Cuba: Carnival Time  · Global Voices
Janine Mendes-Franco

“It is a time to shrug off the slogans, the shortages and the frustrated expectations.  Dancing is a magnificent way of forgetting.  And so we will have a festival along the same perimeter where, fourteen years ago, Havanans demonstrated their discontent in a social explosion”: Yoani Sanchez looks beyond the gaiety of Cuba's Carnival.