Eduardo N. Cordovi, Author at Havana Times

You Won’t Believe It!

Today I woke up feeling very pensive. Actually, I wake up more like this every day. I grabbed my ration book & went to get my daily bread.

“There is no better place than here” is a phrase that can be as dangerous and subversive as shouting “Down with communism!” on May Day…

Many think that “having the use of reason” or saying “since I have had the use of reason” is something that happened at a very early age.

There seems to be many alternatives for getting paid and that our state of technology is wonderful. But how sad, it’s not like that.

Humans shouldn’t have to sacrifice themselves so ideologies can prevail at the cost of public discomfort.

In Cuba, as in other countries, there is something like an unwritten code that determines that one should be scandalized by certain incidents

We talked about various issues regarding the dynamics of life. About some who had left the country & the reasons why many people leave Cuba.

Once I heard a story about two little fish who suddenly find themselves in the middle of the ocean. One asks the other…

I went to a friend’s house for the first time in two months. I stayed on the porch, enjoying the cool evening breeze while he made coffee.

Every day here in Havana, and I suppose throughout Cuba as well, we spend our time passing judgments and delivering sentences.