The Cubavision Television network will soon begin broadcasting a new Brazilian telenovela: “Insensato Corazon” (Foolish Heart). Watching it, my grandmother will feel bad about the misfortunes of the protagonist and curse of those ne’er-do-wells who always make life impossible.
Read MoreToday is my birthday, the day when most of us are filled with joy and are ready to celebrate yet another coming year. But I have to confess that what I’m feeling is something between happiness and sadness. The feeling of nostalgia is what has overcome me.
Read MoreToday, thanks to the phenomenon of pirated CDs, the television series “Pablo Escobar: The Model of Evil,” has become the visual phenomenon that is shaking up the island.
Read MoreAdela’s in-laws are a typical Cuban couple of their generation…an elderly pair with shared hatreds. The mother-in-law still hasn’t forgiven the father-in-law for his infidelity committed with a black woman way back during their first years of marriage.
Read MoreI’m at the Dr. Salvador Allende Hospital in Cerro, a neighborhood in south-central Havana. It’s a hospital campus that should be the set of any period movie set in 19th century Europe.
Read MoreSometimes he’s dressed up like a woman, others times he’s placed naked with blacks eager to “sodomize” him. They dress him in butterfly wings or feature him half-naked and stunted under the legs of a muscular and almighty Chavez.
Read MoreEverything seems to indicate that the chronic water shortages suffered in parts of the capital won’t be solved any time soon. To cope, people have been creating alternatives such as “doing their do” in plastic grocery bags and then throwing it all into the garbage.
Read MoreEveryone needs spiritual strength for encouragement when things seems to be moving in the wrong direction. Religions, myths and even magic have always played an important role in this regard. In my case, I’m an atheist. I could say that this is by choice, but that wouldn’t be entirely honest.
Read MoreIn 2002, when all humankind was convinced that the world didn’t end in 2000, Cuba was conducting its population census. I imagine it was intended to see how many Cubans were still left on the island (a notion that always makes me chuckle).
Read MoreThe much heralded “Population and Housing Census” is now being conducted in Cuba under the slogan “We’re Counting Everybody.” It is said to have the aim of counting how many of us there are: Men and women, children, adults, young and old, blacks, mestizos and whites, as well as what condition people live in, etc.
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