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Owen

Cuban Journalist

Owen is a pseudonym for a Cuban journalist.

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Amelia Calzadilla is surrounded by the press on a street in Havana on June 13, 2022, after leaving the town hall of El Cerro, where she was summoned by the authorities after posting a video on her social networks denouncing shortages and alleged shortcomings of the government.

Amelia Calzadilla is surrounded by the press on a street in Havana on June 13, 2022, after leaving the town hall of El Cerro, where she was summoned by the authorities after posting a video on her social networks denouncing shortages and alleged shortcomings of the government. © Yamil Lage/AFP via Getty Images

Independent Journalism in Cuba: It’s Illegal – But It Happens

Improvised newsrooms are beginning to take shape: a phone, a notebook and someone willing to tell the world what is happening.

1 May 26

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