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In Cuba Betrayal Can Be Found Anywhere

I don’t like baseball; it just doesn’t go with me. I’m reminded of this each time a fan tries to explain to me the rules and I just can’t connect with the sport.

Oh, Mama Ines, Oh Mama Ines…!

“Mama Ines” is the character in a well-known song that has transcended its time in many voices, but the unsurpassed version is the one by “Bola de Nieve” (literally, “Snowball”), the artist born Ignacio Jacinto Villa.

Education in Cuba: Competitive Games vs. Cooperation

Competing. Competing and trying to win. This is the idea behind several programs directed at children shown on Cuban TV. There are others that — though they could cultivate creativity — end up generating frustration.

Trades, the Family and School in Cuba

My father is a barber. A few days ago he sent me his equipment so that I could follow in his footsteps. Though he knows I’m not very good with the symmetry, he asked me to try nonetheless.

Osman Aviles and Unexpected Joy

My colleague Osman Aviles is a young writer, essayist, poet, editor who is paving his way to joining the Cuban intelligentsia.

Internet Access at Cuba’s U of H: A Matter of Chance

An important part of college study these days is being able to reference various websites. In my case, for example, this need is greatly influenced by the absence of updated printed texts relevant to contemporary art.

Open Doors on Cuba’s Future

In my preceding post, I made reference to this absurd episode of Cuban political history in which — not at the barrel of a canon but in a state of shock — our society constitutionally endorsed its subordination to an authority standing above it: the Cuban Communist Party (PCC).

Reporting on Cuba for Those Opposed

Reporting on Cuba must be an agonizing task for those opposed to the rule of the Revolutionary Government. These voices, often originated in South Florida and echoing in the halls of the US Congress, routinely oppose travel to Cuba by Americans on the auspices that any money spent will support their antagonists.

Cuba’s ‘Criterios’ Magazine: Anniversary and Harassment

Over the last several days, news has been circulating inside and outside the island about the complaint raised by Desiderio Navarro. It appears authorites at the Havana airport are holding the issues of his most recent edition of “Criterios” magazinel.

Cuba’s Chemically Aged Kids

Those of us born in the 1970s makeup perhaps the generation that was most affected out of all those born since the Cuban Revolution. We were children in the ‘80s, a decade pregnant with slogans promising a “futuro luminoso” (bright future) that never came.