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Milk or Fancy Toys?

I think there’s no reason or motive to show off things like those expensive toys, which are unattainable for most people, and not have basic products available.

On Sunday the other week, after several weekends without going out, some friends invited us to a show at the Teatro America. It turned into the discovery of an atmosphere different from what we’re accustomed to in Cuban theaters.

A Delayed Response

I can’t say that I’ve seen any direct repercussions, but there has indeed been something insinuated: If the decision makers and experts in these areas have opted for this path, we can imagine that our timid hopes for the legal recognition of unions different from heterosexual ones are far from being realized.

The Thanksgiving Cuba Airport Scene

In a recent trip to the airport I found myself waiting with an eager crowd of Cubans who had dressed to the nines to receive their guests.

Who Says People Don’t Work?

On a trip to Holguin province, I visited places where people were able to quench their thirst by buying drinking water from independent vendors.

Verbal Violence & “A Stick Across Your Face”

I find it increasingly annoying to see how my fellow citizens so easily turn to violence —lining it with grace— by adding it to the vox populi in this fashion.

The Enraged Bus

I felt I was lucky. I’d even passed up piling on the last of the four P-11s with the full faith that the next one would soon be by. Such excessive optimism dealt me a bad hand.

As the Fog Lifts

I feel the obligation and pleasure in clarifying that following that first and fateful impression, I’ve begun to especially appreciate the titanic task of one group, the teachers, who are practically giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation in an attempt to revive the near dead.

A Call for Unity From Below

We heard the rumor that Santa Cruz’s hospital was going to be turned into a simple polyclinic and that all the specialized services would disappear. Such a decision, taken centrally by the government as part of its new plan for budgetary resource optimization, was not initially discussed with the residents of Santa Cruz.

Girl, you better be careful!

To present ideas, to speak out, to express an opinion, these are seen as restricted exclusively to the domain of so-called feedback meetings with community delegates or the many other meetings we’re required to attend.