Daisy Valera’s Diary

Twenty-two years have passed since the events of Tiananmen Square yet we can still note an embarrassing silence here in Cuba.

The document insists on preventing spontaneity and improvisation in investments. Since it seems that we’ve had enough of that, now it will be necessary to see if that inertia can be broken.

In no part of this “historic document,” as all official journalists call it, does there appear the names of those who wrote the pamphlet or the delegates who approved the guidelines in the congress last April.

This is how touristic Havana begins, differing from real Havana, where instead of young campesinos on the land they’re importing immense quantities of food.

A while back, Raul Jimenez sent in a comment about one of my posts referring to cooperatives. He asked about the benefits of this form of organizing work in relation to the development of private businesses.

They allowed all those present who wanted the monster burned for a better world to write on the hard surface of the giant puppet.

As I’ve written previously, my life as a worker began not long ago, exactly one month and six days ago. With it there came in my mailbox a list of regulations that I had to comply with as an employee.

This Christ figure that blesses the Cuban capital is a customary tourist destination. To sit down and rest near its giant feet after climbing the Cabaña hillside has always been a normal and pleasant activity for me.

On Friday April 22, “Proelectronica” will be presented in the “Propociciones: For a Living Planet Festival” at the Salon Rosado de la Tropical in the Cuban capital.

The bitter years of the “Special Period” crisis will never pass for those who experienced them. I almost dare to assure that all Cubans born and yet to be born will never be able to rid themselves of the memory of those times.