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 ...lives in the Vatican. Calle 13.   That’s right: the Pope is Latin American, but he is a Pope. That...

I have a bad habit. I remember important dates with days and sometimes weeks in advance, but a few hours...

When I originally decided to write for this page, conveniently titled Propositions—a responsibility that I took very seriously—the idea was...

Carlos Acosta has debuted as a fiction writer with Pig’s Foot, a novel that charts, they say, the history of...

I know people who think they know everything…. In the name of knowing everything and defending an opinion, judgment or...

Someday Victor Mesa and Ariel Pestano will make it up. Or not. For now, they’ve been able to put in...

The issue of reggaeton has caused a wave of rumours, inquisitive or not, during the last weeks. People are talking...

The decline of Santiago de Cuba is the greatest wrong in Cuban baseball. Not the changing structures, not the low...

The most complex times are about to arrive. Thus, using a farsighted tone, marino Murillo, Vice-President of the Council of...

There are not such irreconcilable months like December and January, perhaps because Christmas is the only opium authorized, scheduled and...

I have always liked patios. The four houses that surrounded mine had large patios that overlapped, forming a giant soccer...

On the other side of the phone , hardly knowing how everything had happened, Israel Rojas talked incessantly, he treated...

The best films I've seen in my personal movie theater of my laptop, alone, presumably at night, but not too...

Bald schon ist Weihnachten und Neujahr... In wenigen Wochen beginnen im Radio und Fernsehen Weihnachtslieder bis zur Ermüdung zu erklingen,...

Christmas and New Year’s are almost here…. In a few weeks, Christmas songs will begin playing on radio and television...

Trotz meiner Geburt in Havanna, der Stadt, in der meine Eltern geboren wurden und lebten, nahmen sie mich in sehr...

Although I was born in Havana, the city where my parents also were born and lived, I was taken to...

My neighbor’s lawn finally grew, the grass took root. It wasn’t due to pure luck or because it was the...

How many times have we heard the question, “a Cuban from where?” followed by the comment, “We Cubans are everywhere!”...

During a recent visit to Havana, I saw, on one of the social networking sites that half the world now...

I had almost finished writing my August editorial, in which I recounted my meeting with Tamara, a honey-skinned, curly-haired Cuban...

We have had bridges since prehistoric times; our need to shorten distances and to cross streams and rivers gave rise...

The June edition of OnCuba is special edition. For me, the subject of Chinese immigration to our beautiful country is...

My neighbor, an elegant man of few words who takes each step as unhurriedly as a sunset, is a very...

Despite being born into an extremely musical family and having learned to read music and play the majority of percussion...