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Vulgarly Classic VI (video)

This may be the most vulgar and intimate part of my series with this name. I have edited this installment feeling very down.

About Cuba’s Water Shortages and Other Needs

I live in a town in the province of Pinar del Rio with just over 6,000 inhabitants, where shortages are proverbial. Its little markets or vegetable stands are rarely ever stocked. It’s one of those “lifeless” towns, as people say.

Social Media Challenge with the Cuban Flag

This is an invitation for every Cuban to take a selfie with the patriotic emblem. These photos, in which natives from the island, of all ages, women and men and even from different countries where they reside, have taken over social media with the unusual development of spontaneity, wit and joy.

Toc Toc: an Opportunity to Laugh at the Theater in Havana

Obsessive compulsive disorders cause a lot of harm. It makes people uneasy to watch others who suffer from these kinds of disorders… although this time, it takes the play written by French playwright Laurent Baffie as its basis, which made its debut with Cuban theater company A teatro limpio.

Farmer and Journalist, A Way of Life

I’m from the countryside; the Guayabo community in the Mayari River valley. My neighborhood is named after one of its tributary streams, which creates the highest waterfall in Cuba when it comes down off the mountains. There is really good land here, among the most fertile in the country.

Cubans Laughing in the Face of Adversity

Every afternoon, when I finish work, I head to the train station. There, alongside hundreds of passengers, a dirty, uncomfortable, slow train, which never leaves on schedule by the way because when it isn’t being checked over, it’s waiting for the engineer, or the engine has a problem, etc.