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A Happy Day’s End for a Hunter in Cuba

A friend of a friend, who lives in Pinar del Rio city, agreed to sell me 10 pounds of rice for the “reasonable” price of 15 pesos per pound.

There are major differences in dealing with rights, media and public, information and expression, in autocracies and democracies.

What place is this? Where the hell am I now? That’s me opening my eyes in the morning, trying to recognize the roof and walls around me.

Freedom or death was the slogan that was adopted at the beginning of the Cuban Revolution on October 10th 1868…

Despite being over 30 , I always loved cartoons. Many complained about the “Russian cartoons”, but to tell you the truth, I really liked them.

During this pandemic, I’ve learned to live differently, it’s an opportunity to understand that the here and now is what really matters.

It’s happened to me twice now. Every time it’s happened, I’ve thought that I may have stirred some kind of attraction in them.

There are many capitalist societies without democracy in today’s world. However, democracies without capitalism have never existed.

This is how we see “the situation”, this modern version of the “Special Period”, as coined by Fidel Castro.

This isn’t just a geopolitical challenge, but something that also affects the very narrative of democratic societies