News from Cuba concerning a crackdown against entrenched corruption have circled the world in the last few weeks. A former food industries minister, Alejandro Roca, is serving a 15-year sentence. The president of Cubana de Aviacion was fired and 14 executives of that airline and a tourism agency were sentenced to prison terms. Officials from the …
Author Archives: José Latour
New Book Announcement
Seeing that countless booklovers in different countries, at launches or by email, ask me questions about Cuba, I felt it worthwhile to write a non-fiction book about my country of birth recounting the 20th century’s most important political, economic and social events, and the challenges that I believe Cuba will have to deal with in the future. I strove …
Reading from New Novel
I will be reading from my latest, still unpublished thriller “Riders of Land and Tide,” at Bloor/Gladstone Toronto Library, 1101 Bloor St. West, at 7 p.m. on May 26. A Q&A period will follow. I’m looking forward to seeing you there!
Entertainment and the Internet: Political Weapons?
During the previous century authoritarian regimes used radio, television, cinematography, sports and art forms such as stage plays, music and ballet, to make their subjects forget their tribulations and enslavement. Communist dictatorships excelled at this. Internet-based social media, however, has proved a two-edged sword. On the one hand, it serves as propaganda tool and invaluable source …
Harbord Collegiate
At some point in adulthood everyone grasps the full meaning of the expression “generation gap.” I partially got it when my kids were teenagers. Communism made Cuba different in many ways. For example, only an insignificant minority of privileged people had video games, cell phones, portable music players and other gadgets that entertain the majority …
