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Halloween and Havana’s Maxim Rock Club

For most Cubans, Halloween is just an occasion to dress up and have a good time. If the costume is something terrifying, even better.

Sometimes, you have to choose who to spend your free time with, in the midst of an existential limbo that tears away at us slowly…

After 10 years outside the chess world, I got ready to play since my profile is still at the FIDE (International Chess Federation).

On Sunday the primary elections of the opposition parties in Venezuela were held. The hard work of candidate María Corina Machado bore fruit.

The ridiculous nature of this island makes humor a part of our armor. It’s the easy way Cubans have found to expose the situation today.

There was a robbery at my bodega store, a few days ago. That’s the neighborhood store where people purchase their rations.

They reached the main bridge. He thanked the driver and crossed the highway. Several people were clustered together under the bridge.

Dariel spent the weekend at his wife’s parents’ house. They ate together in the bedroom that evening, watching a reality show.

For months in Cuba there have been difficulties obtaining certain medicines in the pharmacies. One I know about with certainty is Enalapril…

But the Palestinian people in Gaza are a victim of the Hamas Party, on the one hand, and also a victim of Israel’s ruthless reprisals.