Author: Isbel Diaz

Cuban LGBT activists have forcefully responded to Oscar Cuevas Romeros. Weeks ago that television viewer sent an open letter to the TV program “Pasaje a lo Desconocido” criticizing Mariela Castro Espín and the Cuban health care system.

An interesting controversy was stirred up by the open letter sent by Oscar Cuevas Romeros to Cuban journalist Reinaldo Taladrid. Several LGBT activists on the island have written to counter the arguments of this homophobic citizen.

Along with a group of environmentalist friends we sought to verify the environmental impact of the dump of the street 100, to the west of the Cuban capital. The attempt was not completely successful, when being expelled of there for the “owner” of the place.

Last Saturday I went to the Lisa Special Government Agricultural Market to buy vegetables. I got there exactly at the moment some inspectors were detecting several violations in the sales stands.

The time we’re provided in this life is what’s most precious. What we do with it and who we share it with is a personal decision.

The news of the elimination of the surcharge on the US dollar joyously sent from email account to email account. Nonetheless, exchange rates at Cuban bureaux de change (CADECAs) remain unchanged.

A US judge has suspended the enforcement of the “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy that had prohibited military personnel from asking about the sexual preference of its members and prevented recruits from revealing if they were gay or lesbian.

This past November 6 marked the first anniversary of the “March against Violence” that was led by a group of young people along Havana’s 23rd Avenue.

I had discovered another nature lover: Alberto Muñoz, a former Cuban medal winner in wrestling. Now with the years weighing on his shoulders, he is determined to make his humble garden flourish.

Officials of the Cuban Institute of the Art and Film Industry (ICAIC) arbitrarily prevented me from accessing the Last Thursday forum, a monthly setting for debate organized by Temas magazine.