Here is a selection of articles, Op-Eds, and Letters to the Editor that I have written on a variety of topics.
Aquí aparece una selección de artículos, editoriales y cartas al editor que he escrito sobre una variedad de temas.
25 de abril de 2022 – Cubanet: Adiós a un maestro: Manuel Márquez-Sterling (1931-2022)
4 de marzo de 2022 – Cubanet: Reafirmación democrática: 62 años de lucha por la libertad
Winter 2021 – CABA Briefs: Cuba’s July 11th Protests and the Road to ¡Libertad!
24 de noviembre de 2021 – Diario de Cuba: El legado político de Ramón Mestre Gutiérrez (1928-2021)
July 30, 2021 – Diario de Cuba: The Cuba of Tomorrow Calls for Institutionalism and Civic Education
27 de julio de 2021 – Diario de Cuba: Para la Cuba del futuro, institucionalismo y educación cívica
6 de junio de 2021 – Diario de Cuba: Ivette Hernández, la pianista censurada por el castrismo
24 de febrero de 2021 – Diario de Cuba: Mambises en Miami
18 de febrero de 2021 – Cubanet: La historia la escriben los que la escriben
29 de enero de 2021 – Cubanet: Ministerio de Cultura, ¿para qué?
16 de enero de 2021 – Diario de Cuba: José Sorzano: de exiliado a protagonista de la Guerra Fría
5 de enero de 2021 – Cubanet: El “caso Coppelia”: puesta en escena de una economía fracasada
13 de diciembre de 2020 – El Nuevo Herald: En Cuba, “Vendrá un cambio,” ¿pero cuando?
December 13, 2020 – The Miami Herald: In Cuba, “A change is gonna come,” but when?
April 8, 2020 – Smerconish.com: A Constitutional Pandemic?
2016 – El Nuevo Herald: El primer presidente de Cuba
2015 – El Nuevo Herald: Homenaje a una maestra ejemplar
Miami Herald, June 15, 2015
Cuba Sells Tombs
While reading the June 9 article Family stunned as tomb of Cuban patriarch ‘sold’ – the remains have been removed – I kept thinking about the lyrics to the song by Kansas: “All we are is dust in the wind.”
Some may find it horrifying and unfathomable that a family member’s gravesite is sold and their remains are tossed into a mass grave.
However, those who follow Cuban affairs understand that this practice is commonplace.
What everyone should understand, especially those whose ancestors are buried in Cuba, is that this degrading act is not only perpetrated against prominent families such as the Valdés-Faulis and Pedrosos.
This horrible act is perpetrated against anyone whose family members went into exile.
It is ironic that, as the flagpole that will presumably fly the Cuban flag at the Cuban Embassy in Washington is erected, the monuments to Cuba’s hallowed dead are being destroyed.
If the current regime will not let our dead rest in peace, what should we expect of their treatment of the living?
Daniel I. Pedreira – Miami
June 15, 2015 – The Miami Herald: Emilio Ochoa: An architect of Cuba’s 1940 Constitution
13 d febrero de 2015 – El Nuevo Herald: Una Asamblea legendaria
10 de diciembre de 2014 – El Nuevo Herald: Patrimonio saqueado
Fourth Estate (George Mason University), October 28, 2013, Page 15
April 10, 2010 – Sun-Sentinel: We must support the Ladies in White
Daniel I. Pedreira 