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Watercolor of a Paralyzed, almost Dysfunctional Country

Anyone living in Cuba can testify to the disaster we are experiencing, of this dysfunctional and dead-end system that is called “continuity”.

I got the phone call from the hospital that morning. The mother’s excited voice told me, “Everything went well, the girl is beautiful…”

Going to the beach in the summer is inevitable when you have children. If you forget, don’t worry they’ll remind you every day.

The fear of being exposed to others is one of the new conflicts that wear on interpersonal relationships in Cuba.

Many families in my town have set up a counter and a shelf in their garage or doorway to their house and have set up their own bakery.

I’ve never believed in palmistry or reading cards, or snails or any kind of fortune-telling, not even in mediums or babalawos.

You can find a bra at any market in any other country in the world. Yet this necessary women’s garment is out of many Cubans’ reach…

Trying to get anything done in Cuba right now is torture. I’d been waiting months to try to see a dentist, but there are never any resources.

Fidel was viewed as a kind of Messiah, the very embodiment of the Homeland. An infallible, divine presence who couldn’t be questioned…

The show is 50 minutes long, but time flies by for viewers in their seats. tTe intensity of a well-known work that still left me speechless.