SOCIETY

Old evils, new optimism

Thinking about each other, accepting it, helping them, also making their ideas, paths and dreams possible, is a way to contribute equally to their own paths and dreams. To think of the other is to keep in mind that our work, whether in front of a quartet, behind the wheel of a bus, the post of an agro or the window of a public service, has its fruit and destination in another. Whoever reads to us, to whom we sell or transport or facilitate a management, is like yourself. If we do our thing right, if we treat it and serve it well, that same treatment and service we must receive.

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CULTURE

There is no compensation, but justice

The film Fragments of a Woman does not focus on a story about motherhood. This proposal by hungarian director Mundruczó (AFTA – Day After Day, Pleasant Days, Little Apocrypha No.1, Joan of Arc on the Nightbus…), which has featured screenwriter Kata Wéber, wants to show the sudden collapse of a life project in the face of desire and the possibility of a couple (Sean and Martha) making family. Martha’s character will offer a lesson in humanity above what everyone expects.

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la ética del cuidado en Cuba
SOCIETY

Thumb and ethics of care in Cuba

One of the messages of the classic tale entitled Pulgarcito is precisely the invitation to slip through the difficulties and capture the dynamism of the miniature. Let us remember that in the narration the little protagonist settles in the horse’s ear, speaks quietly and achieves with a “strong” voice that only listens to the one who must do so, to get the animal to advance, and with this unusual fact the goal of moving from the small to the big is achieved. That dynamic of the small to the big is what Dr. Teresa Díaz Canals shares in her text to point out some aspects that she believes are necessary when addressing the issue of care in Cuba.

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CULTURE

Faulkner: between the Bible and literary mastery

Many writers have incorporated the Bible into their books. Among them, the following article reminds us of William Faulkner (Nobel Prize in Literature 1949).  He, like thousands of authors, would not let his literary imagination pass indifferent to the most famous narrative text of all time, from which he knew how to draw more than one interpretation when it came to opening himself to the depths of the human soul and giving away pieces as striking in that sense as Absalom, Absalom! And descend, Moses. In times of obligatory gathering, it would be not bad to stop, at least, in the work of a teacher of our teachers. It would be worth the try.

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RELIGION

Allocution February 7, 2021

In his Sunday address on 7 January, Cardinal Juan de la Caridad García, Archbishop of Havana, reminds us that prayer cannot be any occupation in the life of a Christian, as it was not for Jesus, who dedicated himself to the service of his brothers and sisters. “The man who has lived on the watch over others has been someone who has not been overcome by activism, agitation, haste, dispersion, but has sought throughout his life silence and prayer, even when everyone was looking for him.”

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Conversando con Monseñor Carlos Manuel de Céspedes en el Taller Orígenes en Bauta.
SOCIETY

Gaztelu and Carlos Jesus: the honest simplicity of poetry

Over the years, journalist Miguel Terry Valdespino claims that a poem such as “Late village” and a work as human and spiritual as that of Father Angel Gaztelu, “could not go unnoticed before the eyes and pen of the poet, narrator and critic baptized Carlos Jesús Cabrera Enríquez, who died at the young age of 54 and in full creative maturity”. Carlos, writer of extreme honesty, created, following the founding of Artemis as a province, the late people’s talk, the name of a poem of the same name of the priest and spiritual leader also of the renowned Grupo Orígenes, composed of figures such as Cintio Vitier, Fina García-Marruz, José Lezama Lima and Gastón Baquero, among others, who under his light (not in his shadow) , in the church of Nuestra Señora de la Merced and other grounds of Bauta, they broadened their spiritual vision not only with regard to religion and culture, but also in terms of the destiny of the Cuban nation.

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CULTURE

Cubans, cinema and the year they’re leaving

Despite the pain from the losses caused by covid, 2020 was an opportunity for the young Catholic writer, Xavier Carbonell, to cultivate himself. Beyond his own experience, he considers that during this time of pandemic, joints and ordering? many Cubans have opted for rereadings of retired books, magazines and films. “Despite everything, we’re still willing to hit all the balls on the room, officially certified for the next five years,” he says.

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SOCIETY

Walking together

We share with the readers of Palabra Nueva this text by Jorge Fernández Era, who this time writes about the need that we all have to feel accompanied and accompany at the same time the family member, the friend, the neighbor door with door or the acquaintance of the corner. “That’s what it’s all about: we have to go with each other. There’s no other left.”

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