Lien Estrada

When I worked as a guide at the botanical garden in Holguín, I had to take gardening courses. I remember one with particular fondness…

It was Sunday and I decided to take a walk. During my stroll, I arrived where the Exhibition Hall in Holguín has been located for decades.

It was almost always open, almost always the same people were there. Quite a few, and many more men than women, of course.

Cuba, in its purported construction of socialism as an ideal society, thought, as Marxism asserts, that culture would replace religiosity.

My friend called me to tell me that her papers finally arrived. I congratulated her. We agreed to meet at a café the next day to say goodbye.

My mother mentioned her sister’s upcoming visit from the United States. Instantly, I remember that I need new strings for my guitar…