Last weekend, I was invited to take part in a somewhat improvised excursion. A friend of mine who lives in Uruguay and his girlfriend rented a car for the trip. We thought having a means of transportation was enough set out on the adventure. (7 photos)
Read MoreI’ve been hearing that sleep is one of the most important activities in a person’s life since I was a little girl. “People who don’t get enough hours of sleep are always irritable or in a bad mood,” my grandmother used to say.
Read MoreLast year, my friend, filmmaker Yaima Pardo, brought to my attention how Cuban bills only showed men of war, and how the only black person that appeared on our bills (the 5 peso note) was General Antonio Maceo.
Read More“Luisi, it doesn’t get better than this!” one of my friends said, pointing towards the sign over the front door. We were outside La Zorra y el Cuervo, a jazz club located on Havana’s downtown 23rd Street, between N and O streets.
Read MoreWatching a film whose plot unfolds in Nazi Germany, I noticed how similar all autocracies are, how they are all grounded in a (distorted) sense of the good and, in order to establish themselves and manipulate the common substance of human dreams.
Read MoreIn this post, I would like to bring you up to date on the situation of prices at Cuba’s farm production markets and discuss the policy being applied by government leaders to solve the problem.
Read MoreFormal relationships between people of the same sex is already a reality in several countries in our region. Despite an official discourse that occasionally seeks to appear inclusive, this has not yet been achieved in Cuba.
Read MoreOn the morning of November 3, 1958, after saying goodbye to our fallen comrade we began to move away from the road and search for a place to set up camp again, as we would not be returning to our previous campsite.
Read MoreOn the night of February 25, The Dead Daisies played at Havana’s rock-and-roll venue the Maxim Rock. The much-awaited performance began at 9:30 pm. and the band was welcomed with euphoric screaming and thunderous applause.
Read MorePaulo Freire is one of most influential theorists of education of the 20th century. The gathering was an extension of the talk held at the Felix Varela stand in Havana’s La Cabaña fortress (the fair’s main venue), sponsored by the Brazilian embassy in Cuba.
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