Isbel Diaz

A great report on Cuban television stirred up comments among people. It was about an intensive and extensive soya production program being undertaken by the Military Agricultural Enterprise and that employs Brazilian technology.

It was around eight o’clock in the evening, and the park where the cadaver of my ceiba tree now lies was dark. In the dimness, a silent fire grew. The base of the tree was in flames.

Jimmy has been the first one to fulfill his promise: to plant a tree on his birthday. He did it this past February 5 along with a group of friends, teachers and students from a school in his community.

Cuban LGBT activists have forcefully responded to Oscar Cuevas Romeros. Weeks ago that television viewer sent an open letter to the TV program “Pasaje a lo Desconocido” criticizing Mariela Castro Espín and the Cuban health care system.

An interesting controversy was stirred up by the open letter sent by Oscar Cuevas Romeros to Cuban journalist Reinaldo Taladrid. Several LGBT activists on the island have written to counter the arguments of this homophobic citizen.

Along with a group of environmentalist friends we sought to verify the environmental impact of the dump of the street 100, to the west of the Cuban capital. The attempt was not completely successful, when being expelled of there for the “owner” of the place.

Last Saturday I went to the Lisa Special Government Agricultural Market to buy vegetables. I got there exactly at the moment some inspectors were detecting several violations in the sales stands.

The time we’re provided in this life is what’s most precious. What we do with it and who we share it with is a personal decision.

The news of the elimination of the surcharge on the US dollar joyously sent from email account to email account. Nonetheless, exchange rates at Cuban bureaux de change (CADECAs) remain unchanged.