Lien Estrada, Author at Havana Times

Cuba’s Unique Breaker Switches

Many streetlights don’t automatically turn on at dusk and off at dawn. Making sure they do is the responsibility of the neighborhood.

It was Sunday and I decided to take a walk. During my stroll, I arrived where the Exhibition Hall in Holguín has been located for decades.

It was almost always open, almost always the same people were there. Quite a few, and many more men than women, of course.

Cuba, in its purported construction of socialism as an ideal society, thought, as Marxism asserts, that culture would replace religiosity.

My friend called me to tell me that her papers finally arrived. I congratulated her. We agreed to meet at a café the next day to say goodbye.

I returned to the luthier’s house to pick up my guitar, which he said could be fixed. It didn’t exactly work out that way.

My mother mentioned her sister’s upcoming visit from the United States. Instantly, I remember that I need new strings for my guitar…