Caroline Wallace was only a little girl when she saw the rock fortress at the entrance to Santiago de Cuba’s port for the first time. She was accompanying her father, the new US consul to the Caribbean city, where she lived with hum for six years.
Read MoreThe US media campaign against Cuban émigrés hasn’t stopped. Now, Cuban immigrants are accused of not behaving like political refugees, abusing welfare benefits and acting like delinquents who are “pillaging America.”
Read MoreMore than a week after the news about Cuban actress Yordanka Ariosa’s Best Actress Award at the San Sebastian Film Festival were published, one cannot help but notice that, while a number of newspapers around the world divulged the story, Cuba’s official press completely ignored it. Why?
Read MoreA romance may help dispel my sorrows…if it managed to awaken any illusions in me, that is. I’m not too sure it could, not because of my age but because of the disappointments I’ve suffered in life. I would have to give it a try. The problem is that the very few people available are part of my past, water under the bridge, as they say.
Read MoreThe strike in the State postal services company staged in Holguin’s municipality of Banes ended with a resounding victory for the workers. The conflict began when postal workers expressed their disagreement over payment mechanisms they considered unjust.
Read MoreThis Friday I visited an office of ETECSA [the telecommunications monopoly] to get a refund of a US $100 deposit I had given a few years ago. The process took half an hour and I had to sign 11 receipts!
Read MoreUS and Spanish golfers have pledged to support the creation of a Cuban national golf federation. The question is should the National Sports Institute dedicate part of its meager budget to finance the practice of an expensive sport that almost no one plays in Cuba?
Read MoreHer name was Felicia, and she was a prostitute back when it was good business to be one in Havana. She continued to be a hooker after 1959, when all gambling establishments were shut down and prostitution was declared illegal and actively persecuted.
Read MoreSome years ago, a former vice-minister for the economy told me, keeping a straight face, that an unpublished study had revealed that the State employees who missed the least days of work were hotel bell boys and pump operators at gas stations.
Read MoreThe lifting of restrictions on visiting Cuba prompted the first doubts regarding the political nature of Cuban immigration. About half a million of those who allegedly fled communist persecution vacation on the island every year.
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