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You Don’t Free a Country by Strangling Its People Even More

Between the communists who have Cuba kidnapped and the Trumpists who think the solution is to further punish the people, anyone gets fed up.

Through social media I learned that the brave young people from the project “El 4tico” (the little room) have been detained.

Over the decades we’ve known only losses. What more is left for us, what other terrible things are still to come?

I tell myself: If there were people who survived those Nazi concentration camps, it means that I can survive my Caribbean communist camp.

Miracles don’t arrive surrounded by glowing halos and fireworks; sometimes they come so subtly that we don’t even notice.

A friend of my mother’s stopped by the house and kindly shared some multivitamin supplements with her.

The workday begins with a scene that is repeated daily: mountains of accumulated garbage on the corners, sidewalks and yards…

Cubans have been emigrating to all parts of the world. The family separation is very painful, leaving behind parents, siblings, & children…

And it occurs to me that human progress is a false dream, a cruel scam. Could it be that we took the wrong path?

In Cuba there is no aspirin to cure the cancer eating us alive, but there is no shortage of slogans that poison us every day.