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Mantua, a Remote Town in Pinar del Rio, Cuba

I traveled to Mantua, Pinar del Rio’s smallest municipality last week. With difficult access, in the far northwestern part of the province.

Hoping not to bore you, I want to tell you about some of the things Cubans are talking about the most on the street these days.

Duannys Moreno Sánchez became known in Cuba during the sad days of the fire in the supertankers of Matanzas in August, 2022.

These are the phone conversations between two friends who were determined to help each other our in these hard times in Cuba.

Bukele said that you can walk anywhere in Cuba at 2 AM without being in danger, that it’s a very safe country in his opinion.

Everyone I run into says the same phrase every New Year for as long as I can remember: “This year is going to be worse.” Are they masochists?

I visited a friend on December 28, who had just come from Spain, and I spent the afternoon with her, seasoned with an excellent wine…

Cuba is our country, the one we never want to leave, but we have to in order to survive, to have a future, to help those who remain behind.

I remember my classmates from primary school. There were 12 of us in the class, now there’s only three of us left in Cuba.

That’s when all those “egalitarian” slogans come rushing to my mind, which are as fake as this System and its doctrines.