I’m someone who thinks that aggression of any kind is bad and that it doesn’t lead anywhere. The worst thing is that I can see violence is increasing here these days, especially among younger people. I’ve unwittingly found myself in the middle of unwanted situations.
Read MoreThe European Union — like the United States — has allies and half-friends with whom I’d avoid sharing a coffee. This is because they either have oil (the Saudi case), or because they are key geopolitical pieces (the Israeli case), or simply because they’re creditors (the in the case of China; which has no embargo or Common Position, not even the slightest bit of displeasure is shown).
Read MoreWhile others were laughing and bending their elbows there in a bar in Havana, I was perplexed by the almost endless minutes of the video I had just unexpectedly seen there.
Read MoreThe massive destruction caused by Hurricane Sandy in New York, New Jersey and elsewhere in the United States prevented the media from reporting about another massive destruction that has crippled Santiago de Cuba and placed nearly one million people on the brink of economic collapse and created even greater uncertainty about the future of this 500-year-old city.
Read MoreIn Cuba, we wouldn’t have needed to talk about reforestation if the land hadn’t been deforested to clear it to plant sugarcane, build cities and roads and for livestock grazing and the planting of crops.
Read MoreEvery Sunday, two Jehovah’s Witnesses come to my house. At first the visits weren’t welcomed because that’s the day I try to take care of a lot of my outstanding “stuff,” so I hardly have time to talk. But one of the young women is nice, and it’s a pleasure to listen to her.
Read MoreThe months of thorny legal claims that resulting from my teenage son not being allowed to go to school because of his long hair are over. I felt relief that he decided to drop out of high school. He’ll look for other alternatives to studying and I gave up on appealing the case at more asphyxiating offices.
Read MoreAdela was just elected to the People’s Power (town council) in the municipality of Caibarien, Cuba. It was a long hard road to get there.
Read MoreOn Monday morning I could hear the sound of my neighbor’s alarm clock as if it were in our house. It was 5:00 a.m. as Martha slid out of bed, discouraged, muttering to herself, “Another day of battle.”
Read MoreThe imprisonment and persecution of Cuban activist Antonio Rodiles has broken the chain of short-term express arrests that had typified the new Cuban government’s methods of repressing the opposition.
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