At the Feet of the Virgin / Francis Sánchez
Photos: Francis Sánchez. The image of Mary, mother of Christ, which today makes a pilgrimage through the entire country announcing the message of the God’s love for man, came to the province of Ciego...
View ArticleClarification for the Reader / Francis Sánchez
“Man in the Clouds ” is my personal blog. My expectations are based on fulfilling the natural mandate of God to live and express myself as a rational social being, like any creature with free will. I...
View ArticleFormal Resignation from the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) /...
In Ciego de Avila, Cuba, 24 January 2011 To: Whom it may concern. Subject: Formal resignation from the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) Disclaimer: I don’t care to detour to particular and...
View ArticleHopefully Cuba Deserves It / Francis Sánchez
Trapped by the crowd, he had his back pressed against the wall of the movie theater. Everyone was shouting, demanding an attentive response, as if he could extricate himself and easily take some phrase...
View ArticleIs It So Easy to Have a Blog in Cuba, Silvio? / Francis Sánchez
Personalities on television, as a matter of privilege, exercise basic rights that are denied to viewers. There appears to have been considerable impact from the TV program “Where there is true...
View ArticleThe Word Birch / Francis Sánchez
Photo: Francis Sánchez. One day a long time ago, I drew the word birch to my favourite and beloved poet Herberto Padilla, the word which he could never climb in such a short life the place where we had...
View ArticleClosed for Demolition / Francis Sánchez
[I have decided to publish, before this blog is closed down, some texts that I didn't publish at the time because it was practically impossible to do it because of obvious difficulties or because as...
View ArticleOn Closing / Francis Sánchez
I had promised to publish two other parts of my last post, “Closed for Demolition”. Many days have gone by without my being able to do so. I will no longer do it, because definitely what I had in mind...
View ArticleCOUNTRY OF PIXELS CONTEST 2011 / Francis Sánchez
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View ArticleWhat Confusion. What Joy. What Pain. / Francis Sánchez
What confusion. Pablo Milanes, the mythical founder of the Movement for the Nueva Trova (1972), began the second part of his nationwide tour “For Cuba” in the center of the island, only about ten...
View ArticleThe War of the Paladares (Restaurants) / Francis Sánchez
(A Contribution to Travel Literature) That the facilities for obtaining patents for small services trigger a headlong rush among Cubans you already knew. The restrictions on private enterprise, and...
View ArticleDomestic Violence / Francis Sánchez
Photo: Francis Sánchez One day I discovered that my wife accused me of attempted murder. She based her accusation on a poem she had found among my unpublished scribbles, where I addressed the dream of...
View ArticleSalvador, a Seat Occupied in Cuban Literature / Francis Sánchez
Interview of Salvador Bueno (fragment*) I met him in 1998. That year, on October 12, he received the “José Vasconcelos” prize in a ceremony at the National Hotel in Havana. The gold medal, conferred by...
View ArticleHuge Hell Whether it Works or Not (For the Poetry of the ’90s) / Francis Sánchez
[In this part of an unedited interview, which I don’t know when it will be published, I respond to the question: "Ciego de Ávila: Love or scorn?"] I have tried to invent the province lovingly, although...
View ArticleHoes / Francis Sánchez
Photos: Francis Sanchez I went shopping in search of a hoe. Perhaps it was suddenly suggested to me by the partisan propaganda which always lays a guilt trip on the will of the majority — yeah, the...
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Lezama Lima vs. Moscow / Francis Sanchez
Almost thirty years after the fall of the communist bloc, the Cuban writer José Lezama Lima is still dealing with “Moscow” through the ongoing influence of the Soviet Union, to which he himself fell...
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Francis Sanchez: Smoke Signal for the Release of Angel Santiesteban
At the request of Angel Santiesteban I am publishing here the letter sent by the well-known poet and writer Francis Sanchez, in which he attached an article he wrote. The Editor Angelito: I don’t know...
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The Experiment of Hope / Francis Sanchez
Dagoberto Valdés, director of the periodical ‘Convivencia’. (BARACUTEYCUBANO.BLOGSPOT.COM) On the 15th of February 2008, with the uploading to the internet of Issue 1 (January-February), the magazine...
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Juanita Castro: Memory is Never Harmless / 14ymedio, Francis Sanchez
Juanita Castro Ruz in front of the cover of her book 14YMEDIO, Francis Sanchez, Ciego de Avila, 18 August 2014 – The anecdotes, the identities and the composition of the family of the Cuban...
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Francis Sanchez, Another of the Writers Tired of Mediocrity? / Angel...
Writers tired of mediocrity Ángel Santiesteban, 9 March 2015 — I recognize that at times I don’t mention writers living in Cuba for fear of harming them, although I know how most Cuba intellectuals...
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