From: ssl.panoramio.com She carries a name that evokes encampments, and I am just a Sanchez, dragging the “ez” ending that once meant to be “the son of” some Sancho. Yes, like that chubby guy on the ...
Image taken from http://krusay.blogspot.ca/ What is an academic? What is an intellectual? These are some of the questions that have haunted me for years, even before I graduated in Hispanic Philology...
Image from www.clasificadosdecuba.net He was awarded it as a perk based on merit, paying a subsidized price in 1975, the same year as the first Communist Party Congress. He won the chance to buy that...
The market is almost empty. It’s still very early and someone is writing the new prices for a pound of pork on a blackboard. It seems a simple gesture, that of the hand that has changed only one digi...
I wasn’t yet old enough to go to school and I was at the park the neighbors in the area called “Carlos III,” although the maps insisted on labeling it “Carlos Marx.” My sister and I were playing in t...
During the last week, the official media have greatly emphasized the origin and workings of the Red Cross in Cuba. Around May 8th, the founding date of this humanitarian body, they published several ...
On the ground, turned over, and with a huge hole in the bottom, lies the dumpster on the corner. It was put there just months ago, with its bulky gray body ready to swallow the garbage. But it didn’t...
"Unanimity" - An artwork in a Havana gallery. The last time the Plaza of the Revolution was full, crammed with people, was when Benedicto XVI offered his homily in Havana. The television br...
I knew they would go after him. When I spoke with José Daniel Ferrer for the first time, by phone, I immediately noticed his exceptionality. Shortly after, we talked around the table in our house and...
He holds the microphone pressed to his mouth and his dreadlocks swing restlessly across his back. Raudel Collazo is on stage: sweating, singing, talking, the whole time a chorus of applause joining t...
Pieces of wood, big rocks, and in places pieces of concrete at the seashore. We are on a school break. Mothers and children who want to go to the zoo, the aquarium or some other recreation area crowd...
The balustrades are shaped like naked women and the wrought iron gate is topped with stone slabs. The garden barely has room for a couple of feet of grass from which a diminutive Pekinese barks all d...
A child of five starts school, but a blog of the same age has already taken more daring steps. Today I am making an effort to remember that quiet and fearful woman, from before April 9, 2007, who cre...
Cuban children at morning assembly reciting, "Pioneers for Communism, we will be like Che" REUTERS/Desmond Boylan. (Image: http://www.noticias24.com) Last week I ran into an Italian friend ...
From: www.skyscrapercity.com After the storm, may also come the storm, the hurricane, the tornado. A few days ago we thought the punishment would be concentrated between Monday and Wednesday of last ...
Dr. Jeovany Jimenez on the 11th day of his hunger strike Guanajay has a central park that looks like one of a larger town and a gazebo with the majesty of an entire capital. Right there, for 28 days,...
Source: www.elheraldo.hn/ In that January of 1998, at the end of John Paul II’s Mass in the Plaza of the Revolution, a fresh wind swept over the vast esplanade. My son was sitting on the shoulders of...
The interior stairs of a building collapse on the same corner where the socialist character of the Revolution was declared. A desperate group of thirteen people occupy the Church of Charity in Centra...
Image taken from www.iabcrew.com She climbs the stairs of the plane, in her handbag she carries glasses, a bit of a sandwich she couldn’t finish eating, and the passport that identifies her as a Span...
At times with good intentions – other times with not so good – someone tries to silence my complaints about the machismo in my country, telling me, “Cuban women don’t have it so badly… those in some ...
A few yards from the Plaza de San Francisco are the glamorous display windows of the Via Uno store. Leather shoes with spike heels, a bit useless for the uneven sidewalks of Havana. Pleated bags with...
The concrete base made by the neighbors themselves to house the generator. It arrived in March 2006, in a few days before April launched its frenetic downpours against us. It came in a truck, immacul...
Several months ago a friend gave me this magnificent manual entitled “Toolbox for citizen control of corruption.” Accompanied by a CD with numerous practical examples, I have read it in search of ans...
Miriam Celaya is second from right in the right hand photo. Images taken from www.europapress.es y cambiosencuba.blogspot.com/ I turned on the TV, in one of those fits of credulity which now and then...
Sunrise on 5th Avenue. The cars traveling fast and on the diplomatic license plates white letters stand out against a black background. The trees of the central promenade display their pruned leaves ...
Lost in the metaphor, the good intellectual avoids approaching the reality through which the universal will make his work more transcendent than the local. He hides, in some symbolic passage of his t...
Will there be microphones here? You ask me while poking your head into every corner of the room. Don’t worry, I say, my life goes on with my guts on display, letting it all hang out. There is no plac...
Image taken from radiomambi710.univision.com/ In just a few weeks Pope Joseph Ratzinger will arrive in Cuba but we are already breathing something of his incense from a distance. In a country where m...
Commemorative plaque in Havana for the first telephone conversation in Spanish, which occurred in that city on 31 October 1877 It weighs more than a “bad marriage,” my grandmother used to say about t...
Image taken from http://somoslanoticia.com/ “I prefer a million critical voices before the silence of the dictatorships.” Dilma Rousseff Choosing the time for a presidential visit can be ...
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