Author: Yenisel Rodriguez

The Cuban state and government have deployed a mass media campaign to politically criminalize the Internet. The argument is that it is part of one of the strategies for political intervention by the United States into Cuban affairs.

Lately I’ve had the surprise of “discovering” people who I know on national television. Each one of those encounters has made me reflect in one way or another. Here’s one of them.

Santiago de Cuba has some of the best mangos in the country, if not the world. They’re the famous mangos del Caney, which are also known as “bizcochuelo” (or sweetbread) mangos.

Finally “someone” realizes that men are much more than domineering sex maniacs. Now we will be able to express — without fear of whipping up feminist suspicions — our concerns about the subtle discrimination and marginalization that we too suffer.

Cristina is from Seville, Spain, but while working here in Cuba she doesn’t want to be looked at as a “yuma” (a foreigner). She knows that with such an image she’ll always remain distanced from our reality. She doesn’t want to be like this, but she doesn’t know to accomplish the alternative.

After the inspector has marched off, everyone is left dismayed. A lone thought occupies their minds: how far is this control going to go?

In the first days of March the ammunition dump located at the military outpost in Santiago de las Vegas, Boyeros municipality, blew up. For more than 5 hours explosions from projectiles of different calibers rocked the surrounding area.

Today I want to illustrate an issue that has been widely discussed in the Cuban media: highway traffic accidents associated to the frequent use of private trucks.

How can you give a dignified funeral to a deceased pet when you live in an overpopulated city?

Iriel, a campesino from Holguin Province, can’t find grazing land for his two rather lean cows, Pinta and Linda. This is a serious concern since these animals ensure milk for his family at a time when a pound of powdered milk costs up to 30 pesos – exorbitant by Cuban standards.