In response to Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez's question [1], Mariela Castro calls her the equivalent of a “cocky hen”, prompting Sanchez to ask [2]: “Does she believe that I do the work of a man because I demand rights and claim respect for political preferences? If to be a very delicate hen I must accept that a group of septuagenarians—all men—decide every aspect of my life, then I…will cock-a-doodle-doo like the rooster with the most hormones in the barnyard.”
Cuba: The Crowing Rooster
· Written by Janine Mendes-Franco
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