Yenisel Rodriguez’s Diary

The TV programs Huron Azul and Clip Punto cu are part of a small number of cultural programs that are struggling to reintroduce a socio-cultural critique into discourse on Cuban television.

Nowadays, “caller paying” equals see how much I love you. Assuming the full cost of a telephone call [in Cuba both the caller and receiver normally pay] is also a good way of showing affection to one’s partner.

“Yes, freedom is something else, something very delicate; something that can complicate things. And these are moments of survival. My life project is to subsist.” That’s the opinion of Martin, an acquaintance of mine who proudly demonstrates the success of his private business.

The violence that men suffer at hands of other men is violence characterized by being very cruel. It constitutes a hidden representative component of violence occurring across the country.

A definitive break with our perceptiveness occurs when our childhood ends. Teenage yearnings for adulthood leave little space for the same heightened sensitivities that flourished in our childhood.

Despite all the efforts made by the government to come out on top, the aim of creating a monopoly over the Cuatro Caminos Market was impossible to materialize.

In 1961 the revolutionary government took control over what was the largest agricultural market in the capital and the country, popularly known as the “Mercado de Cuatro Caminos”. The results were not so good.

At a camp site, students will ask your permission to wade around in the nearest creek – so you let them. When you go to look for them, everyone is up to their knees in water, laughing and enjoying themselves.

Last week on the train coming from of San Jose de las Lejas, which connects the new province of Mayabeque with the capital city, an incident of xenophobia occurred.

To make it as a baseball player demands major economic sacrifices by the families of young Cubans. Only a few of those families are able to assist economically over the 10 years of high-performance sports training, meaning that talent alone is no longer enough to make it to the Cuban big leagues.