Clasificado en General a las Jul 29th, 2009 479 Comentarios »
Image: Bird Headed Monster by Bosch
At lunchtime on July 8, we, the prisoners of Sections 3, 4 and 5 reported to the dining room of the prison where we were met by Unit Chief Orlando Major Fernández Fernández and Michael Vesalles, Kitchen Chief, here at Canaleta in Ciego de Ávila, where they admit that the [...]
Clasificado en General a las Jul 27th, 2009 36 Comentarios »
Image: Luis Trapaga
In February of this year, the warden of Canaleta Prison in the province of Ciego de Ávila stopped allowing us to wear our own clothes and introduced a uniform that all prisoners are required to wear, consisting of two undershirts, one pair of shorts and one pair of pants. Several weeks later, a [...]
Clasificado en General a las Jul 26th, 2009 175 Comentarios »
Perhaps this title brings hope to those set apart from society in the Canaleta provincial prison, in Ciego de Ávila. Thinking about the performance of the famous Columbian singer this afternoon, I appealed to the good humor of those men who, because of mistreatment, live day after day hoping for freedom, and those out of [...]
Clasificado en General a las Jul 23rd, 2009 497 Comentarios »
Image: Millet
In Cuba, during the last 50 years, I believe that the fear has been greater than the pain. And there is no more convincing reason than the last weeks of living here in Section 3 of the Provincial Prison of Canaleta in Ciego de Ávila. It’s also known that tradition is stronger than love, [...]
Clasificado en General a las Jul 23rd, 2009 43 Comentarios »
Image: Claude Monet
During the night of June 16, the inmates of Canaleta Prison in Ciego de Ávila began a massive protest because there was no water to bathe in, let alone to drink. In addition, most of them had spent the whole day of terrible heat without access to the telephone, and they were banned [...]
Clasificado en General a las Jul 19th, 2009 355 Comentarios »
Image: Abstract by Luis Trapaga
On the afternoon of June 7, Andres Licea, the interior order agent, told Heriberto Castillo Sanchez that they would not take him to his appointment with a gastroenterologist at the Antonio Luaces Hiraola provincial hospital because there was no available car.
Castillo Sanchez told me that this is another cock-and-bull story from [...]
Clasificado en General a las Jul 19th, 2009 1,991 Comentarios »
Image: Fernand Léger
Inevitably, information technology generates space. Day after day, also inevitably, closed regimes suffocate in the little space they guarantee themselves to remain in power. Yesterday, Darais Reyes, the wife of Norman Hernandez Gonzalez, director of the College of Independent Journalists in Camaguey and arrested during the Black Spring of 2003, told me that [...]
Clasificado en General a las Jul 11th, 2009 230 Comentarios »
It is known throughout history that solidarity is what really brings men back to life. When the idea of creating my own blog emerged and Ivan offered to help, I thought it would be something with a fictional flavor. I knew very little about what a blog was and even less about the Internet due [...]
Clasificado en General a las Jul 9th, 2009 46 Comentarios »
Image: Estrella de Luis Trapaga
The effects of the global crisis affect a good part of Cuban society. I am not sure, since I believe that no one can assert that the whole population will be whipped without mercy by the economic difficulties we currently face. We can see here in prison a small part of [...]
Clasificado en General a las Jul 7th, 2009 111 Comentarios »
Image: Multiplication of the Arcs by Yves Tanguy
The Western World endured a rude awakening this past Sunday. At least this is the impression I got when watching those few channels on television I get here, being a prisoner of conscience, and a few I try to keep track of because of how much I enjoy [...]
