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A Poet Without a Home in a Socialist Land

A stressed-out friend visits me. He tells me that a family has invaded his house. The poet Ghabriel Perez, explains what he did next.

Clothing, like almost everything, and I am talking about the most basic needs, has been a challenge in the midst of daily life here in Cuba.

I totally understood the Captain. It happened to me. It happens, almost surely, to many men and women in today’s Cuba. It’s a reality.

In fact, when we stop seeing each other, the first thing we think is that the person has probably already left the island.

A friend is visiting me and makes a comment while laughing. We’ve gotten used to laughing at everything, even when it’s not exactly funny.

I belong to a project in Holguin which was created by a group of young people dedicated to charitable work. Here I’ll share a little about it.

This summer, I wanted to treat myself by visiting a place completely unknown to me: the Guisa Botanical Garden.

The difference from the 1990s crisis is that there is an abundance of supply, which is incredible. Now the conflict is money.

I was conducting a survey & took a bus arriving at a place that seemed like a camping facility (a little like a hostel) I hadn’t known before

He was my coworker at the Botanical Garden. He had just graduated in Biology from the University of Oriente, in Santiago de Cuba.