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“They work. They resemble fine silversmiths in everything they do, in wood, in mother-of-pearl, as gunsmiths, in textiles, in painting,...

Just a few weeks ago I met the ambassador of Japan to Cuba, Masaru Watanabe. We wanted to talk to...

Three apparently indirectly related news items motivated these lines. Not too long ago the magazine Nature, one of the most...

Some historians say that sugar entered Cuba by Puerto Güincho, in Nuevitas, Camagüey, coming from the neighbor island Hispaniola. It...

The news that the intricate village of Motembo, in Villa Clara, could rise up out of anonymity and play a...

Lately our mailboxes are receiving messages of support, concern and suggestions sent by readers and followers of OnCuba from all...

Having a development plan that runs until 2030 does not mean that in 2030 Cuba will be a developed country....

If we could calculate how much, in terms of lost revenue, services no longer lent, and interrupted labour, we would...

Antuan is a very good friend, a successful and well-known man in business and politics, he seems to have it...

Cuba did not arrive at Obama’s presidential visit with its head bowed and hands supplicating. It arrived, that’s correct, with...

Today I’d like to do one of those ‘close your eyes and imagine’ exercises. I’d like to think of some...

After growing 4{bb302c39ef77509544c7d3ea992cb94710211e0fa5985a4a3940706d9b0380de} in 2015, after 1{bb302c39ef77509544c7d3ea992cb94710211e0fa5985a4a3940706d9b0380de} in 2014, the Cuban economy is projected to grow 2{bb302c39ef77509544c7d3ea992cb94710211e0fa5985a4a3940706d9b0380de} in 2016. Reverting...

It’s already been a year since the so-called D17, a transcendental day in which the governments of the United States...

It’s the third time in 17 years that a pope has visited Cuba. Like the previous trips, this most recent...

By the time you get this edition of OnCuba, Cuba and the United States will have their respective embassies open....

His knees hurt very much; they were like two old rusty hinges. He could hardly see. His tears became condensed...

A very young Cuban artist approached me recently to say hi, and he used the opportunity to make a comment...

It was 6:58 a.m. when the phone rang. I was meditating and I jumped. I never put the phone on...

I don’t remember the date very well; it must have been wintertime in the late 1970s or early 80s. We...

I have recently noted an avalanche of young Cubans who have exchanged the island for Miami’s beaches and nightlife. Precisely...

My first and I think only girlfriend (I do not count, of course, the little girlfriends of primary or secondary)...

I got her call an afternoon that was boring but beautiful, one of those days where you don’t expect or need...

With an import-dependent economy and no major natural resources, and blockaded by the world’s most powerful country, it is easy...

For more than 50 years, my adopted country, the United States, has subjected my native country, Cuba (and even more...

I would guess that he is about 55, maybe 58, but no older…. He needs a few more wrinkles and...