Independence Is an Ideal and It Should Be Real Even in Cuba
We Cubans are tangled up on this island. And it’s not as easy to get out of the mess as many might think from abroad.
Read MoreWe Cubans are tangled up on this island. And it’s not as easy to get out of the mess as many might think from abroad.
Read MoreA long time ago, a psychologist friend advised me that, in moments of powerlessness I should go to a shooting range.
Read MoreTo remain indifferent to the events now occurring in the Cuban universities would be like betraying our own selves, abandoning our own selves
Read MoreMy aunt tells me, laughing—though what she’s talking about is no laughing matter—that she ran into a friend and they wanted to chat.
Read MoreLike a prisoner might write on the walls of her cell. Because my house is my home, but for several reasons it has also become my prison.
Read MoreGuillermo Cabrera Infante’s book Cine o sardinas (Movies or Sardines) wasn’t a clever wordplay to hook readers or a whimsical poetic phrase.
Read MoreI admit there are many moments when all I want is to disappear from here and never come back for anything in this world.
Read MoreWe were all there at our chosen spots for selling – the ones we grabbed, then said: “This is my spot and I want to work here.”
Read MoreI’ve decided to try selling my books in some new places. To try my luck, for example, at the Loma de la Cruz (Hill of the Cross) in Holguin.
Read MoreAt last, what we’d been waiting for over the past several days has finally arrived. “They’re already distributing it at other ration stores…
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