Berta has lived in Mexico for several years. From there, working hard, she has found a way to help her family. Every so often she visits her mother here in Cuba, but this last trip wound up being unforgettable.
Read MoreI remember that when I was a little girl, I liked to walk around outside our apartment building and search through the grass for treasures that chance would place in my path: a piece of gold-foil paper, a button in a peculiar shape, a piece of a toy… (8 photos)
Read MoreIn a country of utopias and paradoxes like Cuba, we dream about what we can’t have, and we reject what would allow us to advance. As for the much-discussed issue of transportation, it’s the same situation, and its effects on our lives are as follows…
Read MoreI had the opportunity to visit some sessions and listen to the performance-style poetry readings, a trend that — because of social and cultural circumstances — the Caribbean is now being forced to assume, despite it having reached its peak elsewhere back in the 1950s.
Read MoreSome young kids of around six and seven years of age were surprised as they dragged along pieces and parts of a property-line fence through a walkway in one Havana community.
Read MoreA few months ago I interviewed a young woman who has a disability and is battling alone in her life. Mercedes suffered paralysis in her legs due to a fever she had when she was a child. Ever since then she has struggled to avoid being left bedridden.
Read MoreThe first two sessions took place under the general slogan of the event — “@uto-organizing Ourselves?” — which made explicit the concern for technological connectivity (@) and leadership from below, from “ourselves.”
Read MoreThrough remarkable work that began in the 1980s, Abascal seeks to document moments of a society rich in customs, myths and traditions.
Read MoreThe Sixth National Critical Observatory Social Forum took place last weekend to discuss self-organization in Cuban society. However, the sessions couldn’t be finished at the state-supported institution that served as the meeting place. (21 photos)
Read MoreI don’t think of myself as being one of those people who want to live detached from their feelings. Rather, I think that the passion for the game of baseball is encoded in human DNA and is a healthy self-cure for homesickness.
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