Cuba in a Matchbox
Prometheus, god of fire, grant me light. I’m not asking for something as volatile as lighter fluid. I ask only for a simple box of matches.
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Recent Entries
Latin American Intellectuals and Today’s Thinking
There seem to be some common denominators that mark Latin American intellectuals’ identity and public actions.
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Cuba’s Ornamental Gardens are Dying Again
History repeats itself, improvements weren’t founded on a solid foundation. The system fears relaxing the reins hindering our development.
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Going Hungry in Cuba
Everybody knows that rice is the main staple of the Cuban diet. Although somebody [Diaz-Canel] ridiculously said that lemons are the staple.
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A Sad and Touching Story
Diana’s story is perhaps one of many. However, my family and I have experienced it firsthand and suffered as a result… she is our neighbor.
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Trap Music and Practicing Tolerance
Blasting music can be heard again during the COVID-19 lockdown. Some things never change; the only thing we can do is be tolerant.
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Cuba’s San Isidro Movement: Between Poetry & Death
How can it be? Because Cuba has become a country of excesses. And poetry has turned out to be a very serious matter.
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Barter for Intimacy
In one of the apartments she cleans she met an older man who would flatter her about her attractive figure, great body…
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Reasons Why I’m Proud to be Cuban
Elio Delgado Legon writes about the reasons he feels very proud to be Cuban. He notes events before and after the 1959 revolution.
Read more Hypocrisy on Both Sides of the Florida Strait
I ran into an acquaintance this week, who was celebrating Democrat candidate Joe Biden’s presidential win. I’ll tell you how our talk went.
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