Sexual offenses seem to be one of the world’s thorny issues today. I am constantly reading of gang-rapes involving a woman, a teenager or a little girl, about victims who commit suicide and even about rapists who publicly boast of their crime.
Read MoreCarolina is not the first and won’t be the last Cuban woman to leave behind her roots, her family and her country by immigrating to the United States. Many have done the same over the last fifty years. Some are able to visit their country shortly thereafter; others never set foot on the island again.
Read MoreThe dynamics that every revolution puts in practice are too complex to be predictable, but in more established groups of thought, the mechanisms of empowerment begin articulating automatically. This is a natural law.
Read More’ve never understood people’s addiction to coffee. I love its smell, and I find it delicious with milk or cream, but it’s almost impossible for me to drink it by itself. No matter how much sugar I add, there’s no way for it not to be unbearably bitter to me. That’s what I thought until this past Sunday.
Read MoreWhenever I hear someone complain about how bad it is Cuba, if it’s one of those people who fought, convinced of what we have today (or about the promises blown away by the wind), I’ll note that in times of greatest political upheaval, many useful details go overlooked.
Read MoreFor the entire month of March, Havana’s Rita Montaner Theatre Co. is presenting an adaptation of “Two Sides of the Coin”), “We invite you to sit down on this ‘wall on the Malecon’ — the great character on this stage production — and from it, look out at the horizon. Seeing the sun? …as well as its spots?”
Read MoreAs of Wednesday we’re allowed to leave, but in Cuba we’re proceeding with caution in this matter. Where will they accept us? How much is our money and our resourcefulness worth? Nothing is certain or made easy for us, since several consulates have already increased their requirements for issuing a visa.
Read MoreWhen a friend leaves Cuba, it’s as if they’ve died. The relationship that had started at a bus stop or in a classroom suddenly dissolves into the past and nothing else grows after the moment of their departure.
Read MoreI believe that Cuba, like any other country in the world, has the right and is obliged to defend its human resources and the investments it has been made in them. But it cannot do this in just any manner…
Read MoreWhen I was a child, my mother and I would talk about scientific discoveries that were increasingly revealing. This made us affirm one thing: Science would prove that God exists. This hypothesis was somewhat funny, but recently I learned about it in one of those documentaries on the Discovery program.
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