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I’m a Peaceful Man

I had discovered another nature lover: Alberto Muñoz, a former Cuban medal winner in wrestling. Now with the years weighing on his shoulders, he is determined to make his humble garden flourish.

Cuba’s Press and the Cepeda Affair

A few days ago the new Cuban baseball roster was announced for the Intercontinental Cup to take place starting October 23 in Chinese Taipei. The restructuring of Team Cuba has generated more than a few comments in our country among the followers of the national sport, especially over the exclusion of Sancti Spiritus slugger Frederich Cepeda.

Letter to a Cuban Abroad

I’m writing to let you know that here everyone is breathing, sleeping, eating and panicking over the “readjustment of Cuba’s economic model.”

Anyway, Things Change…

I didn’t argue; I merely collected my things together and prepared myself for the adventure of finding where I could earn a few pesos a day to make up for the loss.

Observing a Contradiction

Today, one of two things should take place: Either the measure to make workers remain on the job five years more to retire should be rescinded or the announced layoffs should be shelved.

A Dubious Economic Solution for the Country

Wouldn’t a more rational alternative —though one also more feared— be the country’s opening up to foreign investment for the creation of small and medium sized companies?

Going to the Guanimar Club

The orgy in question —which today is shocking all of Havana— is not simply the result of a drug overdose in a bar full of young immature kids, as some prefer to believe – but something worse.

When They’re Bad, They’re Bad

Tania got up full of energy. She dressed quickly so that she could stop by the library before heading on to class. But her brother stopped her before leaving the house and ripped the cover of her social studies book for the class “The World in which We Live, her favorite subject. “Was he just pulling her chain?” I wondered.

The Paternalism Test

The main character in my story is not me, it’s the person who I’ll describe using the initial “P.

On Being Harassed

Apparently, fifty years since the 1959 socialist revolution and the foundation of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) have not been enough.