The writer Gerardo Fernández Fe published in Letras Libres an essay that uses the Cuban newspapers of Max Aub to reflect on Cuba in 2026. He quotes exiled journalist Ileana Medina, who ruled that “the life in Franco’s Spain was a garden with regard to what is Cuba today”. Fernández Fe concludes that in present-day Havana there is not even the hope that was on Spanish soil before the dictator’s death.
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The writer Gerardo Fernández Fe published in Letras Libres an essay that uses the Cuban newspapers of Max Aub to reflect on Cuba in 2026. He quotes exiled journalist Ileana Medina, who ruled that “the life in Franco’s Spain was a garden with regard to what is Cuba today”. Fernández Fe concludes that in present-day Havana there is not even the hope that was on Spanish soil before the dictator’s death.