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When “Everybody Is Good”

I want to share several stories that are happening these days and that demonstrate the kindness of people, that is, of ordinary Cubans.

The Cuban Revolution Seen through the Eyes of a Commoner

I’d like to talk about the concept of “citizen”, today. According to the Greeks, you couldn’t be a citizen without being politicial.

Yearning for the Future

I wake up to make breakfast, like I do every morning. My daughter waits for it asleep, until I bring it to her bed. My husband helps me get things ready.

Now Is Not a Good Time

What happened with the phones didn’t come as a surprise. I went to watch one of the meetings when they would tell locals who was going to get one.

Are Self-Help Books Worth Reading?

This is the question I can’t stop asking myself, at least for two years now, after I lost both my sister and my mother in just four months of each other.

“There’s No Country Without Farming” Is Still Valid

“If the cooperative can’t meet production targets when there were some supplies, what can we say will happen now when we don’t have anything?”

My Social Distancing Lessons

We’ll get out of this together. We’ll get out of this with flying colors, never forgetting this time and the lessons that Life has taught us.

From Religious Fidelism to Oswaldo Paya’s Rebellion

Communism and Religion are opposites. They both have ideology at their heart, so they are incompatible.

The Chance to Reinvent Yourself

Until we accept that the only permanent thing is change, we won’t have understood the meaning of life.

The Urgency of Survival

Every morning, I wake up and enjoy the silence I’ve been longing for years, which is only interrupted by the sounds of Nature.