It’s something that has opened my eyes with astonishment, like someone seeing a whale for the first time, because I think I’ll break down and cry the day I ever see one. However, the uproar of an election campaign here in Venezuela is enough to make you cry from not being able to get a good night’s sleep.
Read MoreHow legitimate can the announced layoffs be in the eyes of workers if the alternatives have not been appropriately assessed?
Read MoreThree blocks before getting to downtown’s Jose Marti Park, a student asked the driver: “How far are you going?” However the driver only responded with another question: “Where do you want to go?” “Well, I wanted to go north,” the young girl replied. “Baby, all of us want to go in that direction, but we can’t,” said the driver smiling.
Read MoreSome progressive researchers warn of the possibility of a catastrophe, but it’s curious to see how those same people miss the boat when dealing with the issue in Cuba.
Read MoreI was recently in Santiago de Cuba, a city that guards its histories and charms, as well as the immense warmth of its people and the climate that’s endured there.
Read MoreWhen a Catalan friend visited the island, he told me that he didn’t understand why many Cubans complain so much about food shortages, because —as he put it— “You couldn’t find fatter people than here.”
Read MoreCuba is confronting a new situation of mass layoffs. It’s said that this will involve between a half million and one million redundant workers, mainly in administrative institutions and less-profitable companies.
Read MoreWorkers in Cuba are preparing for a process that will result in the elimination of more than 500,000 jobs in the dominant public sector of the economy.
Read MoreI began my conflicts with this man as an adolescent, the same time that I began forming my own identity, a process that turned out being more difficult than climbing the Himalayas.
Read MoreIn the town of Sancti Spiritus there exist many brickyards. These are factories where clay bricks are made. My sixteen-year-old cousin Yanner works in one of them. His mother says that if he doesn’t want to study, then he has to work.
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