The man came up to her to ask her for directions and minutes later a police patrol car pulled up. Without asking for any explanation, they picked Gaby up and took her down to the station. “I was caught on camera and they hauled me in,” Gabriela tried to explain to me later on.
Read MoreCUPET garages are a miniature of the fractured society in which we live: on the one hand is the search for profitable services in hard currency and the “stability” of formal work; on the other is the culture of hustling, manipulation & shortages.
Read MoreI have a friend who’s been a radio announcer for twenty years. In terms of the media, there’s no one who can tell him anything new. This guy has seen and heard everything.
Read MoreI used to walk through that area with my parents in the distant decade of the 1970s, when my dad would tell my mom and me stories about the Cuban Revolution. I remember looking at the strange shield of the Republic mounted over the Palace and wondering how the “Yankees,”who were such bad guys, used the same native symbols of Cuba that the revolutionaries had used.
Read MoreFor the last three months I’ve had several experiences related to footwear. I went to stores almost every day for about a month but didn’t find anything appropriate for my youngest daughter.
Read MoreReturning to dealing with the “pretty” side of the city, I looked for information on the dump and I found out through daily newspapers that, with great fanfare, a state-of-the-art biogas plant had been set up there in 2008.
Read MoreWhen the Obama administration repealed some of the restrictions of the US travel ban I was surprised, and, a bit hopeful. I then thought that perhaps the subject of the longstanding blockade of Cuba by the US might make its way into Obama’s state of the union address.
Read MoreHotels that charge in regular Cuban pesos don’t exist. What’s left for ordinary Cubans when they visit another of the island’s cities?
Read MoreI’ve always been around doctors: my mother, her friends, mine. Stories about dilatation and curettage as well as menstrual abortions came and went, but they never really stuck in my mind.
Read MoreMy friend Leslie spent about a year doing exercises with weights at a gym. It improved his figure noticeably, eliminating almost all the excess fat around her abdomen and building up muscular mass where it’s needed to show off a good figure.
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