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Looking for a Medicine to Cure Desperation

My mobile began to ring at 5 AM, and my body just wanted to stay stuck to the mattress. The best I could do was pretend I didn’t hear it…

Every day, my elderly neighbor Margarita wakes up early and goes to the closest kiosk (retail point) to her house.

Political control mechanisms on Cuban employees are not only limited to fake unions, that’s not the case at all.

Today, I woke up with the masochistic determination to wait in line and buy food at my neighborhood store. In reality they are crowds…

Universities are essential for a democratic culture. People learn to live with ideas different from their own & exercise critical thought.

In Venezuela the Public Health System does not escape the government policies of misery to which most of the population is subjected.

He looks at me, smiles and some wrinkles deepen near his eyes, which are still green but have lost their twinkle from yesteryear.

Of course, he can be criticized and doubted! Yunior Garcia is now a public figure and politician, even if he still doesn’t identify as such.

I sometimes see opinions from Cuban emigres going on about the cowardice or complicity of their fellow countrymen on the island…

With great fanfare, the regional elections in Venezuela were held November 21, promoted by the government as “Mega-elections”.