I’m a big fan of video games. But only the ones where there’s strategy involved. I’m not interested in that car racing stuff and I hate games with a military theme. I played my first game when I was two, that’s what my mother says. The mouse was huge in my tiny hands but my eyes were glued to the screen.
Read MoreWhen there’s a lot to say, it’s better to write little. When it comes to the award-winning Uruguayan writer Daniel Chavarria, who has lived among us for so long, it was unfortunate to hear about the slip he made by denying proven facts concerning the repression of homosexuals in Cuba.
Read MoreFormer President Fidel Castro, 86, made a surprise speech to the Cuban parliament on Sunday, the day his younger brother Raul Castro, 81, was reelected to another 5-year term as president and Miguel Diaz-Canel promoted to the first vice president’s post.
Read MoreIf Yoani Sanchez — with fine irony — thought that a vice president under 80 years of age would be a good sign of renewal, I think February 24 gave her more than that. Frankly I think the whole electoral process gave some very interesting signals about where Cuban society is moving.
Read MoreAgainst their own forecasts, dissidents Yoani Sanchez, Eliecer Avila and the daughter of Osvaldo Paya left Cuba – all benefiting from the new immigration reforms that opened the island’s doors after 50 years of extremely cumbersome and expensive procedures.
Read MoreWhen I heard that passports were going to be given to some opposition figures who had described the island as a prison, and later when a friend told me how easy it was for doctors to get permission to travel, I went back to my computer to read what I had been written on the subject since the Cuban president announced immigration reform.
Read MoreCuba has just concluded its general elections, and in their wake is the reflection of Guillermo Rodriguez, a revolutionary intellectual who is questioning some aspects of his country’s electoral system and is calling for more and better opportunities for participation.
Read MoreArlety is a friend of our family who we haven’t seen in a long time. She was an athlete who remained in Europe when she went there on tour with the Cuban team. Like all professional-level athletes and doctors on internationalist missions who decided not to return, she was considered a traitor and would never be allowed to set foot on the land of her birth.
Read MoreI just read an article published in Havana Times entitled “Progressive Struggles from Below, A Real Possibility,” by Dmitri Prieto. Although I’ve never taken the time to respond to what’s written about me or my work, this time I feel the obligation to do so.
Read MoreApart from two cousins serving on international missions in Africa, I don’t have any other family members abroad who I yearn to see. I do have friends on every continent. Most are old friends from college who now find themselves in the most unlikely spots on the planet.
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