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Cuba’s Doctors in Venezuela

To travel around Venezuela and not run into a group of Cuban medical doctors is like going to Africa and not finding a lion, or at least not seeing the savanna.

The fact is that these dreamers are seduced by the overwhelming sensation produced when gliding over the water on a mere piece of fiberboard. Obviously they find this experience more exhilarating than any other in the city.

Dogmatic Puntuality

It had been raining for a few days in the eastern part of the country, and that day dawn came in the rain. It seemed that Marbelis wouldn’t be on time to her job. “I’m going to be late today,” she said. “Thank God for the rain we need so badly, but please don’t let it rain at this time in the day,” she thought to herself while looking up at the sky.

A Viral Infection Within Us

I’m talking about a plague that has infected us with a virus, and I don’t still know if we’ll find a medicine that can counteract it.

Onion Tears

Trying to submerge myself in “a thing in itself,” as Kant would say, I headed off to the “agro” (agricultural market) at 42nd and 19th in the capital city’s Playa neighborhood.

Mission Accomplished

Yesterday it wasn’t even 8:00 o’clock in the morning and I already felt like a coward. The same thing had happened to me the day before at the end of work, which was why this morning’s affliction had me so worried.

Want to Buy a Crocodile?

One day I visited the Environmental Agency, an entity of the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment (CITMA), where I took advantage of this opportunity to find out if there’s any law that prohibits or regulates the sale of animals.

Where Did the Cents Go?

But what happens when there isn’t any change, and the smallest coin one can find is the peso?

Vargas Llosa: A Person with Attributes

Like most other Cubans I was introduced to his work late (in the 1990s). Since his writing was prohibited on the island after the early ‘70s.

Cuba’s Workers: Between a Rock & a Hard Place

The workforce restructuring plan that will soon be implemented in Cuba is worrisome to everyone: State employees as well as retirees, homemakers, self-employed workers and students. In one way or another, they will all be affected by the half million who will shortly find themselves without jobs.