The cost of the cheapest pair of shoes is equivalent to the average monthly wage of any worker. Thus, we must choose between living for thirty days or providing our children with a pair of sneakers, sandals or boots.

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...

In all the schools in the country, today is the ceremony for the first grade students to enroll in the Pioneer organization. Parents accompany their children while they shout the slogan, "Pioneers for communism, we will be like Che."

I don't know if it's my pale skin, but my passport is just as blue and Cuban as the one he has. If not for his false impression that I'm a foreigner, he'd never come close to me.