[Translation] Mexican Interview with Cuban Dissident 4 Hours After Liberation
I’m blown away by the pace of journalism these days – but also, more importantly, the quality. In Mexico I used to surf a lot of news sites to try to get a grasp of what was going on in the country: El Universal, La Jornada, Milenio, Proceso, Nexos, The...
Cuba is a metaphor, not a country
Cafe La Habana, where according to legend, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, and a group of Cuban exiles planned the Cuban Revolution to take down the Batista Dictatorship. It was also a favorite hangout of exiled Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño. Over an Ethiopian dinner with...
Internet Censorship and Freedom of Expression in Latin America
The first two posts of this series on freedom of expression and the internet in Latin America aim at providing 1) basic context around issues of internet governance, and 2) a detailed look at intermediary liability as a mechanism that restricts innovation and limits...![[Challenge] Hackers for Cuba](https://i0.wp.com/el-oso.net/blog/wp-content/themes/oso/images/bottom_mark.gif?w=425)
[Challenge] Hackers for Cuba
Raul Castro has made some social reforms since taking over as Cuba’s president. Most notably, over 7,400 mobile phone contracts were signed in just 10 days since restrictions were eased by the regime in April. (“The number of new mobile phone contracts is...Chronicle of the City of Havana
Traveling up and down the West Coast in August, friends, family, and strangers solicited my thoughts on Cuba. “It’s a wonderful country,” I tell them, “and if you’re willing to wait in line for half an hour or so, you can get a...Blogger Remains Accessible in Cuba
An article by José Daniel Fierro in the webzine, Rebelión suggesting that Google was blocking their Blogger service to Cuban internet users has been getting lots of love around the Spanish-speaking blogosphere, most notably by Eduardo Arcos, Manuel...
Pitching Outside the Strike Zone, Part Vg
September 23, 2003 Cienfuegos, Cuba This morning, after breakfast as I was on my way out, the husband of the Casa called me over to introduce me to some friends, a couple, the husband of whom is a philosophy professor. We promised to talk later tonight and so on the...
Pitching Outside the Strike Zone, Part Vf
September 22 12:30 p.m. Viazul Bus Station Habana, Cuba L. Althusser makes a good point – while the sense of community in socialism is so much greater, the methods of production alienate the worker from the object being produced. In the United States designers,...
Pitching Outside the Strike Zone, Part Ve
September 20, 2003 El Jardin del Oriente Habana Vieja, Cuba "Absolute ideas must take relative forms if they are not to fail because of an error in form. Freedom, to be viable, has to be sincere and complete. If a republic refuses to open its arms to all, and...Latest Photos
