The TV buzzes in the room but nobody's watching it. They leave it on for hours, ignoring it, like some scatterbrained family member. On the schedule i...

The same thing is happening with the blogosphere as happens with other phenomena of our reality: they try to divide and separate us, throwing out epi...

Exclusive to Huffington Post. While young people around the world enjoyed the music of the sixties, for Cubans it was forbidden to hear anything tha...

Exclusive to Huffington Post. In what I believe to be an exaggeration, Cuba is often compared to North Korea. It's true that Cuban newspapers may be ...

Maybe the heat is the catalyst we have been lacking, the push we need for a lethargic population to demand that the promised openings are not delayed another month.

No, you're not mistaken, the title refers specifically to the birthday of a slogan, a saying for which they want to light another candle. On this isl...

We share the opinion that the isolation of the people of Cuba benefits the most inflexible interests of its government, while any opening serves to inform and empower the Cuban people.

Who would have thought, just a few years ago, that the austere newspaper Granma would open a section that would become its most read and commented on...

Our rulers in their olive-green have not allowed this specialized inspection agency to examine the prisons, because they feel that our system of incarceration "does not need an endorsement."

In theory, I meet all the existing requirements to temporarily leave Cuba, but I am still emitting critical opinions and this turns me into a special kind of criminal. I have been denied permission to travel six times in two years.

Huffington Post readers: Freedom and Exchange in Communist Cuba, an essay which won a prize in Mexico's TV Azteca "Paths to Freedom" contest, is no...

Exclusive to Huffington Post. The Catholic Church in Cuba seems determined to play a new social role in the face of the inevitable changes that lie ...

Without intending it, the police have given us the crudest testimony they could about our present reality. A succession of scenes that, no doubt, will be stored in the visual memory of this country.

Very soon, in just a few weeks, hundreds of thousands of Cubans will take their summer vacations, among them the students who will enjoy almost two m...

The man entered the small El Condor bookstore whose shop window faces the wall that borders the University of Zurich. "I am looking for books by Corin Tellado," he whispered softly.

Fifty years after the start of a social process that was to reform all of Cuban society, women are still waiting their turn on the crowded agenda of necessary changes.

I have avoided writing about this thorny issue of the deterioration of the educational system for fear, I confess, that my child would feel the affects of the opinions of his mother. But now I can't take it any more.

A bluish-colored vase has stood for a couple of days between the plants in our garden, fourteen stories up. We still don't have a clear idea of what ...

Last night they announced the results of the contest organized by Coexistence, which awarded prizes in the categories of essay, audiovisual script, poetry, fiction and photography.