Cuba’s Anti-Philosophy Army in Action
There are thousands of them disbursed throughout all the schools throughout the entire country. They don’t wear uniforms but they have uniform brains.
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Diaries
A Matter of Interpretation
There is another type of totalitarianism that is exercised by political rulers, and its foundation is social. These rulers impose not only a system but an ideology, where it doesn’t matter if it’s erred or if it’s what the population wants to believe. It’s the one that’s established!
Read MoreGoing to Cuba: The Traveler
He lives in Miami but travels to Havana often. He left Cuba with his two brothers on a raft in the 90’s. However the stories of the voyage cooled the desires of more than one person here.
Read MoreGetting Married in Today’s Cuba
About a month ago — for the first time in my life — I went up the stairway to what we call a “Marriage Palace.” There in the hall a group of small business people rushed at me with all types of cards.
Read MoreThe Promised Land that Sometimes Isn’t
For the majority of Cubans who live in this country, Havana is a chance to make an important change in their lives. Here one can make good money, get a good house and — and if it’s pertinent — they can find someone to help them leave the country; those are some of the ideas that emigrants to the city bring with them.
Read MoreSantiago de Cuba on Foot
Guide: Hey, looks like it’s going to rain…
Chorus: All the way to Santiago on foot…
Guide: Getting carried along, you’re going to make it…
Chorus: All the way to Santiago on foot…
The guide: Oh baby, you’re so fine…!
Chorus: All the way to Santiago on foot…
Drugs Are a Political Problem
I believe the gist of the matter revolves around the capacity of such substances to alter one’s consciousness, and in this way too they can serve to change the social order and the structures of power.
Read MorePedro Luis Ferrer Defends Freedom of Speech in Cuba
“If we don’t say what we think, we can’t defend this country,” said Pedro Luis Ferrer before those who listened to his music with delight at the Mella Theater. Those words stirred a deafening applause in the hall.
Read MoreChange Makers for Cuba’s Bus Stops
“You lose 20 and win 40,” touted this almost 50-year-old man. Nice looking and well dressed, he was standing at the stop for the “P line” bus, the heaviest trafficked route in the capital city.
Read MoreThe Pre-Rafaelesque Beauty of Young Cuban Women
There was a typically English current of the art that flourished during the Victorian epoch (in the 19th century); it was in the middle of the effervescent capitalism of the industrial revolution. It was the pre-Raphaelesque current.
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