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The Land We Want to Live In

I feel happy every time I encounter a curb cut, or any other accessible modification to the architectural barriers on the streets where I walk

Many think that “having the use of reason” or saying “since I have had the use of reason” is something that happened at a very early age.

As we entered the airport, we were pointed to three different lines: US Citizens, US residents, and those arriving with humanitarian parole.

These human masses in waiting share the same fears: connection failure, running out of money, or a power outage. Any of these can happen…

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…