Ammi’s Diary

Many children, like my son, have no idea what the legendary slogan: “pioneers for Communism, let’s be like Che” means.

I can’t forget my 7-year-old son’s words after being in lockdown in Cuba, for 45 days.

Ammi tells a friend’s story to illustrate the contrast between the call for Cuban doctors de get a Nobel Prize with the situation at Cuban hospitals.

Mr. Police officer, are you my friend? was the question on a Cuban TV ad when I was a little girl, and quite a few of us wanted to wear the blue uniform.

A lifelong friend and I were in Old Havana, in one of those lines that you don’t even understand why people are lining up…