Recently 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.
Read MoreWhen in 2010 I wrote about corruption and what happened to me became general knowledge, it was inevitable that many people worried. Nobody ever understood how it was possible to take a political step of the nature that was taken against the denunciation that was made.
Read MoreIn three days of speeches by dozens of Congressmembers, governors, mayors, public figures, and carefully chosen members of the public the environment has been mentioned a grand total of one time. What’s more, it was not a Democrat who spoke up for Mother Earth either.
Read MoreOn the Cuban TV news, they often talk about of the global economic crisis. “What evil walks the world!” we say to ourselves in front of the set. The images they show us of capitalist societies are stunning: massive joblessness, increasing taxes and sky rocketing costs of living.
Read MoreI started asking myself this question three years ago. I was in Central Park in Old Havana, seated a few yards from the place where many people, mostly men, gather to argue about baseball, soccer and volleyball – or about Michael Jackson’s death at that particular time.
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