On December 19, the oficial Granma newspaper published an anonymously written article with the sensational title “Crime Increasing Among US Youth.” This article stated that a third of the young people in that country had been arrested at some time.
Read MoreMy mother’s scooter is red not only in color, but also because it belongs to the socialist state, that being an abstraction of what we are all supposed to be a part. That’s why the scooter doesn’t belong to her.
Read MoreWhat is catching my attention during this Christmas period is a series of good news and proposals for change in the lives of Cubans. The government is becoming “Papa Noel” (I think they would consider calling it “Santa Claus” to be “ideological diversionism”) and it is bringing gifts to the people.
Read MoreThe pilgrimage of the “Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre,” a religious figurine discovered 400 years ago and known as the patroness of Cuba, came to my Havana’s Santos Suarez neighborhood. Not since the capital city’s baseball team won the championship have so many people turned out to celebrate such a popular event of national significance.
Read More“The sun never sets on our lands.” This phrase, inherited from colonial empires, is now legitimately assumed by protesters. The sun is shining and an earthquake is generating seismic waves that are shaking the foundations of those old empires.
Read MoreAny moderately intelligent people would soon figure out they were being duped, especially if the device was so obvious to the point of underestimating the reasoning ability of those being “fooled.”
Read MoreIn Cuba it’s customary to mop the floors of houses using a frazada (a medium thick, towel-sized cloth). This is one of the most common and never-ending duties in Cuban homes, thanks to the dust that inevitably blows in.
Read MoreOne of the most common disorders among Cubans who have been or are builders is sacrolumbalgia, followed on the list of importance (not in order) by lumbar deviations, vertebrae separations, shoulder dislocations and others.
Read MoreI became interested in this event when I started college, back in 1994. Before that I was only mildly interested because it wasn’t a major part of the cultural environment in the poorer outlying areas of town (like where I grew up).
Read MoreEveryone knows that Cuban baseball is not enjoying its finest moment. One problem that’s been fully discussed is the imbalance between its pitching and batting capabilities, with the latter possessing an overwhelming advantage.
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