There are fake coins circulating in the streets of Havana. That’s not some metaphor, you understand. A while ago someone pointed it out to me. Coins valued at 1 CUC (about $1 USD) should now be checked whenever one receives change.
Read MoreAll of us had great expectations when we got the news that the recruitment of Havana police officers would start being done from here in the capital itself. When I say expectations, I mean that people thought there would be changes in the broadest sense of the word.
Read MoreOn a visit I made there recently, I realized the importance and the social impact of this project as well as its role in calling the attention of institutions, specialists, psychologists, philosophers, historians, students and anthropologists to this community in need.
Read MoreFor some time I’ve been a passive spectator of the debate flying back and forth between Elio Delgado Legon (a recent writer with Havana Times) and another colleague and personal friend Alfredo Fernandez. Plus, I’ve read the many comments sent in from readers regarding each of the writers’ posts.
Read MoreFor many years I’ve been hearing my father say “it was the consumption of meat that enabled humans to develop their brains.” I’m sure that he obtained such information from his vast readings, always based on his understanding of Marxism.
Read MoreMaking Us Feel Like Kids is my answer to the question of what the police are seeking when they stop us and ask us for our personal documents while on the busiest streets in town?
Read MoreI recently did a little time traveling. I thought back to almost five years ago, when some of us crazies took on the task of “hooking up” a group of autonomous initiatives we’d been working on.
Read MoreA friend of mine from Europe asked me who I thought were the direct beneficiaries of the recent papal visit to Cuba. She wanted to know if any of the masses of people living through such rough times here received some concrete benefits — however small.
Read MoreIn many of the films made in the United States, especially the more commercial ones, there’s often a protagonist who flees their depressed emotions by making a great shopping trip. In our country, for the Cuban on the street, the very opposite occurs.
Read MoreI heard a report by journalist and sports commentator Julita Osendi on the TV news recently. She was a alerting us about how the Cuban population was losing its passion for baseball, which is designated as the national sport.
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