Osmel Ramirez

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.

During his recent visit to Argentina, Cuban president Diaz Canel hinted about a new gathering with the island’s diaspora in this coming April.

Anselmo isn’t the real name of the farmer who inspired me to write this article and take photos of his house and animals. But, that’s unimportant. (10 photos)

When the unusual rains in August damaged my cassava field that I had sowed, everyone told me to plow it up and sow it again.

If we want a better country, we have to fight for this country.

I really like agriculture, but more as a hobby. If I do it commercially, or to make a living, it’s because tough economic times force me to.

Cuba’s new Constitution is as totalitarian in nature as the last, it’s a fact. However, something has changed and it would be in our good interests to take notice of it and use it when moving forward.

Diaz-Canel’s most recent speech at the National Assembly made me reflect upon what’s going on in Cuba, but from a different angle.

On October 10th, while Parliament and its Communist Party lawmakers met in a special session to elect or appoint the president and vice-president of the country, with the new nomenclature promulgated in the renewed Constitution, I was marking 700 days of being “regulated” (grounded).