When I go down the street and look up, what I see are dogs. Up to now I haven’t seen any of them jump on anybody, leaping from the roof to the sidewalk. If I’d have seen that, I’d be afraid of those dogs barking from above. But I never have.
Read MoreNot too long ago I read an article which presented the thesis that if cellphones had existed in the age when Romeo and Juliet was written, the work wouldn’t have had its fatal ending.
Read MoreEver since I was little my friends used to say I was headstrong because I always went against everything. The truth is, though, I don’t think I’m like that at all. I only stand up for my ideas, my principles and my preferences – tooth and nail.
Read MoreThe first time I heard Janis Joplin, her voice came from a VEF 206 (the stereo system from Eastern Europe that was in many Cuban homes. I didn’t know who she was, but her sound remained etched in my memory.
Read MoreWith increasing frequency and belligerence, the Cuban art world produces lucid voices that defend autonomy, social justice, national sovereignty and personal liberty as part of an emancipatory promise made to the island.
Read MoreA grove of casuarina trees was completely cut down this past July 11. This happened in the coastal village of Santa Fe, to the west of the Cuban capital. The action was carried out by a crew from the Ministry of the Interior (MININT), leaving the area’s residents in no less than a state of shock. All they could do was realize their impotence in preventing such devastation.
Read MoreIn November, general “elections” will be held in Nicaragua, that small Central American nation so close to Cuba’s heart. Etched in my subconscious are those revolutionary ballads that were heard here like broken records as a result of the victory of Sandinistas over the tyrant Somoza.
Read MoreThe policies designed in the ‘80s by the Cuban government to in some way accommodate intellectuals consisted of providing them with certain privileges and “some rights” (very limited ones) to expression in certain frameworks.
Read MoreMacrobiotic diets are winning more followers every day in Cuba since it turns out that simultaneously feeding and maintaining one’s health is the premise of this eating regime created by the Italian sculptor Mario Pianesi.
Read MoreAccording to unofficial media here, yesterday a trial began — behind closed doors — in which 14 people (among them three Italian citizens) are implicated in the death of a Cuban junior high school student.
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