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My Friend the Communist

My friend is a communist, but we are friends. We don’t have to be the best of friends because friendship varies to many degrees.

Defensive Reaction or No Reaction? Do Cuban women deserve a better protection or is it enough to say things are worse elsewhere?

The children shouted “Look, the King Is Naked”. In today’s Cuba, ¿could we use some innocence instead of mistrust? I’d like to think so.”

Cuban bureaucracy, already very time consuming and frustrating, is even moreso during a pandemic. Here’s what my neighbor is dealing with.

Excessive bureaucracy is a disease caused by Cuba’s control oriented system, collateral damage facing the island’s population.

Ever since she was a little girl Paula Henriquez never had good experiences with alcoholic beverages. In her diary post she esplains why…

Camila is six. She doesn’t know how to express the way her life has changed. She wants Covid-19 to leave and for her mom to return.

Esther Zoza tries to explain why the new Covid-19 outbreak in Havana, once again stuck in the community transmission phase.

Caridad brings us her dairy of a typical day in Venezuela where people are not only dealing with Covid-19 but also persistent blackouts.

Osmel Ramirez asks: Do we really have farm cooperatives in Cuba? “Nobody cooperates with anyone anymore or it’s very rare.”