Nearly three weeks after it became widely known that the Spanish energy company Repsol had come up empty handed in its oil drilling efforts off the coast of Cuba, after the entire international media had squeezed the news dry, the Cuban press stooped to partially and manipulatively informing the people of the island of this finding.
Read MoreThis past Wednesday, the Cuban television program “La Mesa Redonda” dedicated a broadcast to commemorate the sports hero, boxer Teofilio Stevensen who died on June 11th. I had expected a program that would show highlights of the personal and sports life.
Read MoreThe entryway to the Havana suburb where I live has been differentiated from the look that characterizes a community distant from the urbanity of the city’s downtown.
Read MoreUnfortunately, in our country it doesn’t matter much if you’re a professional or a technician. Someone who has studied or works harder doesn’t live any better than anyone else.
Read MoreIf you are in Havana from June 21 to 23 of this month, you shouldn’t miss the “Clic Festival” (to be held at 4606 1st Street between 46th and 60th streets in Havana’s Playa neighborhood).
Read MoreCuban TV surprised me again, this time with a report on Spain. It was about people there who sometimes have to commit a crime: the illegal occupation of dwellings.
Read MoreI have less than 100 hours left before I will leave the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) as a boarding student. The coming academic year I will be sent to Havana City, most likely to the Salvador Allende Hospital, where I will complete my medical training.
Read MoreIf this post were to have an appropriate title for a radio soap opera, it would be: “The Guillermos of My Life.” But it doesn’t. I’m writing because I just found my old beat up ID card, and on the line that says Father you can read “Guillermo Jesus.”
Read MoreWhen “Amelia” had her first fit of anger, I was scared. She screamed at me, banged on the wall and stomped out of the house to vent her rage at the first person unfortunate enough to wind up in her path. After a while she came back, but without realizing that she had lost more than an illusion.
Read MoreNative Americans maintain a vast knowledge about curing diseases with plants and substances from their natural environment. For centuries, large pharmaceutical companies have been appropriating and adapting this knowledge to the Western paradigm, to the degree possible.
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