Articles written by Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo

Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo

Cuban writer (Havana, 1971). Bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature. Resides in Manhattan.

Tati Allende and the Cruelty of Cuban-Style Socialism

Film the present so that the past doesn’t change tomorrow

Coming from Cuba only to fall into the same trap

In defense of the Zanjón

Castrismo Covid

The communist Cuba of Christopher Columbus

Why do I like Donald Trump?

A Cuban should be whoever they want to be

Cuba as the Epicenter: Until the Documentary Always

The video blackmail of the G-2

Compassion for Edmundo García

The true face of our people

When Castro speaks for Christ in Cuba

Comrades, what did Fidel eat...?

State and Disease: Cuba, the North Korea of the Caribbean

Michelle Obama, my beautiful one

My personal Yolo Bonilla

Let Netflix never remove La Red Avispa

Afro-Cubans: Cubans and George Floyd

From Epstein, Weinstein, and other average guys

Killing women

Fidel Life Matters

Leinier, Leinier, tell us what else we need to do

Hate presidents, love tyrants

With Trump and for the good of all

The Ariel Case: The Revolution That Destroys the Revolutionaries

Daniela Vega and the fantastic castrism of the Chileans

Miguel Díaz-Canel, hand-picked dictator before the end of the dictatorship

From the bugle, hear the suicide

Trump's voters dream of José Martí

I feel sorry for the poets who sell out

In favor of Cuban cultural exchange

Fidelito: the first suicidal Castro

Courageous but Cowardly: The Piper and the Rats

Rights yes, impudence no

For the freedom of Cuba: never apologize, never explain

Clarity and capitalism

He/She voted!

To die far from Cuba. To die, far away, in Cuba

The Castro-style guajira against Halloween

Solidarity with Yuli Gurriel: So what if he's Asian, so what if he's Cuban?

One thing the Cuban communism could not destroy: neighborhood barbershops

The end of imperialism: tomorrow's professionals are depressed today

The great loneliness of Cubans in democracy

Little sweetheart of my heart with which I live

Of the cyclone and other unforgettable forgettings

Cuba hanging by a thread

To be Cuban is to be alone

Exile does not exist, my love

Pornography and Revolution

Díaz Canel doesn't matter: for Cuba, only freedom matters

What can the sun do against a people so sorrowful?

First August 13th without Fidel Castro

The world has always been deaf to Cuba

The Negative Cuban Identity of José Lezama Lima

Memoirs of a Little Cuban Who Wasn't Born with the Century

Maleconazo: August 5th or Castro's downfall

Music, memory, and other wonderful milestones

Venezuela: there is no socialism without social death

Remittances versus Revolution