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Dignity vs. Toxic fear

Cubans suffer from pathological fear. It isn’t the natural fear that protects humans from the real dangers that Nature poses.

Rock Fan in My 40s

Santiago de Cuba, my hometown, is one of Latin America’s most musical cities.

“What Will We Do with the Fridge?”

I can’t forget my 7-year-old son’s words after being in lockdown in Cuba, for 45 days.

Cuba’s Food Problem With or Without the Pademic

It’s useless to sit with your arms crossed or to try and cheat your stomach when it rumbles to let you know that it has reached its limit.

A Cuban Aspires for Nobel Prize in Literature…

Most know him for his character Mario Conde, a police officer who aspires to be a writer and is in no way like the archetypes and predictable detectives…

Can a Cuban Author Self-Publish their Work?

While the world seems to be dancing like a dog with lice: feet up in the air and wriggling against the floor, I finished writing a book.

It’s Not All Applause and Nobel Prizes

Ammi tells a friend’s story to illustrate the contrast between the call for Cuban doctors de get a Nobel Prize with the situation at Cuban hospitals.

Hunting Down Toothpaste in Today’s Cuba

Toothpaste is highly sought-after in today’s Cuba. The reality is that it hasn’t completely disappeared, but has just gone missing from “normal” stores.