Good Tobacco Season and High Hopes of Fixing my Bathroom
This season, nature has been kind to tobacco crops in Mayari, Holguin. And my drying process is going well thus far.
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Diaries
Independent Cuban Cinema Snubbed by Sundance Institute
It catches my attention that, one of the goals of the film is to show the anti-imperialism of children, the topic of greatest interest of its director.
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Pretending, the Only Way to Get Ahead in Cuba
Somebody always used to tell me: “Be smart, be like that guy who was more of a “worm” than you, but he never said anything…”
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March 8th in Cuba is No Day to Celebrate
2020 has had a rough start… in January alone, I discovered there had been three femicides and two minors had been raped. Now, I’ve just discovered…
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Some of My Experiences with Cuban State TV
While one show was being filmed, a producer took me to an office which he had the key to. He wanted to talk to me about something…
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Young Cuban Filmmakers Withdraw their Works from Official Event
Gagging this group of artists, in a country that is visibly old, is like cutting the shoots off a tree, which will end up half-rotten or dead.
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Cuba: Crisis Within the Crisis
A few days ago at a store in the Chibas neighborhood of Havana, “Fami” detergent went on sale outside the rationing system.. this is what happened.
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Memoirs of a Gay Cuban Emigre
It’s going to be two years since I finally decided to take control of my life and escape a reality that was never mine.
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A Visit to the La Guira National Park in Pinar del Rio
It’s a unique experience as soon as you pass through its huge medieval-style door. A landscape composed of fruit and ornamental trees, gardens, parks…
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Long Lines in Holguin Amid Cuba’s “Temporary Situation”
The “temporary” crisis in Cuba isn’t living up to its name and is stretching out like the structural evil it truly is.
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