Women: Perserverance and Firmness

I have lost count of how many times I have asked myself the same question: Who invented the philosophy that the female sex is weak? Sometimes, as product of voluntary error, we believe that strength is defined by carrying, pushing, or sustaining a fixed weight. Human civilization, however, has given women more of a lead [...]

Moratinos and Havana

The illustrious Spanish minister of foreign affairs, Miguel Angel Moratinos, has returned to the scene. He has declared his absolute position towards the European bloc and Havana through his eagerness of encouraging the European Union, Spain, and Cuba to engage in dialogue, according to the news report made by the state-run Granma newspaper. Besides being [...]

In Cuba we live to Work

Image: Thomas Hart Benton; “Field Workers”, 1945. I never chose to write about the field of economics. My philosophy is that in order to approach the themes of economics one must at least have an idea of the subject. Of course, we Cubans living on the island have become magicians of sorts in order to [...]

With God and with the Devil

For me, music and sports are universal languages which reflect the societies in which they develop. This island, which is at the mercy of the Caribbean ocean and is considered to be the key of the Gulf due to its geographic location, is currently living through days of baseball euphoria- the national sport and passion [...]

Deaf and Mute

Image: Edvard Munch- The Scream There is no worse deaf person than he who wishes not to hear, the same way that there is no worse mute than he who wishes not to speak. This game of words which seems like a tongue-twister reminds me of my favorite professor, Reinaldo Exposito, who would teach me [...]

Terrorist Attacks in Russia

Without even having fully recovered from a previous terrorist attack, Russia was once again slammed by the desperate extremism of those who still think that the solutions for the problems of a country, an ethnicity, or a race should be resolved through the most dramatic and drastic of ways that currently exist. Once again, the [...]

Declaration

We, the political prisoners of conscience from the cause of the 75 of the Black Spring that find ourselves imprisoned in the Provincial Prison of Canaleta in Ciego de Avila, emphatically oppose the measures of violent repression that have been taken against The Ladies in White in different areas of Cuba, especially those events which [...]