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A Difficult Cuban Woman

They say there are people who come into this life with a sign that marks all their acts, but they also say that it’s difficult for them to get out of the vicious circles by themselves.

We Are Bigger and We Have Rights

As Granma is a publication that for so many years has flirted with silence, censorship and taboos regarding the truth, it struck me as strange that all of a sudden this new license was being granted.

Up until last week, several of my friends were waiting for the final outcome of the national volleyball team in one of those championships. I like volleyball, but it’s all the same to me if the Cuban team wins or not.

Cuba Online Classifieds Blocked

If the government wanted, it could develop the project and improve it legally with the appropriate taxes collected through the site. In this way anyone could simply access, search and buy what they need: the formula we all dream of.

A Stolen Rooster

A yell, a squawk, and then a bang, that’s all that was heard. Despite the speed which we made it to the back the thieves were no longer there, nor was the rooster in its cage.

Drilling Leandrito and Listening to His Stories

Leandrito isn’t that slow; it’s just that his generation has suffered a disastrous educational history. They’ve had to endure problems with mathematics ever since primary school, when they spent several years without math teachers.

Leon Trotsky, Padura and Me

Trotsky’s works especially filled me with arguments during my reality as a university student anxious for answers and solutions. He cured me of indifference and filled in the holes in the words “socialism,” “communism” and “revolution.”

Conflict Yes, But Also Respect

Here online, there is no irksome and inquisitive editorial advice from those who always want to rework your piece. Instead, it’s the readers, through their comments, who even end up telling the writer that he or she is mistaken in their focus or their outlook.

“Asere” Rings Among Many Cubans

Protests are heard from time to time over the use of the word “Asere” – presently one in the most popular ways in greeting among ordinary Cubans in informal circumstances.

Thalia’s Story

Thalia is a seven-year-old girl who doesn’t live with her mother or her father. Nor does she stay with her grandparents, uncles or any other relatives. Her family members aren’t dead, which is why she’s never stepped foot into an orphanage.