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Going Hungry in Cuba

Everybody knows that rice is the main staple of the Cuban diet. Although somebody [Diaz-Canel] ridiculously said that lemons are the staple.

Diana’s story is perhaps one of many. However, my family and I have experienced it firsthand and suffered as a result… she is our neighbor.

Blasting music can be heard again during the COVID-19 lockdown. Some things never change; the only thing we can do is be tolerant.

How can it be? Because Cuba has become a country of excesses. And poetry has turned out to be a very serious matter.

In one of the apartments she cleans she met an older man who would flatter her about her attractive figure, great body…

Elio Delgado Legon writes about the reasons he feels very proud to be Cuban. He notes events before and after the 1959 revolution.

I ran into an acquaintance this week, who was celebrating Democrat candidate Joe Biden’s presidential win. I’ll tell you how our talk went.

Cuban mothers are in a state of constant stress, what between the COVID-19 pandemic and the beginning of the preschool year

It became clear that there was a really serious health crisis in my neighborhood, ever since the morning of Wednesday November 11th.

ETA derailed the Caribbean sector of Honduras last week. Scores lost everything: Houses gone. Many dead or missing. Now here comes Iota…