Today, May 31, is the date declared by the United Nations as World No Tobacco Day, and I think this deserves a comment. It will be a kind of testimony from my own experience, to encourage all smokers to give up the pernicious vice.
Read MoreMy mother was sweating buckets. An intense burning sensation in her chest was making her dizzy. She started to go cold and pale, and her lips took on that frightening purple tonality. Then, she passed out. That’s the beginning of the story.
Read MoreSurprisingly, the most talked-about news this month of May was not the crackdown on a supposed terrorist network operating within the country with macabre intentions. The incident that made the loudest splash this month was the academic fraud that took place during university entrance exams.
Read MoreFollowing the recent elections in Europe, I am left with more questions than answers. Among the latter is the impression that a good many citizens of the Old World – discontent over the effects of the crisis, the rise in poverty and the dirty tricks of their political class – have decided to vote for extreme-right parties.
Read MoreI am interested in joining the debate sparked off by the post “Uniformophobia” through this post – not because the author of the article in question is my son (who can answer for himself) but because of the criticisms one reader levels at his parents.
Read MoreFor her, love involves two people, no matter what their gender. As a teenager, she was interested in having boyfriends. She liked a boy in her high school and began having sexual relations with him. She was the first in her class who boasted of not being a virgin.
Read MoreFlowery spandex pants and blouses with open backs are invading the streets of Havana. The striped-shirt craze seems to be blowing over. Cubans seem to go insane over clothing and fashion, and the whole city seems to be one huge masquerade at times.
Read More“This is my livelihood, kid, this is my livelihood!” This phrase, spoken by renowned “dissident” Ricardo Boffil while being interrogated at Cuba’s State Security Department expressed the essence of counterrevolutionary activity in Cuba: a business that allows one to live well without having to work.
Read MoreIn this day and age, where we co-exist with an Internet that is too virtual, slow and expensive for Cuba, we have become accustomed to having readers that are, in some way, just as virtual as the web. She is one of my readers.
Read MoreNumerosos analistas coinciden en afirmar que la actual campaña por la presidencia de Colombia es la más pobre en ideas de los últimos tiempos y, a la vez, la que más ha polarizado al país entre quienes defienden la solución política o la vía militar para acabar con cinco décadas de conflicto armado interno.
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