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From “White Udder” to the seven-legged bull | Generation Y

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An English translation of Yoani Sánchez's blog Generación Y, from Havana, Cuba. Skip to primary content. From White Udder to the seven-legged bull. May 15, 2015. Illustration of a cow. (14ymedio). The cow that still owns the Guinness World Record, was a sacrificial victim on the altar of this national and political vanity. Gone are the times of those exaggerated ranching achievements, now we can only crow about our anomalies. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). May 20, 2015 at 11:59 am.

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Welcome Hollande, Goodbye Hollande | Generation Y

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An English translation of Yoani Sánchez's blog Generación Y, from Havana, Cuba. Skip to primary content. Welcome Hollande, Goodbye Hollande. May 12, 2015. François Hollande and Raul Castro, at their meeting at the Palace of the Revolution. (EFE). So many that we have lost count. In the minds of many, the first French president on Cuban soil will be remembered for his complacent posture toward the authorities. A man who has declared that French and Cubans have shared the same movement of ideas, the same a...

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The Risks of Journalism | Generation Y

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An English translation of Yoani Sánchez's blog Generación Y, from Havana, Cuba. Skip to primary content. The Risks of Journalism. May 21, 2015. Generation Y, Yoani Sanchez, Havana, 21 May 2015 If you has asked me a year ago what would be the three greatest challenges of the digital newspaper. From that journalism of statements that produces such harmful effects. To quote an official, to collect the words of a minister, or to transcribe the official proclamation of a Party leader, has been for decades...

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Art and Necessity | Generation Y

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An English translation of Yoani Sánchez's blog Generación Y, from Havana, Cuba. Skip to primary content. May 28, 2015. Installation on the Havana Malecon for the XII Havana Biennial(14ymedio). The man approaches and pulls a fork from the work. That is being exhibited on the Havana Malecon during the XII Havana Biennial. Nearby, two neighbors speculate that, at the end of the event, the sand used in. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). Share on Facebook (Opens in new window). Click to share o...

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Tsipras’ “Betrayal” | Generation Y

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An English translation of Yoani Sánchez's blog Generación Y, from Havana, Cuba. Skip to primary content. Tsipras’ “Betrayal”. July 15, 2015. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, during an interview with state television. (Alexandros Vlachos / EFE). Tsipras has accepted what until recently he rejected. All his incendiary nationalistic rhetoric has ended in a pragmatic gesture of compliance. Political greatness? A final grimace of goodwill before heading out the backdoor of power in Greece? Now the diatrib...

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Carnival Cruise Lines, A Paradigm of Our Times | Generation Y

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An English translation of Yoani Sánchez's blog Generación Y, from Havana, Cuba. Skip to primary content. Carnival Cruise Lines, A Paradigm of Our Times. July 9, 2015. A cruise ship from the American company Carnival Cruise Lines (Carnival). Carnival Cruise Lines is the last fig leaf that has been removed and it lays bare their shameless fascination with money, their own and others’. Here the difference is that we will see them coming by sea and they won’t be hiding what they have, he said. 41 thoughts on...

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Cult of Personality in Cuban Parliament | Generation Y

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An English translation of Yoani Sánchez's blog Generación Y, from Havana, Cuba. Skip to primary content. Cult of Personality in Cuban Parliament. July 15, 2015. The cover of the book “Raul Castro: A Man in Revolution ‘Nikolai Leonov. On Tuesday, the entire National Assembly of People’s Power dedicated itself to the presentation of the book. Raul Castro: A Man in Revolution. Out of modesty, or because he had to lead the 11. Situations like yesterday are proof that the pernicious cult of personality remain...

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The Landscape Before the Storm | Generation Y

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An English translation of Yoani Sánchez's blog Generación Y, from Havana, Cuba. Skip to primary content. The Landscape Before the Storm. June 15, 2015. The headquarters of the State phone company ETECSA in Havana. (14ymedio). Implementation of a package of flexibility measures, outstanding among them links to the sector of new technologies and connectivity, the White House has set more than one person scuttling on this island. The lesson of Isabel Dos Santos. Share on Facebook (Opens in new window).

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Emigrating in the Third Age | Generation Y

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An English translation of Yoani Sánchez's blog Generación Y, from Havana, Cuba. Skip to primary content. Emigrating in the Third Age. June 23, 2015. An old man. (Silvia Corbelle). In order to put a roof over their children’s heads. The majority of these children, now men and women, do not live on the island today. However, the exodus has also spread to a worrying extent among those of the third age. Why are you leaving if all that’s left to you are ‘two shaves,’? Even the elderly are packing their suitca...

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How Do You Tame Computer Users? | Generation Y

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An English translation of Yoani Sánchez's blog Generación Y, from Havana, Cuba. Skip to primary content. How Do You Tame Computer Users? May 19, 2015. User on Revolico, the Cuban “Craigslist” (Silvia Corbelle, 14ymedio). They will try to engulf one of the wildest, freest phenomenon parallel to power in Cuban society today. Why isn’t it possible to create a Union of Cuban Computer Users dedicated to teaching the population to use the tools that allow them to more freely and easily access new technologies?