This is not the chronicle of a woman who manages to escape from her abusive husband, nor the story of a teenager who runs away from authoritarian par...

For many, finally getting their own home encouraged them to commit themselves even more to the official discourse and their public stance moved a little closer to unconditional support.

Twenty years ago our streets began to fill with bicycles and empty of cars. It wasn't in fashion to protect the environment, nor to get exercise, ra...

Those who today form the Union of Young Communists were born in a period when toys were not seen in the ration shops and they could only drink milk, legally, until they were seven.

Just yesterday, on the eve of the presentation in Chile of a compilation of my blog posts under the title Cuba Libre, I received a report from the Cu...

The words Raul Castro delivered last Sunday have brought us trenches, parapets and apocalyptic images of an Island sinking into the sea.

Are we witnessing the collapse of the interior walls that isolate us from each other? How many more would be willing to set aside insult and sit down and talk?

The desire to be competitive was punished with labels very difficult to expunge from our dossiers, accusations such as self-sufficient or immodest.

In a seemingly never ending cycle there are frequent announcements of remedies that will invigorate our economy. This time, from the perspective of those who will be left without jobs, it can be summarized in one word: unemployment.

Where there's smoke, there's fire. The closing of the Rio Zaza factory smells of greenbacks, embezzlement, and has the stench of corruption.

Special to Huffington Post. Never before has a document managed to collect so many signatures calling for improvements in human rights in Cuba. Wha...

The point is that the government knows that people steal from every workplace, but they also understand that closing all the conduits of this ransacking would create a climate of great social tension.

"No one can save you from fifteen years," threatened the officer, while asserting that sending an SMS to someone with such a strange name who lived so far away was a crime of enormous proportions.

With the coming of the 90s, many children who had been guardians of the elections evolved into young people who annulled their ballots with statements in between exclamation marks.

With a tight sweater and gel-smeared hair, he offers his body for only twenty convertible pesos a night. His face, with its high cheekbones and slant...

He had repaired all types of books, from Bibles to incunabula with pages on the point of turning to dust. He was very good at returning to their plac...