I know that it’s not uncommon for people in other countries around the world to have two or even three jobs. I know that a lot of them only have time to wash, eat, sleep and begin another day that will be the same as the one before.
Read MoreHere in Cuba we’re currently being overwhelmed by the 16th Pan American Games. Almost unexpectedly, it has been like a real and contemporary setting where the historical empathy that the Mexicans feel for us Cubans has been reintroduced with new life.
Read MoreA friend of mine from back in senior high school (what we in Cuba call “pre-university”) had become very ill. Back in those early days we used to share tastes in the music of Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson, to name just a few.
Read Moret’s not that I have blind admiration for Laura. I lost sympathy for her when on a broadcast of the program Razones de Cuba I heard her supporting the coup in Honduras, speaking directly with the leader of the coup.
Read MoreThere’s a curious Russian anecdote about a police officer who arrested a man for talking about the dictator in public. He was taken prisoner and sentenced to be shot. Stalin, who used to sign the execution orders, was curious about the charges against this individual.
Read MoreThe videos that show what appears to be Gadhafi being lynched are impressive, and they’re sickening. A human being who is slaughtered is a human being who is slaughtered, even if they were a serial killer.
Read MoreNo one is a saint here. While we condemn our players who emigrate, banning them, they’re received on the other side as “victims,” and those who accept these “poor fugitives” are seen as “saviors.”
Read MoreSince my earliest elementary school experiences, I remember my teachers teaching us love for our homeland, national culture and all those things that were said to be 100 percent Cuban.
Read MoreThe image of a Baracoa of paradisiac exoticism returns to find refuge in the online pages and broadcasts of our media and in the clouded lens with which our government journalists observe Cuban life.
Read MoreThe general population of most countries does not have the tools to prevent or control ambitious and hazardous projects that the technocratic elite undertake in collusion with governments.
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