Pedro Pablo Morejon

I once read that a hero is someone just like you and me, the only difference being that they can’t run away from a situation.

Cubans suffer from pathological fear. It isn’t the natural fear that protects humans from the real dangers that Nature poses.

Most know him for his character Mario Conde, a police officer who aspires to be a writer and is in no way like the archetypes and predictable detectives…

The thing is people have stopped believing in their leaders’ crazy delusions, after so many unfufilled promises and food adventures.

It is a well-made cement prefab house that has been left abandoned for over 20 years, and a dark legend has been woven around its existence.

What’s happening with rice in Cuba today reminds me of that dark time in the 1990s known as the “Special Period in Times of Peace.”

Rural Cuba has stories which, if compiled into a book of fables, would be called “Cuban rural mythology”. They are about peasants, especially, the elderly.