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Is Healthcare in Cuba Free?

The story of this post begins just over 15 days ago when a friend’s grandmother, 85 years old, fell in the street and fractured her hip.

I think I’ve liked cats ever since I used to watch the Tom and Jerry conflicts on Cuban TV. I’m talking about the original 1950’s series.

Normal, we are in a dictatorship, right? That’s how dictators act, if they call for elections, they eliminate their opponents.

It was Sunday and I decided to take a walk. During my stroll, I arrived where the Exhibition Hall in Holguín has been located for decades.

Saturday night, after an intense week of work, I feel like I need and deserve to go out for a while, listen to nice music…

Back in January I asked our readers a few questions about our publication now in its 16th year. Today I want to share some of the answers.

I felt at home; I see no significant differences in Spanish culture compared to Cuban culture. I don’t even need to acclimate. (11 photos)

It was almost always open, almost always the same people were there. Quite a few, and many more men than women, of course.

In Cuba, as in other countries, there is something like an unwritten code that determines that one should be scandalized by certain incidents

Cuba, in its purported construction of socialism as an ideal society, thought, as Marxism asserts, that culture would replace religiosity.