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Tourism experts should add a new reason to their vast portfolio for why people in Cuba want to travel abroad: quite simply to sort out consular papers and suitcases so they can leave, almost always for good.

In Havana’s Miramar neighborhood, the local population in the area known as La Puntilla, had been warned days ago by the municipal government and Communist party, that they would hear loud explosions and bursts of fire on Sunday, as they were going to simulate a landing here where the sea joins our not very mighty Almendares River.

At least it happened between brothers, who normally know how to forgive any difference between them, who manage to understand each other with just a gesture.

There isn’t a time in the day here in Cuba when we don’t have to look at our wallets with sadness or up at the heavens. Our baseball players normally do the latter when they hit a home run, they lift their arms and eyes up to the infinite heavens, thanking God Almighty, when they haven’t ever stepped foot inside a church.

In a little less than 40 days Cubans will be voting on the constitutional referendum that is being debated throughout the country and on social networks — an authentic and silent duel pitting those who will vote Yes and those who favor the No.