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two things should take place: Either the measure to make workers remain on the job five years more to retire should be rescinded or the announced layoffs should be shelved.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

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.

Will They Be from Havana or Santiago?

It was thought that those inducted from the east wouldn’t become implicated in Havana’s networks of crime and corruption since they were coming from so far away.

GPS? What for?

I was elated several months ago when I read in the nation’s official newspaper that each of the Havana buses on the new P lines would have a GPS unit installed on it. “Modern technology has finally made it to the island!” I exclaimed.

In Praise of the Violence of the Non-violent

I applaud the effort of my friends, but I have something in favor of violence, and I’ll take advantage of this opportunity to explain myself here.