Author: Regina Cano

Certain people at his job were implementing the Managerial Improvement Program (a kind of Cuban Taylorism). Aided by the advantage of managing others from above, they were using this to get rid of those who either weren’t a part of their camarilla (clique) or who they simply didn’t like.

As life expectancies have increased, many humans have been gradually deciding that they need to do reconstruction on what ultimately droops or what they physically lack.

There is a feeling of serenity when you cast a line and prepare to listen to the sea – at least until a tug from a fish indicates that the time has come for the water to reveal another of its gifts. However this is something difficult to realize on the open sea for most Cubans.

What is now being demonstrated are the consequences of the most recent wave of emigration from Cuba, that which has occurred over the past 15 years.

The bus stop was full of people though it had already begun to get dark. A black woman in a red dress came into the area, walked around, and finally situating herself a little distant from everyone else.

Currently the same “marginal” conditions exist for the great majority of Cubans on the island, but those in power appear to have clearly had another intention.

In my neighborhood, the survivors of various acts of abandonment form a pack of 20 or 30 dogs that wander around during the night and lay around near my neighborhood by day.

And to ensure that such references are not overlooked, associations were created years ago to bring together almost everyone — which included the great majority of Cubans with disabilities — who were seeking to balance the rights of people as much as possible.

One fine day during this painful 2010, a young man came to her apartment with an inspector’s card and told her that he was going to fine her for breaking up the “public streetscape.”

The supposed maintenance of our urban thoroughfares has brought its consequences like every attempt at regulation approached reluctantly and with little enthusiasm.