A friend told me this story about the experience of a young Cuban woman: a teacher who emigrated to Mexico City to escape the hunger and other miseries suffered during the most critical moments of the Special Period crisis in Cuba in the early ‘90s.
Read MoreGiven the economic reforms that have just started to be implemented, the number of private producers and vendors of all types of goods has already grown.
Read MoreCould it be that this theater — once the center of scathing social criticism expressed in hilarious brushstrokes of authentic Creole humor — today generates fear in certain circles?
Read MoreAt this very moment I would be 15 times happier if I were able to be with my family and with my friends, and it wouldn’t matter if it were before or after December 31; what is important is being with them again. (20 photos)
Read MoreI made it to the farmer’s market…well, to where there was supposed to have been a market. There was nothing, or — better said — there was in fact a lot of people drinking and laughing. The celebrations had already begun there.
Read MoreThe news of the elimination of the surcharge on the US dollar joyously sent from email account to email account. Nonetheless, exchange rates at Cuban bureaux de change (CADECAs) remain unchanged.
Read MoreThe public understands perfectly well the need for many of the economic measures that will be implemented but “People remain skeptical because while they’ve heard a lot of speeches, they don’t have complete confidence in the government’s ability to solve the problems.”
Read MoreThe bus stop was full of people though it had already begun to get dark. A black woman in a red dress came into the area, walked around, and finally situating herself a little distant from everyone else.
Read MoreOur country — in the middle of an economic embargo, without great natural wealth and because of other things that I don’t want to refer to — is in fact immersed in underdevelopment, which causes us to be the daily witnesses of an abrupt subversion of values.
Read MoreNot long ago someone pulled down art works off the wall that mark the spot in Havana where one of the black martyrs of November 27, 1871 was murdered.
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