What It’s Like Waiting to Publish in Cuba
For Cubans who live on the island, it is difficult to obtain anything. At least for me, it costs twice as much effort.
Irina Pino’s Diary
Remembering Cuban Artist Servando Cabrera
The National Museum of Fine Arts wants to “revere him” with the exhibition: “Servando Cabrera, remembering the erased.”
Rabid in Cuba
There’s a cat that comes to sleep in my building lately. It’s white & grey with a big head. It almost always has its face covered in scratches
On Father’s Day
I’ve spoken about my father’s human qualities in previous articles. These included helping anyone who needed it.
What’s Going On With Us?
The other day I ventured to the La Rampa movie theater. I arrived after walking quite a few blocks under the scorching afternoon sun.
Mozart’s Requiem at the Havana Cathedral
I could feel Mozart’s spirit, that white light and its shadow. An intimate, healing vibration, despite the sadness embued in this music.
What Cuban Women Have to Put Up With
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.
To Leave Cuba or to Stay
Departures will intensify with the new 2-year sponsorship measure, of Cubans living in the US. Another way to leave & then opt for residency.
First Day of 2023
We shouldn’t feel sorry for ourselves, we’re still here, Magaly told me – a friend from my teenage years who used to live in my neighborhood
In the Christmas Spirit
I remember an image from my youth. I see my sister and me, looking for dry branches in the flower beds to put together a Christmas tree.