Selling Clothes to Survive
Alfredo sells tennis shoes, socks, shorts and T-shirts, all at pretty high prices. Sure, their name brand goods, to be specific they’re all by Adidas.
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Diaries
Improper Giveaways in Today’s Cuba
The news featured a story about how employees at a printing company in eastern Cuba were working three shifts a day in an extraordinary effort to print 169,000 copies of the book The Bolivian Diary of Ernesto Che Guevara.
Read MoreWho Alienates More?
On the little screen today, they showed scenes of the Chilean student uprising at its height. Am I being the victim of another spell cast by the media? Possibly, but what I saw fascinated me.
Read MoreTanya: A Cuban Singer & ‘That Man Is Crazy’
To be a rock fan in Cuban society in the 1980s was like being the son of the Devil, or of God. It was all the same thing; at least for my parents it was all the same: God, rock or the Devil.
Read MoreCuba-US Rift: Fairytale Consequences
Ever since I was a little girl, on isolated occasions I used to hear — in a depressed tone — family members talk about an aunt of mine. For some strange reason that I wasn’t able to understand, she lived outside of Cuba.
Read MoreCuba’s UN Vote Unknown to Cubans
The UN Council of Rights Human recently adopted a resolution taking a stand against discrimination among people by reason of their gender identity or sexual orientation. The Cuban press flatly ignored the decision, even though the national delegation voted in favor of it.
Read MoreHomophobic on a Havana Street
She screamed: “Come on! I’m telling you to come on! Come on and stab me here!” The screams, a mixture of hysteria and powerlessness, paralyzed me there where I stood.
Read MoreA Conservative Utopia for Cubans: ‘Paradise City’
Today some Cuban politicians and educators would say that they respect the values presented in the series. But does there exist such a city or anything like it in Brazil?
Read MoreCuba: Another Historiography Is Possible
Last Friday, I was talking with a young Honduran historian who was referring to Cuba’s Republican stage (1902-1959). She simplified that period by comparing it to how she sees Panama today: a paradise for gambling and sex but with a government that is failing to provide its citizens a dignified life.
Read MoreStarting My Own Business in Cuba
Since the issuing of licenses was approved for anyone who wants to become a self-employed worker, many people have gotten busy putting together their own businesses.
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