Author: Yanelys Nuñez

When the lights dim to begin the projection, something happens: he will quickly move over to a seat next to some woman sitting alone.

Shoe repair services are appreciated by many people I know. The lack of good quality shoes and the impossibility of an acceptable range require average Cubans to get their footwear mended time again and time again.

As part of the state exam I’m required to take to complete my degree in art history, I had to review the works of many Cuban documentary photographers who are professionally active in the contemporary world, though the beginnings of this date back to 1980s and ‘90s.

Reading the novel El Mendigo bajo el ciprés (The Beggar Under the Cypress) by Cuban writer Humberto Vidal, I was reminded of the bitter moments of my time in the rural school we were sent to.

In many of the films made in the United States, especially the more commercial ones, there’s often a protagonist who flees their depressed emotions by making a great shopping trip. In our country, for the Cuban on the street, the very opposite occurs.

For Cubans, traveling in our own country to see its beauty is a veritable utopia. The difficulties lie in the relatively high costs of transportation, accommodations, food and leisure activities themselves.

After living in Old Havana for 14 years I’ve gotten to know some of the features that distinguish it and many of the problems that deeply affect it. This is what I’m bringing before you today – the issue of NOISE.

The El Rapido fast food cafeteria on Monte Street is only one piece of evidence that the Cuba that’s peddled abroad is much more complex and painful than it appears.

Ricardo Alarcon, president of Cuba’s National Assembly of Popular Power, in a televised excerpt from the recent National Party Conference gave us new data on the need for greater freedom of information.

As part of my fifth year major in art history, I took the course “Workshop on Fine Arts Criticism,” taught by specialist Adelaida de Juan. In that class, we attended three major art exhibitions last year.