A Bloggers' Polemic (1): Reflecting on a Year of Rigorous Debate

During the past year of 2011 the Cuban blogosphere has really come into its own, developing a depth and breadth that has made it a force to be reckoned with.

Much well deserved international media attention (along with an outpouring of unsurprising Cuban government attacks) have focused on Yoani Sanchez's Generation Y and the related group blogging portal Voces Cubanas (English).  At the same time, many other collective cyber-projects have appeared and attracted followings of their own.  Among these, the most notable are the maturing and deepening of Havana Times, the relaunching of BloggersCuba (along with the companion site Bubusopia run jointly by Yasmin Portales and Rogelio Diaz), and the dynamic and lengthy comments section of the La Joven Cuba blog.

A number of important new individual cyber-voices and sites have also appeared in the last year to year-and-a-half, including Eduardo del Llano's blog, that of Silvio Rodriguez, Larry Press' The Internet in Cuba, Arch Ritter's The Cuban Economy, Ernesto Morales' Little Brother blog (now done from his new home in Miami), the appearance of El Sexto, as well as the not-to-miss Cafe Fuerte site, Emilio Ichikawa's blog, Tracey Eaton's vital Cuban Money Project and Vimeo sites (complementing his Along the Malecon), The Center for Democracy in the Americas Cuba Central blog with its excellent weekly news blast roundup, John McAuliff's Cuba-US People-to-People Partnership site, Estado de SATS entry into cyberspae with its own blog, and the recent redesign of the indispensable Penultimos Dias.

Finally, Ellery Biddle, Janine Mendes-Franco, and Elaine Diaz have made the Cuba page at Global Voices a source of keen observation and analysis. And the official blogosphere has also added a new voice with the addition of Iroel Sanchez's La Pupila Insomne.

Some of this activity is covered by Julia Cooke in her recent article at Guernica magazine, "Bloggers of Havana."

During the month of January, readers of El Yuma can look forward to a series of posts here where I reflect on the emergence of the Cuban blogosphere and trace the ups and downs of the "Bloggers Polemic" that ignited across Cuban cyberspace during the year.

"Hitch" on "Che"

Today I was filtering through some old files from the course I teach on Cuba and came across a rich and penetrating review article about Ernesto "Che" Guevara written in 1997 by Christopher Hitchens.

The article, from The New York Review of Books, is provocatively entitled, "Goodbye to All That," and is a double book review of Jon Lee Anderson's authoritative Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life and a new translation of Guevara's own "on the road" classic The Motorcycle Diaries.

If my memory serves me correctly, I learned of the article first from my colleague, the anthropologist Ariana Hernández-Regaunt.  H/T to her.

You can, and should, read the entire article yourself.  But keep reading below for some juicy and quite timely excerpts, especially given what's afoot these days in the Cuban economy.

First, however, I give you the exquisite finale of the piece:

"The very element that gave [Guevara] his certainty and courage—his revolutionary communism—was also the element that condemned him to historical eclipse. In setting down the whole story in such a respectful but objective manner, Jon Lee Anderson has succeeded in writing, for himself and I suspect for many others, a nuanced goodbye to all that."

BlogTalkRadio: Twitear Desde Cuba

Here is the link to an mp3 of today's Internet radio show with Columbia Journalism Professor Mirta Ojito and Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez (totalmente en Español).

Columbia School of Journalism: Tweeting Under Castro

On Wednesday morning, December 21 at 10 a.m., Columbia Journalism School presents a "revolutionary" webcast, their first ever in Spanish, with Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez (@YoaniSanchez) to discuss how social media breaks down the walls of censorship in Cuba and elsewhere. 

Yoani will be interviewed from Havana and talking with Prof. Mirta Ojito (@mirtaojito), author of Finding Mañana: A Memoir of a Cuban Exodus and professor and blogger Teresa Puente (@tcpuente).  Please email your questions to sree@sree.net (subject = Cuba) or call in live! to the number: (646) 915-9583.

Tune in here tomorrow at 10 a.m. for this exciting broadcast!

"Hitch was one of a kind": Miriam Leiva remembers Christopher Hitchens

Miriam Leiva, Oscar Espinosa Chepe, and El Yuma 

(Havana, summer, 2008)

Those who have read the now late Christopher Hitchens' memoir, Hitch-22, know that it contains a chapter, "Havana versus Prague," chronicling his "internationalist solidarity" visit to Cuba in 1968.  He did voluntary labor at the "Cinco de Mayo" work camp and, tellingly for him, had his passport (then a British one) confiscated for "safe keeping" during his stay so that the authorities could "look after it" and, one assumes, after him too.

I summarized the chapter in a post from June 2010 when Hitchens passed through NYC to promote Hitch-22.  Here's a photo from his memoir showing him posing with two other young revolutionary internationalists.

Others may remember that Hitch visited Cuba again much more recently in the fall of 2008 when he accompanied actor Sean Penn and historian Douglas Brinkley on a junket that included Chavez's Venezuela and Raul's Cuba. Penn got the scoop in Havana, being the first "reporter" to land an interview with Cuba's new leader. Hitchens shares his impressions of Chavez here. Unfortunately for us, he never met or interviewed Castro. That would have been a doozy!

I just discovered, via an article published by Miriam Leiva in Slate (Spanish), that Hitchens was also in Havana with is family during New Year's 1995-1996.  In town doing a story on Cuba for Vanity Fair (the article is collected in Hitchens book Love, Poetry, and War), Hitchens paid a surprise visit to the dissidents Miriam Leiva and her husband Oscar Espinosa Chepe (pictured with me above).  He even invited them back to his hotel, none other than the presidential suite of the Hotel Nacional, for a New Year's Day breakfast!

Leiva informed Hitchens that she and her husband had become "seventh-rate citizens in their own country" as a punishment for their losing the revolutionary faith.  And Espinosa Chepe commented wryly to him: "If Karl Marx were Cuban, he'd be in jail or in Miami." To wit, Hitchens juxtaposes the following pair of pregnant epigraphs to kick off his chapter, "Havana v. Prague":

"Within the Revolution, everything. Outside the Revolution, nothing." - Fidel Castro

"Ex ecclesia, nulla salus." [Outside the church, no salvation.] - Thomas Aquinas

Below, Leiva movingly remembers Hitchens' visit in 1995 and the difference it made to her and her husband both at the time and in the difficult years still to come.

Good Bye, Dear Leader: Kim Jong-il, Leader of North Korea, Is Dead

Breaking News Alert
The New York Times

Kim Jong-il, Leader of North Korea, Is Dead

Kim Jong-il, the reclusive dictator who kept North Korea at the edge of starvation and collapse, banished to gulags citizens deemed disloyal and turned the country into a nuclear weapons state, died Saturday, according to North Korean state news media.

Called the "Dear Leader" by his people, Mr. Kim, the son of North Korea's founder, remained an unknowable figure. Everything about him was guesswork, from the exact date and place of his birth to the cause of his death to the mythologized events of his rise in a country formed by the hasty division of the Korean Peninsula at the end of World War II.

North Koreans heard about him only as their "peerless leader" and "the great successor to the revolutionary cause." Yet he fostered what was perhaps the last personality cult in the Communist world. His portrait hangs beside that of his father, Kim Il-sung, in every North Korean household and building. Towers, banners and even rock faces across the country bear slogans praising him.

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LATE BREAKING NEWS!

"There is a growing consensus that the United States' five-decade trade embargo against Cuba has not succeeded in weakening the Castro government."

-- New York Times, Dec. 16, 2011

Christopher Hitchens: The New Commandments

It's difficult to take oneself with sufficient seriousness to begin any sentence with the words "Thou shalt not."

But who cannot summon the confidence to say: 

Do not condemn people on the basis of their ethnicity or color. 

Do not ever use people as private property. 

Despise those who use violence or the threat of it in sexual relations. 

Hide your face and weep if you dare to harm a child. 

Do not condemn people for their inbornnature—why would God create so many homosexuals only in order to torture and destroy them? Be aware that you too are an animal and dependent on the web of nature, and think and act accordingly. 

Do not imagine that you can escape judgment if you rob people with a false prospectus rather than with a knife. 

Turn off that fucking cell phone—you have no idea howunimportant your call is to us. 

Denounce all jihadists and crusaders for what they are: psychopathic criminals with ugly delusions. 

Be willing to renounce any god or any religion if any holy commandments should contradict any of the above. 

In short: Do not swallow your moral code in tablet form.

Check out the full version of this video on YouTube.

Martinoticias Hoy: Los negocios y el Cuentapropismo en Cuba

"Los negocios y el Cuentapropismo en la Isla"

Los problemas económicos y la falta de experiencia, son solo algunas de las múltiples dificultades que afronta el cuentapropista en la isla. Hoy, con la colaboración de nuestros invitados, dentro y fuera de Cuba, trataremos de despejar muchas de las dudas y darle solución a interrogantes de cubanos que intentan encaminar sus pequeños negocios. 

En esta edición, dedicada a los negocios y el cuentapropismo en la Isla, incluyendo la importancia de los medios de comunicación social para fomentar el espíritu empresarial cubano, contamos con la presencia vía Skype de experimentados empresarios cubanoamericanos en Union City, Nueva Jersey. 

Desde Cuba contamos con la participación de los economistas Oscar Espinosa Chepe y Karina Gálvez, así como el cuentapropista Yosvani Anzardo. 

La audiencia podrá participar mediante las redes sociales facebook.com/avanzacuba, Twitter: @avanzacuba y nuestra página web www.martinoticias.com. 

Pueden comunicarse con nosotros a través del email: avanzacuba@gmail.com o al teléfono: (305) 437-7319. 

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From Cuba's "Dictator's Dilemma" to the US' "Digital Divide"

Excellent NYT op-ed by Susan P. Crawford on "The New Digital Divide" in US high-speed Internet access.

We invented the Internet and are the leading innovator in telecom, "yet lag far behind in actual use of that technology."

http://t.co/CGA2iIyM

Final paragraph:

"The new digital divide raises important questions about social equity in an information-driven world. But it is also a matter of protecting our economic future. Thirty years from now, African-Americans and Latinos, who are at the greatest risk of being left behind in the Internet revolution, will be more than half of our work force. If we want to be competitive in the global economy, we need to make sure every American has truly high-speed wired access to the Internet for a reasonable cost."

MinRex Conference on the rise of Digital Media

A notable conference is taking place on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week at Havana's Centro de Convenciones. It is titled, "Alternative media and social networks" [Taller Internacional sobre los Medios Alternativos y Redes Sociales], and is being sponsored by Cuba's Ministry of Foreign Relations (MinRex).

However, as this final paragraph from the Prensa Latina news report indicates, there are many, wildly different understandings of the term "alternative."

"The agenda includes the increasing importance of alternative media and social networks in the media battle Cuba and the so-called Third World countries are carrying out to include it in the international communicative scenario, states the website."

In other words, the conference seeks to discover how Cuba and other developing countries can use digital media and social networks to win the "media battle" against the dreaded "corporate Western mainstream media."

That's all well and good, but of course, the word "alternative" can also describe Cuba's own cyber-activists who seek to critically counter the official, state-run mass media in Cuba, otherwise known as propaganda.

Not all of these cyber-activists and bloggers are "dissidents," but most of them do seek to establish an autonomous space of independent, critical dialogue, debate, and sometimes dissent through the strategic use of these very same "alternative media and social networks."

For example, here's Yoani Sanchez's own take on the event and what she sees as the highjacking of the word "alternative" by the official organizers (as reported by Marti Noticias).

“The first thing that surprised me was the use of the word 'alternative.' Being an alternative is always understood as a way to confront officialdom and the status quo of the mechanisms of state information. Then you have the Cuban government organize an event which calls itself 'social networks and alternative spaces' but refuses to invite or is simply ignorant of the existence of a truly alternative community that uses social networks in Cuba.”

“It is quite curious how they try to appropriate the term 'alternative' and make us think that being an alternative is synonymous with 'party' or 'government.' No, the real alternatives are we who have no Internet connection, no one pays us a salary for tweeting, no one orients us about what we have to do; the real alternatives are we who risk our lives, our credibility, and our freedom by narrating what we narrate.”

Keep reading below or the full Prensa Latina article, "Cuba Looks at Alternative Media, Social Networks" (though you won't learn much from it).

You can read more at the Marti Noticias article cited above which is entitled, "Figuras cubanas del ciberespacio: grandes ausentes en evento de redes sociales."

Finally, Penultimos Dias also has a note on the event that includes a pair of photos, one of which features Cuban agent Raul Capote and Jean Guy Allard, and another that shows bloggers Elaine Diaz, Sandra "negra cubana tenia que ser" Alvarez, and Paquito "el de Cuba."

Pallí: The loans are coming!

Here's a good assessment of Cuba's new real estate and loan provisions from José Manuel Pallí (H/T EthnoCuba).

"The Loans Are Coming" - The Cuba Standard

"A sip of chamomile tea to go with the Valium."

Since Cuba published the recent changes to its housing laws allowing resident citizens to sell their homes, the talk in Miami — especially among those who feel an urgent call to give a negative spin to any news from Cuba — has turned around questions like, 'Where are the home sellers going to live?'

So when I heard about Cuba's new lending system, while waiting in line for the doors to one of our glorious bazars to open up this abbreviated Thanksgiving Day, the first thought that came to my mind was we now had yet another reason to worry: Where will those Cubans who lose their homes to the bank go?

Of course, the geography around me helped dispel most of my own concerns: Here we are, in Miami — a city which has a legitimate claim to be the natural host for our next reality TV show, 'Foreclose America,' in a state of Florida where our courts of law are hooked to a life support system dependent on foreclosure filing fees, where jobs are ever more scarce, and yet nobody is deprived of his/her constitutional right to shop, maxed credit card or not. And obviously, they must have some place to keep all this new stuff they are buying — with even some space to spare for a bed or sleeping bag.

Go here for the rest of the story...

IRI: Cuban Public Opinion - Not so fast!

Here's another survey report about Cuba, this time from the IRI - International Republican Institute.

It found much less enthusiasm and much more skepticism about the economic reforms so far enacted under Raul Castro.


Here's a pull quote:


"There are a lot of headlines here in the U.S. about changes coming to Cuba, but IRI's survey shows that the Cuban people themselves are not necessarily seeing it so far. They remain skeptical that the Cuban government can improve their lives."

More here and here.  The report is also available in Spanish here.

AP: Small-farmer and micro-enterprise loans on the way in Cuba

Cuba to launch bank loans for farmers, small-business owners, others in December

By the Associated Press

HAVANA — Cuba is announcing a new credit system that will begin offering loans to small-business owners, private farmers and other citizens beginning next month.

It is a key step that economists say is necessary to support independent workers and allow President Raul Castro's economic reform package to be effective.

The government's Official Gazette says loans will also be made available to people looking to purchase building materials, to pay for labor associated with home construction, and other needs.

The Gazette says the system will be rolled out "progressively, as the country's economic and financial conditions permit."

The rules announced Thursday take effect Dec. 20.

Copyright 2011 The Associated Press.

Padurisima (4): "¿Para qué (no por qué, sino para qué) se escribe una novela?

El Yuma's favorite Cuban writer Leonardo Padura has just won the 2011 Roger Caillois Literary Prize for his novel 'El hombre que amaba a los perros' (2009) and in recognition of the entirety of his work as a novelist. He is the first Cuban writer to receive the award in its 20-year history.

"El hombre" was published in a French translation earlier this year and is set to some out in English in 2012.

The prize is sponsored by the Casa de América Latina of Paris, the Society of Readers and Friends of Roger Caillois, and the Pen Club of France.

Wilfredo Cancio Isla of the web site Cafe Fuerte has published a detailed story on the prize, giving an update on Padura's current projects.

These include a sneak preview of the new film "Siete Días en La Habana" at the 33rd Festival of New Latin American Film in Havana in December. Padura was one of the screenwriters for the seven-part film and worked together with director Benicio del Toro on the short entitled, "El Yuma," earlier this year.

Cancio also reports on Padura's latest work-in-progress, "Los Herejes" (The Heretics), the seventh title in his ongoing Mario Conde noir fiction series, which he expects to have finished by early 2012. This ambitious new installment in the hardboiled series is a "story about freedom as a human condition and need" and, as all of Padura's novels, is set in contemporary Cuba. However, the story begins in the 1640s in Amsterdam in the private library of Rembrandt!

Below is a brief embedded video of Padura speaking with from Madrid. Here is also a link to a talk he gave at Casa de America Latina in Paris last year.

NPR: Operation Peter Pan, 50 years later

Children Of Cuba Remember Their Flight To America

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At Miami's airport, children from Cuba meet George Guarch, who worked for the Catholic Welfare Bureau in the city. Guarch took displaced children to temporary camps in Miami.

Published: November 19, 2011

by Greg Allen

Operation Pedro Pan shaped the lives of a generation of Cuban-Americans. Between 1960 and 1962, the program airlifted more than 14,000 Cuban children from Havana to the U.S. Fifty years later, those children are recalling how that flight changed their lives.

In Miami this weekend, a group of Cuban-Americans — now in their 50s and 60s — are gathering to commemorate the flights that took them from their homeland to America.

Cuban Barbers to Gain More Freedoms

Cuban Barbers to Gain More Freedoms

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We’re taking a little off the top and trimming the sideburns for today’s Geo Quiz. Barbers in the Caribbean city we’re looking for will have a little more freedom come December 1st.

They won’t suddenly be coming out with new outlandish styles and coifs. No.

It’s a much more basic freedom: they’ll simply be able to run their own barber shops, and work outside of state control. It’s part of a trend in this city: more and more of this city’s residents are becoming self-employed.

The Communist government here is cash-strapped, and wants to slash a million jobs from its payrolls. We hope the answer to this Quiz is coming into focus now.

We’re going to turn to Ted Henken for the answer. He’s professor of Latin American Studies at Baruch College in New York. And he writes about Cuba on his blog El Yuma.

The answer to our Geo Quiz is Havana.

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Freedom House, CDA, and now Brookings: Reaching out to Cuba

The past month has seen the appearance of three special reports from Washington think tanks, all of which recognize the significance (if still the insufficiency) of the economic reforms being implemented over the past year in Cuba.

First was this report from Freedom House, which indicated that Cubans are hopeful about the pace, scope, and direction of reforms to date - likely the most surprising given that institution's regular criticism of the lack of both economic and political freedoms on the island.

Then came a report from The Center for Democracy in the Americas which declared that Cuba's reforms are "real, irreversible, and merit U.S. support.

Finally, today appeared the Brookings report, "Reaching Out: Cuba’s New Economy and the International Response," written by Richard Feinberg, a Nonresident Senior Fellow at that institution.

Both Along the Malecon and Penultimos Dias have already commented on the Brookings report. While I haven't read the entire thing (PDF) yet myself, I have reviewed this executive summary and can say I agree that U.S. policy should be based on empowering the Cuban people (even if it helps the government), rather than punishing the government (even if it harms the people).

Feinberg's findings:

Hipoteca, no; compra y venta, si: 50 years after urban reform, a paradigm shift

Surfing around the Internet the other day trying to get some background on the history of urban reform and housing law in Cuba over the last 50 years, I can upon a very timely and original scholarly article by Erich Trefftz, "50 Years Since the Urban Reform Law in Cuba: On the Anniversary of the Paradigm Shift"(PDF), published in August in the Revista INVI (Vol. 26, No. 27, 2011) at the Universidad de Chile.

The article is available in both English and Spanish.  The Spanish title is: "50 AÑOS DE LA LEY DE REFORMA URBANA EN CUBA. EN EL ANIVERSARIO DEL CAMBIO DE PARADIGMA."

The article is noteworthy for two things...

Are cooperatives next?

Cuban Co-operatives Set to Expand [?]
By Patricia Grogg (IPS)

HAVANA, Nov 14, 2011 (IPS) - The creation of co-operatives forms part of the current "updating" of the Cuban economy, even though no official information has been provided about the expansion of this form of business management, which has already been tested, with mixed results, in agriculture.

Decree Law 288 updating Cuba's "General Housing Law"

Here's the official PDF of Cuba's new housing law set to take effect next week.

Let the games begin!

My take on Cuba's real estate reforms

This is from Damien Cave at the NYT.

This is from Paul Haven at AP and an update here.

And here's the Granma announcement in Spanish.

My quick take:

This is a very positive step in the right direction toward greater economic freedom and individual and family rights of private property. It will immediately increase the personal wealth of millions of Cubans as it restores to them one of the fundamental rights of private property - that of buying and selling it freely.

However, as with all of Raul's reforms to date and especially with the automobile flexibilizations - the devil is in the details. There are at least two key restrictions still in place here as I understand the announcement:

1) Sales are only allowed among Cuban citizens resident on the island (or to and from foreigners with permanent residence - which is understandable at this point and clearly designed to prevent a "giant sucking sound" of the transfer of title to foreigners with much much more cash than the average Cuban property owner). But of course Cuban émigrés will get around this by giving money to friends and relatives resident in Cuba so that they can purchase property for them.

2) Cubans are still limited to owning just two pieces of property: a home and a vacation home. This is clearly designed to prevent the accumulation of wealth - a constant concern of the government of Raul over the last year as he moves to "mix up" and "modernize" Cuba's rigid, inefficient statist economy.

Stay tuned...

Real estate reform comes to Cuba

But how real is it?

Here's the Granma announcement.

And here's AP's take:

HAVANA (AP) -- Cuba announced Thursday it will allow real estate to be bought and sold for the first time since the early days of the revolution, the most important reform yet in a series of free-market changes under President Raul Castro.

The law, which takes effect Nov. 10, applies to citizens and permanent residents only, according to a red-letter headline on the front page of Thursday's Communist Party daily Granma.

The brief article said details of the new law would be published imminently in the government's Official Gazette. Authorities have said previously that sales will be subject to taxes and the rules will not allow anyone to accumulate great property holdings.

Rubio today in the WSJ

Go here for the full interview.

On The Washington Post article alleging that he embellished his family history:

"I concede dates were wrong. We didn't know that. As soon as we figured out the dates were wrong, we stopped saying that. We were relying on the family's oral history which, 50 years later, was wrong."

"I disagree that it was politically advantageous to me in terms of saying it. Nobody voted for me that thought my parents came in '59 that wouldn't have voted for me knowing it had been 1956. My family story is the same one. The speeches I gave on campaign trail, I could still give them.

My parents came from Cuba, they came to the United States in search of a better life, they tried and planned to live in Cuba again, and couldn't because of communism. They returned to an exile community where I was raised."

"The essence of my story was that as a child of exiles, I understood that America was different and that you can lose your country. None of that has changed. The story is the same one."

Padurisima (3): Who's the diva?

Read this passage from Leonardo Padura's novel, Havana Fever, and tell me who you think he is REALLY talking about when he describes the bolero singer and consumate diva, Katy Barqué, as someone who possesses a:

"patent disregard for any sense of historical boundaries and her attempt to cling, against the wind, tide, logic, time and fear of the grotesque, to a pre-eminence that was no longer hers ... turning her into a caricature of herself."

Leete este pedazo de la novela de Leonardo Padura, La neblina de ayer, y dime de quien esta REALMENTE hablando cuando describa a la bolerista y diva contumaz, Katy Barqué, como alguien que posee una:

"patente ausencia [...] del sentido del limite historico y al empeno al aferrarse, contra viento, marea, logico, tiempo y medida de lo grotesco, a una preeminencia que ya no le correspondia y que, [...] la habia transformado en una caricatura [...] de si misma." 

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