If I were a little girl again among ranks of the Young Pioneers, wearing my uniform and with my hair well combed, instead of chanting the motto “Pioneers for communism, we will be like Che,” I would like to chant, “We will be like Fantito!”
Read MoreMy cousin burst into our house almost sprinting. He said that because a change in the schedule, he had to go by and pick up his colleagues in front of our house.
Read MoreI was asked by another guard to leave the area with my camera because this was a “strategic zone.” This time I mustered my nerve and asked why this bus stop was strategic?
Read MoreAll those present reaffirmed the idea that the problem of racism is palpable in our society and that no campaign undertaken since the beginning of the 1959 Revolution has been able to eradicate this disease.
Read MoreA soft breeze whiffs through the trees in the Plaza de Armas, the site selected by the Spanish conquistadors for the founding of Havana in 1519. Today this is the place where many lovers meet up to be together.
Read MoreRight now everybody’s happy at home because my father, Calzadilla, has just gotten a new job. Now he’s not moaning and groaning all the time —at least not in front of us— when things don’t turn out like he wants, which is almost always.
Read MoreJaime is an acquaintance of mine. We get together from time to time for coffee and to compare our takes on things.
Read MoreIn the beginning it was a secret. I don’t mean a secret-secret; it was talk in the building corridors. You could hear faceless voices saying…
Read MoreThrough the Cuban media we’ve been called to go back to working the land. While there’s nothing more legitimate than this, I have to ask myself why there are so many obstacles to engaging in such productive undertakings.
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