New Bakeries in Cuba
Many families in my town have set up a counter and a shelf in their garage or doorway to their house and have set up their own bakery.
Diaries
My Encounter with a Gypsy
I’ve never believed in palmistry or reading cards, or snails or any kind of fortune-telling, not even in mediums or babalawos.
Mending or Making Bras in Cuba
You can find a bra at any market in any other country in the world. Yet this necessary women’s garment is out of many Cubans’ reach…
Getting Out of Bed on the Wrong Side
Trying to get anything done in Cuba right now is torture. I’d been waiting months to try to see a dentist, but there are never any resources.
Alberto’s Generation
Fidel was viewed as a kind of Messiah, the very embodiment of the Homeland. An infallible, divine presence who couldn’t be questioned…
“Amor Brujo” Video Musical
The show is 50 minutes long, but time flies by for viewers in their seats. tTe intensity of a well-known work that still left me speechless.
“Revolutionalizing the Revolution” & Diaz-Canel’s Continuity
Cuban president Miguel Diaz-Canel, recently came out with a tongue-twister, in one of his propaganda performances on social media…
What Was My July 11, 2022 Like in Cuba
I awoke on July 11 without any expectations, it was just a regular working Monday. Before leaving, I watched a video by a university student.
What Some Go Through
We sat around her table one night, as she regaled both myself and if I recall correctly – her daughter, with an unimaginably horrific tale.
Two Cubans on a Hunger Strike Demanding Rights
Both their suffering is a symbol of resistance and bravery, but I can’t stop but think that they are also bodies, bodies that could perish.