOKONEANDO… / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo
THE NIGHT OF THE BOOKS Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo That propagandist title has always seemed a little terrifying to me: The Night of the Books… It sounds as if the sun had set for books, as if brightness...
View ArticleMONEY IS A HIT.. (AND A HASHTAG!) / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo
Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo The dictatorship of the market. I have heard the phrase on countless occasions, in boring meetings of this, that or the other state institution. The market mutilates and kills...
View ArticleResponse of Laritza Diversent to Two Readers / Laritza Diversent
In Cuba, my unknown homeland, published on January 3rd, 2010, a reader who signed under the name of Philipp, and who, because of the flag shown, must live in Germany, left the following comment on...
View ArticleWWWAITING FOR THE WWWORMS / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo
THE DAWN* OF WAITING Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo José Lezama Lima waited for the death of his mother before feeling guilt-free enough to publish the scandalous Paradiso. Virgilio Piñera waited to amass 18...
View ArticleParty Prepares Itself for Next Elections / Laritza Diversent
The Communist Party of Cuba works arduously to realize a full identity between its members and those of the government, and to guarantee that its politics are approved unanimously in the National...
View Article(No Title) / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo
LOVE AT FIRST STAGE Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo The homeland’s Sunday devastates you, ravages you, tears you to shreds of a Cuban without illusions. Then you take your Canon and rush into a theater. In the...
View ArticleScar Case / Rosa María Rodríguez Torrado
Dictatorships leave indelible scars that neither a psychiatrist nor the best plastic surgeon can repair. We Cubans, forced to ignore the definition or concept of a personal computer, organize ourselves...
View ArticleCENSORSHIP against Memories of Development in Tropical Cinema 2011 / Orlando...
CENSORSHIP against Memories of Development in Tropical Cinema 2011, Originally uploaded by orlandoluispardolazo. Translated by: Claudia D. December 8 2011 Tweet
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As I Write Dying / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo
The Revolution has maybe two or three weekends left. Then, before or after that bad metaphor which is the arrival of spring, we’ll be living in a full holocaust. The State will probably have to kill...
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A Silhouette of Light in the Midst of Shadows / Regis Iglesias
Regis Iglesias and Oswaldo Paya, prior to the 2003 Black Spring At 9 am I called tía Beba’s house. I was waiting to hear Efrén answer the phone as usual and update me on the early news of that March...
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