The 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.
Read More“The opposite isn’t the enemy,” writes a young Cuban philosopher, Boris Gonzalez, full of concern about Cuba’s current situation and prospects. That thought inspired me to write this article.
Read MoreThe news of bringing in new animals from Namibia has aroused the ire of anti-Castrist elements, who say that the animals already in Cubans zoos are starving. In response to these allegations, the zoo’s management invited a group of foreign correspondents to verify the quality of their facilities.
Read MoreOne can write both pros and cons in relation to Ernesto “Che” Guevara, such a dramatic figure in world history.
Read MoreWhat conclusion should I draw? If something occurs in the United States, without the citizens there complaining (or despite their complaints) then it is fine for the rest of the world? If rights are violated in the United States then it’s okay to violate them here in Cuba?
Read MoreWhen I was a child, I wouldn’t have accepted anyone telling me that there was racism in Cuba. In school, it was instilled in us that in our country there was no prostitution, poverty, drug addiction or racism.
Read MoreAs someone who was who was born and raised in the countryside, I knew of instances in which teens and young people with vocations for music but were never able to hold an instrument in their hands or pay a teacher to teach them, not even the basics of this field.
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