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.
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Diaries
The Far-Left and Far-Right against Cuban Civil Society
It’s upsetting to see how many Cubans support Trump’s suffocating policy. Cubans abroad looking at us with the same ice-cold stare the US gov. does.
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Please Don’t Sell Us Any More Promises
I have to admit, I was left quite surprised. In spite of so many decades of promises and upbeat speeches, I still haven’t lost the ability to be amazed.
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Masks in Cuba: An Imposed and Dangerous Trend!
It’s a good and bad thing, at the same time. It helps because the few people who should have been wearing a mask and didn’t, are now being forced to…
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To Line Up or Stay at Home?
The new Coronavirus has put us in a tighter squeeze than before. If it was already hard to get a hold of food it is even harder now.
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Someone is laughing at Venezuelans…
Those who know Havana would never believe that a spokesperson would wake them up with the news of the annihilation of a mercenary invasion.
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The Murder of a Medicinal Tree in Cojimar, Cuba
It was a very old tree that had never bothered anyone. It is known here in Cuba as the Sassafras tree. It’s delicious scent gives away its medicinal properties.
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The Anatomy of a Lockdown
In Chinese, especially in the Mandarin dialect, the words “crisis” and “opportunity” are written with the same two Chinese characters.
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Mamut Hunters and Life in Cuba
Eating breakfast is alien to many Cubans. Or maybe I’m wrong, a cup of coffee could be considered breakfast.
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Personal Experience of Fighting My Mother’s Disease during COVID-19
In the early days of April, COVID-19’s appearance in Mayari was close at hand; and the first positive case would be identified at any moment.
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