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Privatizing Christ?

This Christ figure that blesses the Cuban capital is a customary tourist destination. To sit down and rest near its giant feet after climbing the Cabaña hillside has always been a normal and pleasant activity for me.

What Do Your Children Play?

The author of an article I read a while back titled “Generation i” talked about how his daughter, who was only 13 months old, already knew how to look up photos on his iPhone and even changed the configuration of his computer, accidently of course.

False Justice (A Farce in 3 Acts)

Never has the issue of international politics been at the center of my writings, but I believe that now an exception is forcing me to do so because the subject I am going to write on cannot be avoided.

Cuba’s “Padilla Affair” 40-Years On

The date April 27, 1971 seems unimportant, though it certainly is. That was the occasion when a good part of the world’s intellectuals officially broke with the Cuban Revolution.

In the Belly

The sensation of rebirth is similar to that of waking up in the sense that when you achieve it you are fully certain that it’s reality, and that which occurred previously was perhaps imagery or a confused perception of what truly exists.

Silence Is Consent

The popular psychologist Dr. Calviño gave two examples that I found very telling: The first was that of a department head who believed that everyone agreed with him, since each time that he met with his subordinates they spoke very little or said nothing in opposition.

Cuba’s Children of William Tell

We expected a great change in our lives that wouldn’t be limited to running to try and jump on a bus, to “inventing” something to eat or simply dreaming that someday we’d live better.

Masculinity in Cuba

Finally “someone” realizes that men are much more than domineering sex maniacs. Now we will be able to express — without fear of whipping up feminist suspicions — our concerns about the subtle discrimination and marginalization that we too suffer.

The Unfulfilled Phenomenology of Proletarian Consciousness

In the mid-20th century, the young Cornelios Castoriadis wrote the article “Phenomenology of Proletarian Consciousness,” in which he described the convoluted yet logical path that the collective mind of the working class had to journey to reach its final emancipation.

Bla Bla Bla

I have serious doubts about “representativeness” because it’s unjust, even when it can function for the good in certain contexts.