More than 500,000 Cubans traveled abroad in 2018
A total of 551,908 Cubans traveled abroad for personal reasons in 2018, which represents 20.13% more than the previous year, ...
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Stories and inevitabilities of the tornado in Guanabacoa
"I have to get out of here, I have nothing left," says Danaisy Alfonso as she picks up the clothes ...
August-September
Cubans and their Music It was September 20, 2009, it was Havana, it was Revolution Square, it was 2:00 pm…. ...
What Death Did Not Take From Me
My old man, my beloved old man./ Now you walk clumsily/ as if forgiving the wind./ I am your ...
My Little Arendelle Girl
My daughter is eight years old and has eyes like a hawk. She has surprised me dozens of times ...
Contradictory faces of a hurricane
A hurricane has many faces. Pain, strength, needs, responsibility and even indifference are mixed in the people’s expressions, especially after ...
A Cuban’s long road to Oxford
Her name is Patricia Zulueta Bravo and she dreams with studying for a master’s in Oxford. “From where I come ...
Cuba to vaccinate more than a million persons against flu
Cuba will start a Vaccination Campaign against Seasonal Flu from July 28 to next September 30. During that period 1.04 ...
A Cuban who corresponds with kings and heads of State
“Montevideo, May 11, 2006. It is with great pleasure that I greet you and thank you for your words, which ...
Returning to Havana’s Chinatown
Faded Chinese letters adorn the facades of buildings in Havana’s Chinatown. On the streets below, Cubans dressed in faux Chinese ...
Miami is over, but there’s still Prague
“They’re going to leave anyway. There’s the custom of leaving. If since January they can’t enter the United States so ...
From a train window
There is an endearing landscape for many Cubans: that you can see from a train window. Although the train is ...
Maria Emilia: a 115 year old Cuban woman
Sitting in front of the sacrarium in a wheelchair Maria Emilia hear Mass every Sunday morning at nine o'clock in ...
Cubans a year after December 17
A year has passed since Barack Obama and Raúl Castro announced, in parallel transmissions, the reestablishment of diplomatic relations between ...
Yunier Carracedo. Mechanic
Finding a Doctor Frankenstein and visiting his laboratory is not an everyday thing. (Although, to be honest, this stand-in for ...
Miguel Chamorro: Looking at the world upside down
I made a colossal blunder, perhaps heresy. I asked Miguel Chamorro Rocamora what the three letters on the girl's sweater ...
Retirements
At the time of farewell, idols nod slightly, look at the public that acclaims them and undertake the final journey ...
Everything started in a garbage dump
At 30 feet deep Ortelio was lost of Yami´s sight. He went down at 9 am and went up at ...
People: When the 1990s entered her doctor´s office
Asthma was squeezing his lungs, but the doctor could not see his bluish face. Rather, the wan light of the ...
Inside the skin: “From nostalgia, frustration and joy”
"He is intuitive and original, and could belong either to the American tradition of experimental jazz, Afro-Cuban religious culture or ...
People: The year we ate the furniture
One day I no longer had anything to cook with, or where to look for firewood. Maria Cureaux moved around ...
People : The special cost of the period
I remember when we said Special Period in the house; Mari put a pretty weird face, opened her big eyes ...
People: Eleven thousand cups of coffee and a flower
For the last 30 years, she wakes up next to the same man. Every morning, the "good-day" kiss, the nightgown ...
Eduardo Estévez Soto: Ascetic
I admit that before I personally met Eduardo, I imagined him as a thin, bearded, long-haired man with much inner ...
Cuba, a country where borders fade
Jossette Pellé, Stanislav Verbov, Pilar Fernández and José Amoscótegui were born at different times and in different parts of the ...
