Tina Modotti: An inspiration for radio
Italian Tina Modotti had a life full of experiences, love, conflicts related to the world revolution including her relationship with Julio Antonio Mella, to be taken into account by any radio scriptwriter devoted to reflect a female model going beyond her living time.
In order to go deep into Tina´s life, there is a must while visiting Adys Cupull and Froilan Gonzalez´s place - San Lazaro Street in Havana - two closed writers in love and in the art of seeking the truth. (1) In an August afternoon in 2008 I visited them. With the same tenderness of narrating stories I was welcome, at first in the living room decorated with books, photos, memories of tours with outstanding images of Che, Julio Antonio and Tina Modotti, essential players at the prose of this diligent couple in terms of history
The media and its lies
Among the overwhelming questions of humanity apart from the wars, there are the sincerity of men and the mistrust of each other. I recently read in a European digital newspaper: "I know what some politicians – whom I know - personally think, and I do know they are loyal to the reality and history. But there are others who construct reality from communication offices and some times they dazzle and deceive us, leading us all, including journalists, to their scenario".
Draft Guidelines for the Economic and Social Policy: Support, but also Reflection and Contribution of ideas
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ubans will discuss, from December 1st through February 28th, the Draft Guidelines for the Economic and Social Policy by the Cuban Communist Party (PCC) and the Revolution, with a view to the 6th Congress of the PCC.
The document is a guide to set the course of the nation according to present and future demands, a process known as “Updating of the Cuban Economic Model”, which will require the conscientious participation of the people and the working class, who play the leading role in all changes needed to be made.