Given the way baseball is now played in the World Cup, our country’s National Baseball Commission seriously trained a team for the first time in a long time. This has raised hopes among our people, who remain dependent on that “circus” to maintain their illusions.
Read MoreAt least we had a carbonated soda produced in the country. We might end up with capitalism, but it would be “sovereign” capitalism: with cola produced in Cuba, with sugars and flavors arising from origins of independence and anti-imperialism.
Read MoreStill being passed from PC to PC is a file that’s being called “The Compendium of Information on the visit of Pablo Milanes to the United States.” Right now Pablo doesn’t seem to be pleasing either side.
Read MoreRelated to my master’s thesis, a friend gave me a mobile phone. He saw that my thesis addressed the issue of “unexpected uses” of the New Technologies of Information and Communications (NTICs), so he wanted to keep up with my research.
Read MoreA few months ago I saw a documentary titled +600º, which deals with coffee and the screw on coffee makers that can explode. The documentary addresses the disappearance of the metallurgic foundries in San Jose de Las Lajas, a municipality south of the capital.
Read MoreAn interesting point about Decree No. 292 is that in the transaction process, although it requires the buyer to submit a list of the motor vehicles they own, there’s no limit on the number of vehicles that can be purchased.
Read MoreIn my hands I have one of the brochures prepared by Cuba’s ideo-bureaucracy to discourage young people from using drugs and for helping teachers with that daunting task.
Read MoreThe taxi stops for a woman who flagged it down. She’s old, though it’s hard to say how old – but she’s got to be over 75. She’s carrying a cane with some colored ribbons wrapped around it. But what catches one’s attention even more is her overly bowed leg, probably from birth.
Read More“Bajo el Mismo Sol” (Under the Same Sun) is probably not the best soap series that’s ever come on Cuban TV, but it is one of the best in terms of reflecting the Cuba of its time.
Read MoreI’m sure that if one was to survey a good number of Cubans, the overwhelming majority wouldn’t know anything about the phenomenon of “blogging.”
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