The Recurring Floods in Havana
Repeated disasters, yet the promises remain the same: the drains will be cleaned, the networks rehabilitated, and new machinery purchased.
Read MoreRepeated disasters, yet the promises remain the same: the drains will be cleaned, the networks rehabilitated, and new machinery purchased.
Read MoreI remember my grandfather pausing in the doorway every time he heard the “Peanut Vendor” coming down the street.
Read MoreI live on the fifth floor of a “microbrigade” building, something very close to purgatory. The neighbor’s dog urinates in front of my door.
Read MoreIn the very heart of El Vedado, Havana, on the corner of 17th and E, rises a mansion that seems frozen in time.
Read MoreSmall, almost secret places where generations of Habaneros have learned to swim, to dream, and sometimes to forget.
Read MoreHavana teeters between the engineering of the past and the hydric crisis of the present. Meanwhile, thirst persists among its people.
Read MoreIn Cuba, getting dressed is not just a daily act: it is a mirror of identity and, at the same time, of crisis.
Read MoreIn its early days, Miramar was nothing more than a wooded and swampy area on the other side of the Almendares River, with a few haciendas…
Read MoreAlcides, 68, drags his jolongo (cloth sack) through the streets where garbage piles remain for weeks without being collected.
Read MoreCuba, the largest island in the Caribbean, is surrounded by a deep blue ocean that used to be overflowing with life.
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