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A Toy Car

Those present roared with laughter because we knew that he was referring to the fact that this sound system had arrived in Cuba when it was already antiquated technology, but for us it was a something new.

X Alfonso

The idea that moves through this theme from one end to the other is that all of us, at some moment, have been fallen angels, souls that come to us from another dimension. With pure souls, we fall into this world built by the greed of other angels who lost their wings a long time ago, but who adapted.

My Neighborhood Veggie Market

The “plaza” in my neighborhood —where the State sells its agricultural products— has more rallying power than Havana’s Revolution Square itself.

The Computer of the Cuban Family

The use and application of computers in the most varied spheres over the last twenty years —even in the most unimagined activities— has had a tremendous impact on the lives of people around the world. In Cuba, an underdeveloped socialist country, this process has had its own characteristics.

Cuba’s Silvio Rodriguez & Whirlwind

Silvio Rodriguez’s songs reflect, they question and enter into dialogue with the most immediate realities. They reach soaring poetic flight and are able to transmit feelings with a tremendous intensity.

My Paunch, How Embarrassing!

People will point it out to me every now and then with a tone of concern, as if I had grown a tail without realizing it, or as if they were breaking the news of some terminal illness.

Democracy As I Understand It

Nothing reminds me more of the army than Cuban schools. They are institutions for the perpetuation of the dominant ideology.

The Dentist’s Chair & Soap Operas

I sat there thinking to myself: Young people have always been the same, with their virtues and defects, with passion and the ideals necessary to make societies advance, with their malleability that makes them conducive to change, and their inexperience that allows them to make understandable mistakes.

Carlos Varela’s ‘Story of a Convertible’

“Two lovers in a pink convertible went to an abandoned drive-in theater. There, they got undressed; mutually surrendering their souls, in silence. The moon, observed them, serenely.”

A Young Woman’s Decision to Leave Cuba

“The first thing is to get settled and establish myself and to later look for some job. I’ll work for any place that pays me enough money to rent an apartment and buy things for myself – something I haven’t been able to do here.”