Opinion

Tight Squeeze in a Cuban Bus?

We’ll be a little constricted. You coming? Of course. The simplicity, humility and austerity of our leaders is more than known. An austerity that they have even instilled in their children and grandchildren.

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Politicians with a Good Appetite

People in positions of high responsibility tend to be subject to high levels of stress, which is known to cause anxiety attacks, which in turn can induce binge eating of either junk or gourmet food.

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An Account of Sexual Violence at a Cuban School

Jessica doesn’t want to disclose her real name or show her photo, she won’t say what the name of the school was or where it was, she doesn’t even want to write because “I don’t like that”; but one thing she knows for sure is that her story is very common among teenage girls that any of them would identify with it.

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The Good Side to Cuba’s “Temporary Crisis”

Guayaba jam. That’s what I was thinking about when I listened to the Cuban president explain the new temporary situation. About the large transparent glass jar with a wide rim, recently-brought from the bodega rations store on the corner and my mother putting it on the table of my childhood, for breakfast, to spread on bread, when I was 7 years old.

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Cuban Baseball: In Crisis or Not?

The debate took place a few days ago on a television program, and although it was brief, it reveals the dissatisfactions that exist among specialists regarding the performance of Cuban baseball players in the international events of recent years.

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