After watching a documentary about North Korea, when I went out into the street and looked around, I was relieved to have been born in Cuba. But I had forgotten that comparisons can be misleading. Very soon afterwards I had the opportunity to remember that.
Read MoreSupporters of the Cuban group Participative and Democratic Socialism (SPD) are calling on citizens to take part in “an affirmative action for democracy” in the upcoming general elections to take place in October.
Read MoreChildhood memories still bind me to this great island continent, seventy times the size of ours. When I was young we had a little library-room in our house and I’d gaze at the big map of Australia my father got from the National Geographic Magazine.
Read MoreHow many times have you ever told yourselves that you have a bad memory, because you forget relevant dates, or events like the birthday of some person you care about, or where you are keeping an important document.
Read MoreRecently I heard an item on the television news that left me open-mouthed. According to the reporter, Granma is the hottest province in Cuba due to its geographic position, since the sun’s ultraviolet rays reach this territory with greater intensity.
Read MoreIn July I underwent emergency appendicitis surgery at the military hospital located in the Marianao neighborhood, in western Havana. I got there in the middle of the night with severe pain and a doctor on duty immediately treated me.
Read MoreA while ago I had found out that, thanks to the activism from both within and outside CENESEX (the National Center for Sex Education) — in addition to the LGBT movement around the world generating money in some environments — a project has started that’s called “El Divino” (The Divine).
Read MoreIlliteracy was eradicated in Cuba in 1961 and the full responsibility for education was assumed by the state, which offers it free of charge at all levels and in all areas of instruction. By law, all children must attend school until the ninth grade.
Read MoreAs the result of an activity on Children’s Day, I became interested in a “social club” that I, as a worker in the health care sector, have the right to enjoy. The clubs started in the 1950s and were nationalized after the 1959 Cuban revolution.
Read MoreIn some sectors of Cuban society, homophobia is at such a level that it’s not enough to deny legal rights to same-sex couples, now they don’t even want to take a census of the ones that currently exist even without the permission of laws or churches.
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