Diaries

Instilling Values among Worms

A question has arisen in terms of what species worm to raise though. In Cuba there is one that emerges spontaneously, but in all the bibliographic materials we’ve gone over, the Californian Red Worm is suggested as being the most efficient, healthy, adaptive etc.

Read More

The Forgotten Flag

It always surprises me that almost no one remembers the flag of the Directorio Revolucionario. This group was basically the student organization that on March 13, 1957 (a date remembered by heart by all Cubans school children in their History of Cuba classes) conducted an assault on Presidential Palace with the aim of killing the dictator.

Read More

Without Fear of Extremism

Sometimes you’ll hear that art advances a half step behind the masses, which is another way of saying that works of art always reflect how artists see society.

Read More

Reflections on Selfishness

Fidel Castro’s return to the Cuban television screen generated almost as much interest as the issue he was raising there: the imminence of war in Iran. The matter had to be very serious for him to interrupt his reclusive and prolonged retirement.

Read More

Paradoxes of the State

Imagine yourself invigorated amid of deafening cheers of hundreds of children reveling in the comedy of a sea lion dancing to reggaeton, when suddenly…poof, at a lift of your head, there you spot the all-seeing eyeball of our “Lord of the rings”!

Read More

The Benign State

Suddenly, the same State —that has imprisoned people for writing what they think, that doesn’t recognize its political prisoners, that shows itself irreversible in its policy against dissidents— has shown signs of extreme “kindness” and has left everyone speechless.

Read More

My Luck of the Draw

Fortunately, my cement-block house was —like the third pig in the fairy tale— able to stand up to the huffing and puffing of our own big bad wolf. My uncle’s wooden place, however, almost fell down on him.

Read More

Should Kids Be Told the Truth?

I never realized —until today— that the whole thing was a plot cooked up by my grandfather. It was all far from my understanding as a young, innocent and basically good kid that this was a war against the story of “Papa at night.”

Read More