When I got to my job, I could finally understand what was going on. It turned out that the week off —which for years has been known for being a vacation break each six weeks for elementary school students— has now been expanded to include all educational levels.
Read MorePerhaps for some readers outside of Cuba, 10 murders in one month is not an alarming figure because they are accustomed to hearing that 30 women die daily in Latin America from this cause. For us, however, the figures are worrisome, not only because this is an issue that goes practically unspoken in our media, but also because it points to a rise in gender related violence.
Read MoreTwo years ago in my voting district, there was an act of popular autonomy. Someone in a meeting stood up and proposed Sergio as the delegate. They had previously asked him and he had agreed. Immediately a host of hands rose in support.
Read MoreInsults will rain down on me when I make public what I think about Mothers Day and everything that has to do with it.
Read MoreCats —these beautiful, elegant, athletic and acrobatic creatures— cannot be tamed like other animals. They cannot be possessed; they coexist with you, and they possess spaces within the home that are their spaces, which they actively claim.
Read MoreI’m glad that in the middle of Moore’s masterful and amusing demonstration of today’s disastrous capitalist crisis (comparing it to the good times in which his parents lived), Moore inserted sequences on alternatives to the current bourgeois system.
Read MoreI believe in signs and good beginnings of the week. I also believe in people who I hardly know but who tell me their stories without inhibition and allow me to see what they’ve learned from life.
Read MoreA Venezuelan friend, who unfortunately lives far from Caracas, sent me a cell phone that she didn’t use; she told me it was so I don’t keep walking around like a soldier without a rifle. (27 photos)
Read MoreHavana and Juarez have something in common. In each city, several of their citizens have found a peculiar way to broadcast the complexities of the news.
Read MoreThis May Day I had the opportunity to march alongside the working class of Argentina to protest against the payment of the foreign debt and for increased wages and more jobs. The turnout was massive. The working class exhibited its internationalist character in uniting across the board against world capital.
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