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Cuba’s Revolutionary Defense Committees Are On The Way Out

On September 28, 1960, the Committee for the Defense of the Revolution (CDRs) were founded, and they have just marked another anniversary.

I can say that I have more than once been part of that informal group where we shared complaints about life…

September marks the return to classes throughout the island. The beginning of an authentic torture for many Cuban parents.

This lapidary phrase was uttered by a friend, completely shaken by the recent disruption of blackouts.

Our pharmacies don’t have endless lines because people feel like it, it’s because the daily realities on the Island are not children’s games.

So many times, I have asked myself the “whys” of so many things. That Saturday afternoon that felt like Friday, I asked myself…

In the very heart of El Vedado, Havana, on the corner of 17th and E, rises a mansion that seems frozen in time.

Many Cubans suffer to some extent from “anthropological damage,” which theoreticians define as “damage to the human condition as such.”

My neighbor, a friend and a person I consider a good man, has landed a job at the Customs’ Office that many would envy.

Life is measured in steps. I came to this conclusion while swatting insects and clutching my fan during a long blackout night