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The Alamar Cinema

It is a spacious, beautiful and comfortable theater that also served as a sort of bohemian style gathering spot for poets and painters with poetry readings and book presentations that we young people really appreciated.

Depression, the Street Sweeper and Sex

Due to those mysteries of the mind that the neuroscientists still haven’t managed to decipher, I couldn’t sleep well on Sunday. I dreamed and dreamed, so much that later I couldn’t remember anything about the dreams. And I woke up tired, absolutely muddled.

Common Sense

About six years ago, I went to a store in Cambridge, Mass., part of a chain known as Bread and Circus, with two women friends from the U.S. They had asked me to accompany them to purchase a young turkey for Thanksgiving.

The Woman, the Party and the Ark

We lived in a well earned and well fenced-off paradise. Maybe that’s why we didn’t demand too much from others, who were already a copy of youself. It was easy to find a partner who would want to go through life together with us.

Gay couples have nowhere to go

Here in Havana just a few months ago I met a couple of young Argentine women who were very inspired by Cuba. They were sociology students and looked to Cuban socialism with hope-filled eyes.

Candied Flowers

As a little girl I listened to men make flirtatious comments. My mother has always been a beautiful woman, elegant, and although she doesn’t have a sculptural body like many Cubans, she awakened the masculine sexual appetite.

Malecon: Cuban Eclecticism

The Cuban personality assumes some of the most varied and unlikely forms of expression possible. It would be a mistake not to see all of its many manifestations as valid, since from the very beginning the formation of the Cuban nationality has been marked by an eclecticism converging from all parts of the world.

Cinema of the poor is possible

I attended the Low-Budget Thematic Film Festival in Cienfuegos as a specialist on gender issues and participated in discussions about topics as sensitive as they are urgent to address. To close one’s eyes and ears to reality does not resolve problems, it intensifies them.

We Must Be Progressing

Students discovered taking part in religious practices were prejudiced. At the time, I wondered why so much unfairness? Many times these individuals had better moral standards than those who occupied management positions.

My Civil Defense Professor

All Cuban Universities require students to take philosophy, political economy and civil defense whether you are studying for degrees in the arts or the sciences. The names of the classes would have us suppose that students would receive some very useful knowledge for the world they will be entering as future workers in a socialist society.