Paula Henriquez’s Diary

Once again, I woke up to go hunting, as we (not) so affectionately call the hard task of trying to find food recently.

Your House, My House, Our House. The dream of many Cuban young people is to have a space of their own to raise a family.

Social distancing stops being an alternative or individual choice, when people seek refuge in other colorful and dreamlike realities.

Our house is over 70 years old and as you can imagine, structural and other damage begins to show. It will depend on us to do the repairs…

I wake up like any other day, thinking about sorting out a few everyday things, now that Time isn’t my biggest setback.

Paul Henriquez describes what it’s like living next to an urban animal farm in Havana.

If life in Cuba was complicated with its dual currency system, just imagine what it’s like now with three.

There has been a new outbreak of COVID-19 in Cuba. It wasn’t expected for another few months…

Everybody knows Juanita. Whenever anyone asks about her, the answer is normally: “She’s the short woman, wearing glasses and a wide-brim hat.”