In the presentation led by Dr. Jesus Guanche (who is a professor, ethnologist and researcher), he pointed out that he had in his hands a reference book that covered the origin and evolution of this culture, as well as its contextualization in Cuba.
Read MoreIn Cuba, “having a ‘chino’ behind you” is an expression to describe bad luck. It refers to day-to-day luck, which is what’s needed to get through daily life. It’s the kind of luck that translates into good transportation, easy access to food or the good functioning of the institutions on which we each rely.
Read MoreRecently an unsuspected medium appeared in Cuba for explaining the meaning of anarchism and its organizational principles. That does indeed take some explaining since little is known about this “exotic” theme here on the island.
Read MoreTwo 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.
Read MoreHe 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 MoreLast 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 MoreIn 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 MoreEver 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 MoreAs 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 MoreDiets 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.
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