Here, products like soap, toothbrushes, glasses, buckets, belts, cloth, clothes and shoes are a little cheaper than in the hard currency stores. It was remarkable to see these stores full of people with cheerful faces able to buy products at prices that did not completely break their budget.
Read MoreI’ve been going out with a woman of late. We met a few months ago, and yesterday she came over to my house for first time. My place is nice, comfortable, and it was great to be able to have my own house to spend time with her.
Read MoreDuring the day we dedicated ourselves to hiking, making camp, swimming in the sea, inventing a way to cook with firewood (at times we had to gather the firewood from far away) and relaxing a little. At night came the work with the turtles.
Read MoreAfter a war, one is be able to exercise judgment, but the Cuban individual remains on a war footing under the physical threat of being invaded by the United States, and under the ideological threat of the ideas of capitalism-so peacetime never comes.
Read MoreOne of the most interesting aspects about philosophy is that it must be rediscovered by each person who is interested in it. The educator cannot teach the answers, because then we would not be in the presence of an emancipatory knowledge, of a philosophy.
Read MoreLooking at them reminds me of moments when images like these accompanied our doubt, anger, choices and hopes. I think of their reactions to the messages that these materials transmit, be they humdrum or suggestive.
Read MoreIn today’s Cuba, mothers have been the unquestionable navigators of the crisis. In the kitchen and at the table, they have performed the miracle of bread and fish come true, very often while also attending to their social and work obligations.
Read MoreAt the moment the camera flashed, she didn’t complain about what she’d never had, though maybe she should have complained about what she wasn’t going to get, what she was losing by marrying a man she didn’t love.
Read MoreReggaeton has polarized Cuban society: on one side, the illustrious opinion of the defenders of tradition, public morals and good taste; on the other side, the persistent clueless -those who play it and listen to it, and who blast it from their cars and stores.
Read MoreThat is precisely what I think Cuba needs, a revolutionary culture of intellectuality – one that involves the participation of people, respects ideas from all over the world and is willing take discussions about problems to all the country’s workers.
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