While the purchase of thousands of Yutong buses, some years ago, was intended to solve transportation in Cuba, moving from one place to another on the Island is still an odyssey.
The new ration book surprised us at the end of December, just when speculation was growing about the demise of this booklet with its grid-paper pages.
Lacking any protection, Cubans enter the General Customs of the Republic where they pay the price of return. A chalk mark on the suitcase signals who ...
Today I would like to introduce as a guest blogger Laritza Diversent, a young woman who has been blogging for some time but only recently has had her ...
Last year, the Cuban government expropriated the patio of Karina Galvez, one of a digital magazine's editors, in a ridiculous attempt to punish her and her colleagues.
More than five years ago a sensual and extroverted rhythm flooded all the nightclubs discos in the country. It arrived accompanied by an unabashed p...
Why physically eliminate an individual who writes uncomfortable truths if you can annul them with the red pen of the censor? Why kill them if you have all the tools to tame them?
The year I was born the first Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba was held and the centralization of trade and services became absolute. The only...
I go out with several sweaters and a very old scarf wrapped around my neck. The errand is short, but with the temperature so low every step I take is ...
This is not the time to play politics with the pain, nor to step in front of the microphones promising help, but rather to come to their aid unconditionally, without desire for recognition or gratitude.
The crazies are easy prey for the cunning, who shout painful taunts at them from street corners to exacerbate their delirium. We had one on my block w...
Today's guest blogger is Ivan Garcia, a freelance journalist since 1995; Ivan's blog, Desde La Habana: Ivan's File Cabinet, has recently been transla...
Today the frozen funds drama touches many businessmen who, after the 1995 passage of the Foreign Investment Law, were ready to invest in our economy.
Domestic life imposes unpleasant obligations. The faucet leaks, the lamp refuses to light the room, the lock on the door sticks, and one evil day, horrors!, the refrigerator breaks down.
It has been a long time since our identity has been contained on one Island. Being born and raised on this elongated territory is no longer the main...
How can a citizen protect himself from a State that has the police, the courts, the rapid response brigades, the mass media, the power to socially lynch him and turn him into someone defeated and apologetic?
