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The Ungrateful and Selfish

The ungrateful are present, the ones who didn’t have to pay a single cent in Cuba to get an education themselves and their children.

I am a 20-year-old Nicaraguan woman, who is interested in the environment and loves to explore and learn new things.

All of us here know that there is a song that came out recently, released by well-known Cuban artists, that went viral on social media.

People saw the mattress a mile away. It didn’t only stand out for its blue lining. It’s strange for somebody to throw out a good mattress.

Let me tell you about some of the absurd things that are happening in my country. Some are beyond belief and others simply incredible.

The situation of many Cuban emigres in the US depends a great deal on how they left, how ready they were to leave, and their achievements.

With markets empty people’s hopes of getting food lie in our fields. However in Mayarí, neither Nature nor bureaucrats are on our side.

Just over eight years ago, I had the chance to go and visit Cayo Santa Maria, thanks to some friends of friends who live in another country.

For over three years our country suffers medicine shortages. Something that wasn’t as bad during the Special Period crisis in the ‘90s.

Today, couples in Cuba go to bed thinking about what they’re going to eat the next day. When they awake that’s the first topic of conversation.