According 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.
Read MoreAround 9 o’clock last night, while I was passionately reading an autobiography, my youngest daughter interrupted me. With the face of a good little girl, she announced: “Mummy, I’m hungry.”
Read MoreLike many Cubans, I went to La Caridad’s sanctuary (“El Cobre”) without promising anything. Maybe it was because I was there on a day when mass wasn’t being conducted, but what I came upon was the grayest church I’d ever seen.
Read MoreNonetheless, this “father of the Cuban cartoons” doesn’t have a monopoly in terms of quality. A new generation is emerging who are somehow heirs of that flower pollinated by Padron with his creations. .
Read MoreI’ve entered my second year at the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) in Cuba and I can’t say with any certainty at which stage (or stages) of cultural adjustment I’m currently in.
Read More“Don’t you remember me? I’m Reymundo’s nephew. I was one who had the accident with the machete hitting the electric cable,” a young man asked me at the market.
Read MoreWhen I head out to the agricultural market to buy a few items, I have to pass by a bakery located just a half block before my destination. I always come across the same situation: a cart pulled by a horse, driven by a man with torn and dirty clothing.
Read MoreThe heralded tabloid sized pamphlet “Customs norms that all travelers should know” went on sale a few days ago at Cuban newsstands and post offices. The customs tabloid “flew out the door” in a few days.
Read MoreIn 1959, the same year as the Cuban revolution, Soviet scientists began implementing a project to tame silver foxes on a farm in the ill-famed region of Siberia. From among the initial population they bred the meekest animals, repeating this procedure with each subsequent generation.
Read MoreBuying it already processed is not the same as growing it, if they are so afraid of it. If we negotiate petroleum with Venezuela, why not negotiate coca with Bolivia?
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