“Tell me, what’s the discussion here?” a young man was shouting and gesturing, while catching the attention of people on the corner of Zanja and Galiano streets. It looked like things were going to get ugly from the tone of his voice, when someone else suddenly responded: “I’m just saying what people are saying out on the street, what they are discussing.”
Read MoreLast Tuesday, I was on my way home at a time when the country becomes paralyzed: the sacred telenovela hour. Once again, it was dark. As taxis don’t adapt their routes to their customers, rather you have to follow the routes they impose, I had to get off at Avenida de los Cocos and walk to my house along the street with the Lazaro Pena primary school.
Read MoreIt’s September; the streets of Regla (across the bay from Old Havana) are buzzing again with the beginning of the school year. Near the dock entrance, people walk in haste, many of them remember Jennifer, “the girl who was killed”. She was only 23 years old and she had lots of plans for her future.
Read MoreThey didn’t all arrive together: they each had a time and a function: to make sure everything was calm, smear themselves in excrement and document the event. It was going to be a very simple action: once covered in excrement, they would hang up a sign: “Free Art. No to Decree-Law 349”, on Capitolio building’s steps.
Read MoreSuddenly I received a call telling me that they freed Ariel; I had not felt so happy for a good while. We still do not know how everything will be from the legal point of view, but at least Ariel can stop his hunger strike.
Read MoreFreedom, this concept that has been manipulated and abused so much over the ages, is still the driving force that gives principled men and women strength; this is Ariel Ruiz Urquiola’s case.
Read MoreA few days ago, I spoke to Andres, a neighbor from the Perico municipality in Matanzas province, who told me that the fire which took place on March 24th on Bernal Street, between Gonzalez and Infesta streets, was the result of a “jealousy attack”.
Read MoreThere’s been a scandal on my block for days now, Mochita and Nina, two female dogs who live at the chocolate factory are all worked up; it’s May, you know the drill. Male dogs come to blows, bark, chase after the new one who comes along following the females’ scent.
Read MoreThis mare is the apple of my eye, I look after her as if she were me myself. This is how Miguel speaks about cuquita, the mare who his daughter takes to competitions. For several years now she takes part in the Rodeo with cuquita, an event which some people define as an extreme sport while others call it tradition. (12 photos)
Read MoreAmong artists an admirable support for Luis Manuel Otero has generated; social networks have been active and we know that they can be a good tool even in Cuba, where few access them.
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