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Electronic Music, Not Just Sounds

On Friday April 22, “Proelectronica” will be presented in the “Propociciones: For a Living Planet Festival” at the Salon Rosado de la Tropical in the Cuban capital.

Our Problems Now Come First

Since he assumed power, Raul Castro has demonstrated on several occasions his great concern for turning around (or at least trying to) the precarious conditions of the island’s economy.

Sleep & Cuba’s Time Bomb

The new Cuban version of the stage play “Sleep” unwittingly touches on one of the most silenced problems in today’s Cuba: The gradual decline in the island’s population growth.

Cristina is from Seville, Spain, but while working here in Cuba she doesn’t want to be looked at as a “yuma” (a foreigner). She knows that with such an image she’ll always remain distanced from our reality. She doesn’t want to be like this, but she doesn’t know to accomplish the alternative.

Looking Around for Work… Again

A few months ago I quit my job and have been wandering around since. I was down spirited and dejected, watching my savings vanish one peso at a time and suffering for having lent money to friends who still haven’t paid me back.

Associated Genealogies of the Soviet Space Program (Part II)

When I was born and they told me about him, Yuri Gagarin was already both history and myth, because by then he had unfortunately died in a stupid flight training accident …

In Silence…

Friday was the last time I saw my friend. She had called early in the morning saying that she had a suitcase full of books that she didn’t want any more and that to keep from having to throw them out, she had thought about me.

Cuban? Yuck!

At the beginning it made me laugh when people — thinking I was a tourist — would come up to me offering all kinds of goods and services.

The Splinter in Your Brother’s Eye

It’s common for people to cite biblical proverbs when confronted by certain situations. This happened yesterday, for example, in a small ward at the oncological hospital.

How Cuba’s People Live Socialism

I don’t question the authenticity of the interviewees or their testimonies, but what did indeed catch my attention was the interviewer’s seemingly negligible interest in presenting the more complex picture of our situation.