Speaking of relations between Cuba and the United States has been and still is a delicate issue whether in Havana...

When Donald Trump won the elections last November, we all felt we would have four years of a lot of...

It was 11:00 am when my name was called. There were a great many of us, hundreds of men; of...

There are few things that arouse so many emotions in a Cuban living outside Cuba as seeing a photo, hearing...

Is Donald Trump good or bad for Cuba? This is the question of the moment, for which it seems no...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...