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They Might As Well Close Down All of Venezuela

If María Corina Machado continues to move around all Venezuela, they might as well close everything down at once.

Cuban cinema of the last decade has been characterized by offering a discourse on life in marginalized neighborhoods.

I often find myself remembering my bicycle, and how it shrunk the distances in Alamar, the community east of Havana where I still live.

In these animated gringo-Venezuelan adventures, only the coyote’s usual fall into the abyss is missing.

We live in a city that’s being destroyed and we let be destroyed. No one seems to care beyond their property or their “private” establishment

A colleague was recently telling me about his problems with nearsightedness. I responded that I had problems with all types of vision…

My partner had been insisting for some time that I get a passport, and after much persistence, she convinced me.

When I worked as a guide at the botanical garden in Holguín, I had to take gardening courses. I remember one with particular fondness…

I don’t buy a lot of clothes and don’t have as much variety of designs and colors as I would like.

Many streetlights don’t automatically turn on at dusk and off at dawn. Making sure they do is the responsibility of the neighborhood.