Osmel Ramirez

Word quickly got around Mayari and the population’s concerns and stress, relating to the real fear of becoming victims of this pandemic, began.

This season, nature has been kind to tobacco crops in Mayari, Holguin. And my drying process is going well thus far.

The “temporary” crisis in Cuba isn’t living up to its name and is stretching out like the structural evil it truly is.

Horse-drawn wagons and bicitaxis are the main means of transport in Mayari, Holguin, a municipality of 105,000 inhabitants…

I was already a man, although still quite young, when I discovered Jose Marti. The real Marti that is, in his own words…

Everything here in my community is linked to tobacco farming; it’s the main source of income for a large part of the population, both directly and indirectly.

The government talks about increasing national production vs. imports but in practice the agricultural policy often goes in the opposite direction.

It’s a phrase that presdient Diaz-Canel uses as a slogan: “Thinking like a country”. It would be great to do this. But we all must, and in every regard.

Femicide came to mind as the subject of this article when I recently listened to a news feature on Canal Caribe.

When I watched that obviously manipulated video about an opposition leader, Jose Daniel Ferrer, it made my stomach turn and made me ashamed.