I discovered him sitting next to a garbage can on a street in the Vedado district. He was chewing something that he seemed to have pulled out of that grimy overflowing container, with the filth was almost surrounding him.
Read MoreThe pastor who barricaded himself inside his Havana church this past August, along with 60 others of his followers, still remains in that place of worship, which is also his home.
Read MoreIn 1976, the Cuban people (or what appeared to be the majority) committed the political blunder of passing a constitutional referendum conceding supreme power to a single party.
Read MoreLast week, Esther, a friend of mine for years, received news that was the best that any ordinary Cuban can hope to get. She then gave me a big hug, one that was as if we hadn’t seen each other in years. She cried, laughed, and was finally left speechless.
Read More“If there was only cheese!” This is how Cubans express their eternal impatience with their taste buds. Justified or not, this demand assaults us at every instant – sometimes as diners, and other times as hosts.
Read MoreToday marks the 158th anniversary of the birth of Jose Julian Marti Perez, Cuba’s “national hero,” “the apostle” or the “most universal of all Cubans.” These have been the titles given to the “teacher” throughout the course of the island’s history.
Read MoreThe behemoth oil platform came into view from the Havana shoreline last week and I’m still trying to figure out what Cubans feel about its arrival.
Read MoreNews agencies echoed the bitter statements Reina Luisa Tamayo – the mother of the late Orlando Zapata, who died in Cuba on a hunger strike in 2010. She exposes the neglect and deprivation that she and her family are suffering after a seven-month stay in the US.
Read MoreGiven the constant degeneration of moral values that we’re presently confronting, the university is a place that has become a valuable spiritual refuge.
Read MoreIn “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism”, Naomi Klein notes that in the middle of the 20th century, the CIA funded psychological research aimed at deconstructing and infantilizing human minds using electroshock treatment, drugs, sensory isolation, the monotonous repetition of signs and other techniques.
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