As part of the “Evangelization” being carried out by the highest office in the Vatican, the island will be visited by the supreme pontiff, which will make him the second pope to do so, following John Paul II’s 1998 visit.
Read MoreMy friend “B” has problems with her mother. Basically she has problems living with her. Her mother goes through life with a certain dose of frustration for not having achieved everything that she set out to and makes life impossible for B.
Read MoreThe Latin Recording Academy in the USA elected Shakira as the most significant figure in the music industry in 2011. I couldn’t help thinking back to the early songs of that daughter of a country at war.
Read MoreAll too frequently I experience moments in which I don’t feel human. Every day I feel like one of those race dogs you occasionally see in American movies.
Read MoreRacial differences are being felt in Libya. Today bitterness and inequalities between ethnic groups and districts are realities experienced by this people following the demise of Gadhafi. Displaced black groups now wander about the streets of Tripoli.
Read MoreThat’s a joke of course; the Cuban Five were never my favorites. I felt bad to see them trapped in the teeth of that macabre machinery, as well as ad nauseam over the government’s constant public relations campaign around them.
Read MoreThough I’m a fervent follower of most sports, soccer — which is one of the greatest and most profitable spectacles in the world today — doesn’t arouse great passion in me.
Read MoreNot long ago my neighbor Robin, who has a lot in Havana’s Playa municipality, was cutting the tall grass and taking care of the rubble that had been dumped on his property. He plans to build a house there for his children.
Read MoreHe suggested making a critique of capitalism and modernity beyond the classical propositions of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud. He included in his analysis a decided questioning of the so-called “real socialism,” bitterly re-interpreting the abbreviation “USSR” as “four letters, four lies.”
Read MoreThe love of the mother for her child is unconditional — according to Cubans — as are the child’s feeling toward its mother. Yet in more than an insignificant percentage of instances nowadays, this image is broken and the pieces of the picture go flying.
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