Silvio and Pablo in a Corner of My Room
Two of the greatest living Cuban poets are engaged in a public brawl today. As for me, who is among that public, I’m so hurt that that I don’t know what to think anymore.
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Diaries
Let’s Put Away the Machineguns and Talk, Ubieta
He is determined to “expose us,” attempting to make us out to be cyber-dissidents, anarcho-capitalists, cyber-mercenaries, friends or subordinates of the US Interests Office in Cuba, on the payroll of a foreign power, and/or collaborators with the “ideologists of subversion,” etc., etc.
Read MoreCuban Witches, Broomsticks and Moths
Last night I was visiting at the home of one of my co-workers. We had some coffee with cinnamon and suddenly — like out of a Hitchcock film — we heard a piercing scream. The woman of the house had discovered a “bruja” in her bedroom.
Read MoreThe Village of “La Peña”
In my previous entry I tried to describe my adventures on a trip that I just took in the countryside of Pinar del Rio Province. This time I’d like to talk about a village there called La Peña, its people, its scarcities and how life changed in that little town.
Read MoreHypocrisy in the Cuban Media
Ever since I was little I’ve been witness to the characteristic falsehoods of my country’s media, whose influence we’ve been vulnerable to for more than a half century.
Read MoreSports Chauvinism & Cuba’s Media
As is custom, the Cuban press is up to its same old thing antics. I was left dumbfounded the other day when I heard all of the praises being made during the sports segment of the TV news.
Read More“The Diet” in Cuba
Diets in Cuba — in addition to being nutritional regimes that people follow to reduce or increase their body weight and to stay in shape — are assignments of extra food whose amounts vary according medical prescriptions.
Read More‘Cultural’ Advertising in Cuba
New space for girls *SEXILESB* today sat: Las Vegas (Inf and 25) CV:50MN fr 10pm to 12. After, 3 CUC. Dancers and guests. Don’t miss something special *just glamour*
Read MoreWhat Did You Do to Us Zeno?
I got myself into a big mess with the students at the faculty of Nuclear Sciences the day I explained to them that the paradoxes of reason were not resolved.
Read MoreNot on God’s Side or the Devil’s
The Edmundo-Pablo controversial has been hot and heavy in the online press of late. For some time, the insidious writings of Edmundo Garcia have made me think of him as a sort of tropical Mata Hari.
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