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

As a child, I used to hear people say, “There are plenty of fathers, but there is only one mother….”...

Anyone who has ever had the pleasure of traveling to Cuba knows that the Miami-to-Havana flight goes by almost like...

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

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

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

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...

If you ask me why the name OnCuba the answer is not that simple. But it is precisely this complexity...