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The Farce of Elections Under Dictatorships

The cases of Nicaragua, Cuba and Venezuela are excellent examples of how dictatorships attempt to justify their never-ending rule.

Every day here in Havana, and I suppose throughout Cuba as well, we spend our time passing judgments and delivering sentences.

“I really enjoy researching about computers. I also want to write articles about video games, anime, series, and movies that I enjoy.”

Hours pass, the sun intensifies, and the group of people grows. A man over 60 approaches, seems to know me, and indeed, he does.

“January’s rice is here!!” Marta shouted at the top of her lungs, while she climbed up the stairs in our apartment building.

It was a friend’s birthday, and I wanted to visit her. I left Vedado mentally and monetarily prepared to spend money on a collective taxi…

My parents and the ocean, days in paradise, distant echoes of a better country, far away from the disaster we’re currently living through.

Both here in Cuba and on the other side of the Florida Strait, we hear the cheers of demagogy that speak of a heroic people.

Love is that perfection. But no one said it was free. Everything in life has a price that is not always money. It’s time.

Like every week, last Sunday I went to visit Mom. Like every Sunday, the journey becomes a real adventure.