This setback in transportation has still not been acknowledged officially; the only information is that Cuba too is being affected by the world economic crisis. People on the streets have begun to speculate about the coming of a new “Special Period.”
Read MoreThe Poder Popular (city council) representative christened our subdivision the “Gingerbread Homes.” In any case, after ten years of complaining and talking to anyone who would listen, it seems that some of these problems will be addressed.
Read MoreNow, as each day passes I’m adapting better and thinking less of flight. Every day it hurts a little more to think about leaving my grandmother, knowing that since her health has begun to decline she’s going to need me that much more.
Read MoreThis was just a snippet of time, that we hope mushrooms over time. Only with the participation of all workers and other social groups we will be able to dislodge the bureaucracy that hampers and mines this revolution.
Read MoreA hermit crab was in the middle of the road as a car was approaching in the distance. If one of the vehicle’s four wheels lined up with it, good-bye crab, not even its hard snail like shell would save it from being squashed.
Read MoreSince the beach is free, the seashore is the preferred destination for almost everybody. That’s why people from all over the capital meet up at the same places and form this mass that I try to avoid, maybe because I was raised in the tranquility of my home on the outskirts.
Read MoreMy interest in neighboring Haiti is also inspired by the need to study the process by which emancipatory revolutions are hijacked by the political elite who then use them to erect new systems of domination.
Read MoreSomeone commented on my blog that with an empire breathing down our necks it was very naive to ask that all of the backroom political dealings be made public, thus giving the enemy more fuel to do greater damage.
Read MoreRicardo is a neighborhood hero. One time he brought home two jars of olives for an old woman who complained about how she hadn’t tasted them in ages, and another time a bottle of rum for the farewell of a friend who was leaving for Europe.
Read MoreAlso attending were partial transsexuals, exhibiting their achievements under their cloths, and transvestites made up especially for the occasion: all of them displaying their finest attire on this warm and informal day.
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