In Cuba, the word "revolution" is absent from popular predictions for the new year, as the majority of citizens no longer consider it a dynamic entity. When they refer to the prevailing model in the country they do so as if it were a straightjacket.

The Great Blackout by Pedro Pablo Oliva Pinar del Rio is a city without movie theaters, an urban place where cars barely pass and at night the stre...

She was an attorney at a business in Camagüey until the Day of the Magi, when her gift was a layoff notice. Disheartened, she took home her plastic d...

The Prince Claus Award is an award that looks forward, a stimulus that invites dreams and the setting of higher goals. This year, 2011, could be the stage to realize some journalistic challenges.

For weeks they were afraid they would appear on the list of layoffs on the wall, the list of names of those who -- at that hospital -- would be left ...

There are two men on the corner. One is wearing an earphone while the other peers into the door of a building. All the neighbors know perfectly well w...

With their colorful covers and nylon sleeves, the new supply of CDs and DVDs fills every corner of my city. Selling music, TV series and movies is one...

The business generates a network of corruption and earnings of incalculable size. Everyone leaves happy: the roller, the guard, the illegal seller and... the State? OK... but who cares?

The souvenir and craft market near the port vibrates, full of life on this day. It's Sunday and the tourists circulate among the wood carvings, leathe...

The snack bar on 13th between F and G -- that afternoon on December -- is full of security agents and admirers. The first are the ones who follow this...

He bought a box of strong cigars though he doesn't smoke, a cloth bag for errands, though he already had one, and two boring copies of Granma on the s...

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For more than two years the fiber optic cable between Cuba and Venezuela has been the carrot dangled before the eyes of the inhabitants of this disconnected Island.

Our ancient metropolis is condemned to immobility in a long and narrow country where trains were introduced even earlier than in Spain.

He cleared his throat before explaining why they were meeting, in the sober drama that is rarely seen anymore. In his hands he held, like a script, th...