We are in the middle of a theater festival and this helps us escape the boring programming on television and the limited recreational choices, almost...
"I stopped for you because you're white," the taxi driver tells me after the tires screech in Reina Street around midnight. From his wide mulatto lip...
Near 23rd Street, just at the Avenida de los Presidentes roundabout, we saw a black car, made in China, pull up with three heavily built strangers. "Y...
After an attack there are certain myopics who blame the victim herself for what happened. If it is a woman who has been raped, someone explains that ...
This prose-poem guest column was written by Orlando Luis Pardo, who was kidnapped and beaten together with me on the evening of November 6.
After what happened last Friday--my kidnapping and beating by plainclothes State Security agents--I decided to bring to light a series of pictures of people who watch and harass me.
This guest column was written by Miriam Celaya, whose blog, Without Evasion, recently won the prize for Best Journalism Blog in the Virtual Island con...
These pots, which were the latest objects of worship of a paternalistic government, are no longer sold; today, once again, they are offered by alternative artisans in the street at whatever price they care to demand.
As the Cuban population has aged, the senile worry about preserving memories has displaced the restless creativity of youth.
A few days ago the foreign press revealed that when the Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos traveled to Havana, a message from the America...
The conflict between Cuba and the United States not only prevents our peoples from establishing smooth relations, but also determines the steps needed for the transformation of our society.
I submitted seven questions to the American president, Barack Obama. He kindly took the time to respond; following are the answers I received from the White House.
The images of what happened yesterday, in G Street, with my husband, Reinaldo Escobar, and other friends are, to me, too reminiscent of repudiation rallies of 1980. Look for yourself and tell me if it doesn't seem the same.
Continuing my periodic posting of the work of my fellow bloggers, I am posting here today the most recent essay by Miriam Celaya, where she discusses the role of bloggers in the politics of Cuba today.
The sun hasn't come out all day and a downpour constantly forces us to duck into some doorway or stay at home. One might think that in a tropical co...
Nations that develop under the guidance of a paternalistic state run the risk of leaving their people in a kind of stagnated adolescence. The case of Cuba is one of the paradigmatic examples.
More and more people are pointing a finger at the true origin of Cuba's problems and, though it comes as a surprise to the champions of the battle, their fingers do not appear to be pointing abroad.
