There is a very high recurrence of cancer in Mayari, which doesn’t seem normal at all. And, there aren’t any leads for people to investigate. On the Internet, I only found out that it figures among the 72 municipalities classified with a Risk I level, of higher incidences, and that Holguin province is above the national average (and surely the global average) and is on the rise.
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Even though the majority of Cubans think that Granma newspaper is just an alternative for toilet paper; and even though the credibility and reliability of its information is low because it focuses on providing justifications and not objective news, I must admit that I always try and read it.
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Saturday is the day you’re most likely to find food at markets where we live in Mayari, Holguin. It’s normal for vendors to save a bit on the side so they can sell it on this day.
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The Communist dream is to invent a “drug” to cure the “human disease” of freedom and democracy, or at least this is what their actions seem to tell us. If it wasn’t for this small detail, this problem, they would be able to govern forever and be the people’s Gods of Redemption.
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The situation in Venezuela is becoming more and more critical. Chavistas grouped under the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) are no longer democrats (if they ever really were once, and I believe they were), and have instead become authoritarian socialists.
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Another May Day rolled around and the Cuban government, which declares itself to be the Vanguard of the working class, made its workers march in every square across the country. They carried placards and shouted out cheers for the Revolution and its leaders.
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Wealth seems to be the enemy of our economic system, not poverty. And, poverty and migration seem to be the only two things that are sustainable.
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Shoes haven’t come into Mayari’s stores for over six months now. This widespread shortage unfortunately extends to the rest of Holguin province and the island, to a greater or lesser extent.
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It’s not only the Left that takes an authoritarian turn. The same thing plagues the Right when it feels threatened and its radical/tyrannical wing end up flourishing
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I recently had to make a lightning trip to Santiago de Cuba. The city seems to be reborn after renovations in the wake of the disaster created by Hurricane Sandy in 2012. Accentuated by Fidel Castro’s decision to have his ashes rest in Santa Ifigenia Cemetery.
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