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What It’s Like to Live in a Medical Superpower

“God tightens the noose but doesn’t strangle you,” keeps coming to my mind and he’s really going at it, especially in this medical superpower

I grew up in rural Cuba, my father was a vet, my mother a housewife, without friends or acquaintances to influence my love for art.

I didn’t understand why they were so determined not to want to help me? It’s their job, but in Cuba few people want to do their job well.

A fair like any other, where books – the fake star of these events – was cast to the back of our collective consciousness, like it always has.

I haven’t written for a weeks now about the adventures of being Cuban in Cuba. I want to apologize to the people who follow my diary entries…

There are aspects that I do not want to fail to mention, one of them is the way in which the number of femicides has grown lately in Cuba.

You need to be obedient and go unnoticed to make the most of the few opportunities the system gives you, in the state-led or private sector.

“The country is making progress and that hurts them”, or “better is possible”, are some slogans the Government is pushing in its fake press”

We reached the park, lots of families were with their small children, couples and friends… but what were they celebrating?

For those of you who don’t know the story, Aguedo Morales was a teacher born in Consolacion del Sur, who was killed in Nicaragua in 1981.