Not only is the future of Venezuela decided in its ballot boxes, but also our future. Thus, the results of the election were felt immediately all around us, even though the official media did not reflect the thrill that ran through the Island, from one end to end.

Under the seat one could see a patched grab bag, like those given to people who went on missions in the 1980s. Every time the bus jerked over a poth...

Vargas Llosa and his literature are responsible, in a direct and "premeditated" way, for much of who I am today: for my matrimonial happiness and my aversion to totalitarianism, for my betrayal of philology and approach to journalism.

In many stores, when this contact cement comes in you'd think they were having a big sale. People buy dozens of tubes, as if its great adherent power could glue together a reality cracked by frustration.

Today's guest post is from Cuban writer, photographer and blogger, Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo. Our Vargas Llosa who art in Nobel... by Orlando Luis Pard...

Two weeks into the Tarara Pioneers camp and my sister and I would return home talking about our dips in the ocean. But this time it would be differe...

Some make figurines out of paper, others string colored beads on a necklace that never ends, or paste pieces of fabric onto an infinite quilt. Occupat...

A zinc roof tile flies off, performing an incredible choreography in the air before falling onto the roof of another building. The winds of the tropic...

A relic of crumbling Soviet era architecture along the Malecon, Havana's waterfront boulevard and seawall Exclusive to Huffington Post Rarely does a...

Photo: Guillermo Farinas with a few of the Ladies in White, taken during his successful hunger strike to free Cuba's political prisoners. It's diff...

He was wearing a cap pulled down over his ears, but I still recognized in his face the features of the former vice president. Carlos Lage passed in fr...

Exclusive to the Huffington Post. Fortunately I had few illusions left, because otherwise I would have felt cheated a couple of weeks ago when I wa...

Ministry of Agriculture Building in Havana Ten in the morning. In those hallways where last week people gathered and chatted during working hours, ...