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Being on the Havana News

Today when I went to pick up my academic visa from the immigration office; the woman behind the desk greeted me with a wide smile. “I saw you on TV last night!”

Here, after five decades of Revolution, we have ended up losing all capacity to listen and understand other points of view that are not our own. That’s why my first response to any criticism is primitive, automatically assuming the observation made of me to be unjust.

The Oil Platform and My Friend Frank

I was about 20 when I was called up for military service. Given my good health and a lot of naiveté, they had me serve my tour as a diver in the Navy.

Making My Dream Come True

My dream was finally realized. I now have a computer. Yet the funniest thing was how I went about getting it.

Horse-drawn Carriages, Our Salvation

In Guantanamo, the covered wagon is part of tradition. It’s not because people want to go to “Bayamo en Coche” (Bayamo in Carriage), like the line from the song made famous by the popular artist affectionately known as “Tiburón” (shark), but because out of necessity for many years this has been the most common form of getting from one place to another.

Alfredo vs. British Petroleum

It seems that these owners of corporations have as their only goal in life leaving money for their children, with the sole inconvenience being that to enjoy so much money they’ll need a planet on which to do it.

To Judge or Not

At once I understood that I shouldn’t think badly of people. The young woman was perhaps in a hurry; it could have been that people were expecting her, or that she hadn’t eaten anything all day, or that she had something urgent to take care of.

A Cuban Skirmish for Rice

The sale of rice on the Cuban black market has reached more than three times the price of this product in agricultural markets. Several days ago, the lack of the grain provoked a popular protest in one neighborhood of the capital.

Bhopal, Chernobyl, BP & the Gulf of Mexico

For years, there had not been a technological catastrophe comparable to those of Bhopal or Chernobyl. Thank God. Because, unfortunately, if we humans do not change the organization of our productive forces and our concept of consumption, the danger will continue – lying in wait.

The Last Leg of My Studies

To be student in the nuclear chemistry program was a complete challenge from the very first instant. It meant setting new priorities and enduring countless headaches and a level of stress that didn’t diminish over time.