Not too long ago, I went to visit the family of a friend who had passed away recently. From what I saw and was told, I concluded that life in our country’s countryside has changed greatly over the past 60 years, ever since the Revolution triumphed on January 1, 1959. So much so that the difference between countryside and city is now only ever so slight.
Read MoreNeighborhood and workplace discussions and debates about the new draft Constitution, which will govern the country after it is revised and approved, are being held across the country, from August until November. Millions of copies were sold nationwide so nobody goes without reading it.
Read MoreThinking back to my fondest memories, when I was just a child, I didn’t imagine how tough the reality was in the country I lived in. I think I remember everything I told my mother I wanted to do when I was less than 8 years old…
Read MoreI have visited the city of Regla, across the bay from Old Havana, on many different occasions. It’s a municipality with various places that hold its history; Lenin Hill figures among these: the first place where tribute was paid to Vladimir Ilich Lenin in Latin America. (10 photos)
Read MoreEarlier this month, in the first few days of October, there was an Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) meeting in Colorado, USA. Cubans had a space within this session to report the most recent human rights violations in our country, which go by the name of “Criminalization of social activists and journalists.”
Read MoreIn the ‘70s, when the world was still being amazed by everything, mysteries like the Bermuda Triangle recreated the same atmosphere of uncertainty that the Cold War created, which had reached its third phase by then with man walking on the moon and the end of the Vietnam War.
Read MoreOn October 10th 1868, the Cuban Revolution began and as a result, it has just turned 150 years old. The Cuban people’s struggle for their freedom has undergone different phases, depending on the historic context at the time. It kicked off with the first Independence war against the Spanish Empire and continues today against another Empire’s attack…
Read MoreAriel Ruiz Urquiola, a scientist who was a professor at Havana University, which he was expelled from because of his ideas, came under the public eye after he held his first hunger strike, as a form of protest because medicines were missing which his sister Omara Ruiz Urquiola needed as part of her cancer treatment.
Read MoreBefore arriving to the island, I distinctly remember being told, “Cuba puts you in another level field. You come to find the world in the island” and as I sat in a room full of Latin-American left winged guerrilleros those words echoed in my head.
Read MoreRepression is horrible, inhumane and makes us slaves. It inflicts fear and pain on its victims, but it also degrades the person who gives rise to it, in a direct or indirect way. I feel repressed; my wife, my family. I have colleagues, friends and acquaintances who feel repressed.
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