Truth -like its relative: the muse- can seldom be caught, and much less caged. We are not even able to put it to pasture, like one 20th century thinker attempted, without dying of boredom from the melody of a flute.
Read MoreThis year is almost over; and people are commenting that during the next one, the Cuban State will make changes having major social and economic repercussions.
Read More“My name is Anya and work is the only thing that interests me. My story is like that of many women who have come to feel that the most essential things in life are to be found between the four walls of home. That’s where our husbands and children are. Why ask for more?”
Read MoreMany of us have a charm or amulet that protects us from evil influences or energies. These objects -which can be in the form of a stone from the river or sea, the seed from a robust tree, a magnet or simply a tooth from some animal or a bone from a person- supposedly give us spiritual force.
Read MoreIn Cuba, the origin of pirated movies and music goes back to the 90s, when these first entered the country in a somewhat coordinated manner. VCR players took the place of the old Beta-format recorders, which could be found here since the 1980s.
Read MoreOnce again, I ask myself how I can think about one letter if I don’t know the content of the other. I would like to read it, but I already know that I will have to look for it via other media.
Read MoreWhen anyone talks about violence against women in Cuba, it’s important to note that those who live outside of the capital are in the worse situation. There, machismo is stronger (among both sexes), customs change less than in the city, there are fewer job opportunities, and there exist a series of socio-economic and cultural conditions that enable aggressive behavior toward females.
Read MoreWe lack the necessary “international safeguards” capable of protecting and assisting countries at risk of being destroyed by climate change or confronting emergency situations in cases of disaster. At the summit we witnessed only rhetoric, an absence of vision and flimsy commitments to the future.
Read MoreOne of the most impressive events organized every year in Havana is the Festival of New Latin American Cinema (aka-Havana Film Festival) – and this year was no different. To walk Havana’s streets during the Festival is quite different from the rest of the year. Instead of tired faces, I saw excited ones. It was as if most people had rid themselves of the complexities of daily life.
Read MoreI grew up in a neighborhood of Havana far from downtown. It was one of the neighborhoods made up of dozens of simple and uninspired apartment buildings constructed to deal with the housing needs of thousands of poor people back in the 1970s.
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