That time, someone had actually knocked at the door of my fifth-floor apartment. It wasn’t like I imagined it happening every morning, when I woke up, took a trip to the bathroom and returned to bed. It was an official summons instructing me to meet with those responsible for my case at the Council of State.
Read MoreI am not an expert on soccer or any other sport and, like most Cubans from my generation, I am a baseball aficionado (which doesn’t mean I am not enjoying the good soccer games we’ve been seeing in the World Cup held in Brazil this year).
Read MoreIn the spring of 1990, the world as I knew it was falling to bits. I didn’t exactly know this, even though I was a good, primary school student who read the newspaper Granma and Zunzun and Sputnik magazines. I don’t think even my parents realized that “real socialism” was falling to bits.
Read MoreBaseball players signing million-dollar contracts abroad are not the only Cubans taking in such sums of money – they are in fact joining other sectors of the population who are already doing so under the law and without having to leave the country definitively.
Read MoreMy grandmother was obsessively opposed to letting things go to waste, particularly food and clothes. If you helped yourself to a large serving of food and only ate a small part of it, my she would say you were “eating with your eyes only” and that you were inconsiderate. If you bought clothing you never wore, she harped on and on about your wasteful ways.
Read MoreThe poll lays bare the need for Cuban Americans under 30 years old, as well as those arriving in the past two decades, to get registered and to participate in the election process in order to make their numbers favoring restored relations and a lifting of sanctions meaningful.
Read MoreManuel González Hernández, known in the music world as Manolín the Doctor of Salsa, suggests that the Castro brothers and the people of their generation retire, saying they are out of step with the times. “You musn’t put yourselves above the country,” he insisted.
Read MoreWhen one has guests over, it is natural to try and give them the best possible impression, but sweeping poverty under the rug doesn’t seem like the best course of action, particularly because most of these individuals are elderly people looking to compensate for their meager pensions.
Read MoreI think that encouraging this type of debate within what I call “Cuba’s unconventional dissident community” (the new Left and anarchist groups) can be an interesting experience, because Podemos is giving the traditional Left a number of lessons, not only in Europe and Spain, but also at the international level.
Read MoreMy son is 12 and currently in junior high. I was a little worried when classes started, because I knew – talking with several friends who had already gone through this situation – that it is a difficult time for pre-teens. My friends had told me about the changes their kids had experienced.
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