Times Change, Even in Cuba
A long time ago, a psychologist friend advised me that, in moments of powerlessness I should go to a shooting range.
Lien Estrada
Cuban University Students vs Cuban State Telecommunications
To remain indifferent to the events now occurring in the Cuban universities would be like betraying our own selves, abandoning our own selves
Blackouts in Cuba, a True Curse
My 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.
Simone de Beauvoir Taught Me That the Personal Is Political
Like 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.
Breakfast Is No Small Matter in Cuba
Guillermo Cabrera Infante’s book Cine o sardinas (Movies or Sardines) wasn’t a clever wordplay to hook readers or a whimsical poetic phrase.
In Response to the Question: Why Did You Come Back to Cuba?
I admit there are many moments when all I want is to disappear from here and never come back for anything in this world.
Was I Lucky to Have Been Brave?
We 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.”
Those of Us Still Standing in Cuba, Don’t Know What to Do
I’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.
The Rice Has Arrived, What Better News?
At last, what we’d been waiting for over the past several days has finally arrived. “They’re already distributing it at other ration stores…
With Holguin’s May Romeria Festival over, Will the Extra Blackouts End?
The Holguin tradition known as the May Romerias has ended. It’s a practice that began here in the eighteenth century – 1790 to be exact…