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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...

I really don’t remember the exact day of this incident—a conversation that ended up with a scar on the head...

In Violeta the land is red, intense, sticky red.Those who know say it is good land, fertile. Violeta  lives its...

A friend of social networks told me (via chat) that life of each man can be an exciting novel. "In...

Most likely, Johannes Zukertort would have not exchanged his kingdom for a horse, but would have given his life in...

Che Guevara died; his portrait was on the cover of Life magazine. There are few faces as intimidating as the...

The bus stopped at the road from Guantanamo to Santiago de Cuba. A malfunction had to be fixed and it...

Last Friday, President Barack Obama made a historical phone call to President Hassan Rouhani of the Islamic Republic of Iran....

Occasionally, on my blog or in some other lost chronic, I have talked about ¨La Gallega ¨, the neighbor of...

Nobody ever imagine how much optimism and passion that Danish had in his soul. His name was Bent Larsen, and...

Four of the five Cuban security agents imprisoned in the United States, serving visibly excessive sentences for the legal violations they committed still remain there. Among manydecent reasons, which were then publicly crucified with laudatory campaigns and posters, one might...

My dad used to say that I lived making up stories. "This kid has a lot of imagination," he told...

He loved music and chess. For the first he had a magnificent baritone voice, through which he offered concerts during...

A few days ago, while I was reading news about the city where I live and the city where I...

The very recent Saturday August 17 the Spanish newspaper El País was referring to the conflicts faced by public television...

David is much younger than me, is a better dancer (anybody is a better dancer), and smokes and knows as...

I don’t always have a clear idea of what I’m going to say when I sit down to write my...

A few days ago I got an unexpected call, one of those that you don’t feel like answering because you sense...

What surprises me after two readings of ¨Los límites del texto: autoría y autoridad en Borges¨ , newly edited by...

On Cuban filmmaker Ian Padron can be said that "he has a very fastball." This baseball image becomes meaningful in...