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Cuban Hotels’ Astronomical Prices for Nationals

If there’s been one issue that has made headlines in Cuba in recent months, it’s not exactly been the famous COVID-19, but increasing prices.

Nadia was itching her legs. That morning, mosquitoes had attacked us in aggressive swarms. While the insects stopped torturing us at dawn…

I am disgusted, angry and feel helpless. Lots of emotions have been running through me, recently. Let me tell you why…

We could say they were insufficient, false, manipulated… but let’s just say they were insufficient and leave the other adjectives hanging.

Somebody once said we are oblivion. I don’t exactly know where I heard it, but it’s true, we are oblivion.

Nora was born on February 4, 1950. Her innate joy was contagious, nobody laughed better and louder than she did.

It was 11 AM and I was in the middle of Vedado, and the sun was at its highest point in the sky, dehydrating anyone underneath it.

Right-wing and left-wing authoritarianisms share a preference for uniformity, united in their prejudice and punishment of the other.

Daily COVID-19 briefings with Dr. Duran had almost every Cuban watching because they were afraid of the spread of the pandemic, but now…

For the books you read to us. For accompanying our first steps and words. For everything lived, these lines go out to you.