My First Job after University
After having completed difficult studies at the University of Havana, I now have the privilege of working for one of the most prestigious magazines in our country: Revolucion y Cultura.
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Diaries
Fallacious Argument for Getting a Haircut
Kabir is a young friend who is about to get kicked out of high school. He decided not to get his hair cut any more, but his school administrators won’t allow him to attend classes with long hair, a right only granted to female students.
Read MoreAn SOS for Household Light Bulbs
Little by little, the fluorescent tubes that used to light my house and my father’s house have proceeded to burn out. He has, in turn, replaced them with energy efficient ones. Now his evenings watching TV are colored by a bothersome light he put in the dining room.
Read MoreThe Story of a Sad Mother
On Monday morning I could hear the sound of my neighbor’s alarm clock as if it were in our house. It was 5:00 a.m. as Martha slid out of bed, discouraged, muttering to herself, “Another day of battle.”
Read MoreTriple Duty for Cuban Women
I can give the following example for specialists to analyze and understand many things about the relationship between couples in Cuba: apathy, male sexual dominance, but especially the double and even a triple workday of women.
Read MoreStudying medicine in Cuba and making a point at Stanford’s expense
The medical books I use in Cuba come from a variety of sources. There are Spanish translations of US published textbooks such as Harrison’s Principals of Internal Medicine. There are Spanish translations of Soviet Union textbooks such as Sinelnikov’s Atlas of Anatomy. There are also Cuban published textbooks.
Read More‘Enemy Mine’
What is now urgently needed is to defend, “with all and for the good of all,” the well-being of Antonio Rodiles, a Cuban who has chosen — with courage, creativity and public-spiritedness — to defend our right to a better country.
Read MoreThe Killing of Havana’s Ceiba Trees Continues
The chainsaws of Cuba’s Ministry of Agriculture have killed another ceiba in Havana. This time though, along with my friend Jimmy, I had the opportunity to talk with the person responsible for this latest murder.
Read More‘I’ am Very (Very, Very) Tired
There was once a people that was so poor and miserable that they didn’t recognize themselves as being such.
Read MoreTransculturation
They come here from Africa to study medicine. You can see them walking through the streets of Havana, though they pass by almost unnoticed since there’s not much difference between them and us. When they speak is when you realize their origin.
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