For many years political leaders used popular culture, especially music, to carry out ideological propaganda. This was easy work during the days when people believed the Revolution would generate the social changes promised since the beginning: those of granting power to the people themselves.
Read MoreUp to this point he was recounting what everyone already knows, though writing from a government perspective. For Morales, corruption is like a woodworm infiltrating the State apparatus, eating away at its purity and candor.
Read MoreEvery time this event is held, one observation has become customary among many Cubans. To us, what is impressive is not so much the teams that participate in the competition, but the fans that accompany them to such matches.
Read MoreThe sea is definitely beautiful, though at night its darkness is only smelled and heard. Notwithstanding, they don’t charge admission on the coast and having a little bread and water only costs a few pesos.
Read MoreIn St. Petersburg (Russia), they had a gardening competition a few weeks ago in which the participants were requested to draw their inspiration from French themes. First place was won by the design of a garden with a guillotine.
Read MoreI was looking for someone to begin working on the repair of my “gingerbread home” and contacted several bricklayers trying to find a good one, someone I knew, and who was reliable as a person, in addition to someone who lived close by so it would be easy for them to get to the job.
Read MoreIllegal immigrants occupy public places in the capital both as a form of resistance and perseverance. They develop various survival strategies. Among the most utilized is that of rummaging through the garbage, which is popularly known as buceo (“diving”), which among themselves is called tanqueo (“tanking”).
Read MoreThe fact that I loaned my arm to my cousin so that he could begin his career in the art of tattooing could seem like madness, but the true madness was that I found it all amusing.
Read MoreTwo nights ago, I boarded a bus in Havana and traveled across the island to Santiago, the second largest city in Cuba.
Read MoreIf you want to offer your services, there’s nothing better than a Yutong bus. The backs of the seats of these Chinese buses, with their resistant acrylic, offer an effective surface.
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