Today I woke up to the noise of the loudspeakers shouting slogans and the horns of the buses that would be taking thousands of the May Day demonstration participants back to their provinces.
A labyrinthine network of counterfeiting and resale undermines the dysfunctional centralization and diverts profits to thousands of private pockets in Cuba.
Cubans talk of the Internet as if it were a mythical and difficult to reach place. An iPhone gave us a piece of modern cyberspace -- we were suddenly able to feel the kilobytes in our hands.
On the corner there is a hydrant which, at night, turns into the water supply for hundreds of families in the area. Even the watercarriers come to it...
The environment of subjugation was once in an old thick-walled prison like that of the La Cabana fortress in Havana Bay. A prison that had previousl...
We will reduce them to obedience to the law. Julio, lawyer More than 60 days ago I sent several Cuban institutions a complaint for illegal detention,...
The Tenth Congress of the National Small Farmers Association concluded yesterday at a very critical time for the Cuban agricultural sector. While on ...
I was 19 and he had died a hundred years earlier. At school we were terrified when the grammar tests asked us to analyze his complex sentences. It wa...
Image taken from: http://amnistiainternacional.periodismohumano.com/ The voice on the other end of the line dictates a text that will be published i...
To be mentioned in a negative way in the most official program on television was, for any Cuban, the confirmation of her social death. What is happening in this reality where the "media executions" don't work any more?
Eastern European style neighborhoods could not solve the housing crisis in Cuba. Now these "skyscrapers" have finally become a symbol of a bygone era.
Thousands of Havanans travel through the force of their thumbs or, and it amounts to the same thing, by asking drivers at traffic lights to please ta...
Several years ago I met a young woman about to travel outside the country for the first time. She had so many doubts about what she would find on the...
