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A New Year with the Same Old

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.

Teachers who protested a few days ago were accused of being traitors because they were asking for a decent wage…

Departures will intensify with the new 2-year sponsorship measure, of Cubans living in the US. Another way to leave & then opt for residency.

Sponsor is the most used word in Cuba right now, ever since the Biden Administration decided to implement a new visa policy for migrants.

At present, there are animal protection societies in Cuba that adopt abandoned pets. You can find them on Facebook.

When Fidel Castro took power we were told we would all be equals, but this promise never amounted to more than rhetoric used in propaganda.