A few years ago, discussion began on radio and television sports programs about the desirability of making the All-stars Game picks in Cuba more democratic, as was formerly done on the island.
Read MoreThis is an attempt for this Cuban woman to give a kick — perhaps still too timidly — against the wall of silence (or grief) that has been erected here. It’s aimed to strike back against our obligatory, necessary, wise, imposed or self-enforced silences.
Read MoreAfter a year of being away from Caracas, I’m back. This time though, I’m not attached to any official job – so I can breathe a certain air of freedom whenever I decide to, not simply when my boss decides on it.
Read MoreOn page eight of this magazine on tourism in Cuba and the Caribbean, I came upon a headline that read “LGBT Tourism.” I was blown away, stunned, amazed. Plus there was this hyperlink for viewing related items.
Read More“People who work honestly, whatever their jobs, they deserve to be well regarded. No work is denigrating!” Those were the words my brother and I used to hear from our late grandfather.
Read MoreAccording to anthropologists, “rites of passage” are those special moments in the lives of human beings when a man or woman undergoes a change in their social status (religious, legal, institutional…).
Read MoreFor me the Cuban Revolution is a completely exhausted historical act, the result more of the inability of the then young leaders — today octogenarians — to fulfill their promises than due to the United States embargo.
Read MoreThe first time I saw the tree, from three blocks away, I felt that I needed to share such beauty with my friends. I was 14 years old and in high school. It had a hypnotic beauty, giant in its green innocence, yet a veteran of so many springs.
Read MoreIt’s no longer something merely suspected; our national sport is being sabotaged.
Read MoreThese books constitute true and amicable contributions to thought in a country where it’s still taboo in certain places to talk about racial identity, inequality or question some intellectuals and leaders of the past and present.
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