'They conned us, and the worst thing is the humiliation of having to depend on others, even when you have a pension', says a former state restaurant worker.
'The ICAIC is 65 years old, and gives its filmmakers no space, does not answer their emails or letters, and then talks about a celebration of Cuban cinema,' says Rosa María Rodriguez Pupo.
Alina Bárbara López Hernández, Ulises Toirac, Yotuel, Randy Malcom, Osmani García, Cuqui la Mora, La Diosa, Leoni Torres, Daymé Arocena and others weigh in on the situation in Cuba, all of them sending the same message: 'No to violence'.
Although the preliminary drafts of the future laws have not yet been published, it is not too early to ask questions about their contents and how they should benefit Cubans.
Is an operation underway in Cuba to displace an entire sector of Castroism, deemed too ideological, and promote a more business-friendly system headed by the military?
By publicly proclaiming her defiance of the regime, Alina Bárbara López is challenging the foundations of Cuba's system of domination. We can't all be Mahatma Gandhi, but anyone can be Rosa Parks.
Erratic policies, produced by fear and devoid of objectives, have been the hallmarks of this Raulian era, the perfect culmination of a regime that is close to disappearing and that no one will miss.
Inmates' pregnancies are fraught with problems impacting not only those who opt to give birth in prisons, but also those who are separated from their children by their incarceration.
'Although there has been a lot of hot air about how important and urgent ending inflation is, the reality is that they haven't taken a single measure really aimed at lowering prices.'