Dariela Aquique’s Diary

I was left perplexed with that anecdote. This woman, being a teacher, had established an analogy between the arguments used by her peers and passages from a well-known historical event in our struggle for independence.

There has still not been any official announcement concerning the enactment of new laws regarding immigration policy, but it has been leaked that in meetings with party activists and with agents of State Security that in the coming days the media will be reporting the status of the updated laws.

Whenever we hear about these videos games in the news, it always seems they’re referring to some foreign phenomenon, something happening elsewhere. We see classic lines like: “The evils of the capitalist world are suggesting to youth a universe filled with horror and sensationalism.”

In the early years of the Cuban Revolution — with the creation of so many offices, departments, organizations and ministries to implement the strict and bureaucratic control over individuals — this method of using abbreviations was exploited without end.

Busy and centrally located Heredia Street in Santiago de Cuba contains much of our history – especially that which relates to culture, since still located there is the house of Jose Maria Heredia, the writer of the classic song “Niagara.”

Early this morning, when I was opening the windows of my apartment, I saw a young man throwing a piece of wood at the lavish foliage of a Majagua tree.

In pre-revolutionary Cuba, these functions were widely practiced and some attractive women changed their fates as a result of them. After 1959, these events gradually disappeared. The government eliminated what it called such remnants of bourgeoisie life.

Jose Miguel Gomez was a soldier and a Liberal Party politician who was elected as Cuba’s second president, an office he held four years (1908 to 1912) until he resigned.

For some time I’ve been a passive spectator of the debate flying back and forth between Elio Delgado Legon (a recent writer with Havana Times) and another colleague and personal friend Alfredo Fernandez. Plus, I’ve read the many comments sent in from readers regarding each of the writers’ posts.

I heard a report by journalist and sports commentator Julita Osendi on the TV news recently. She was a alerting us about how the Cuban population was losing its passion for baseball, which is designated as the national sport.