Category: Generation Y

With rumors it happens the same as with injections: if you are sick and you need to have several, the last ones don’t hurt you. In the beginning the fibs delude you, then comes the confirmation that they are false, and then comes the frustration. Since early this year, for example, it began to spread… Continue reading The rumors… the fibs…

It has now been three years since I packed my suitcases in Zurich and together with my son, then eight, decided to return to live in my country. So this may appear to be a simple story of an immigrant returning to her homeland, but for the fact that we both had left “permanently.” I… Continue reading I came and I stayed

New regulations regarding internet use are being extended to the places with access to Cuban information providers. Yahoo and Gmail will bear the brunt of it, along with the mischievous Google which saves – accessible through its cache – those pages that the ideological filters want to block. Nor do the few internet cafes left… Continue reading Internet by signs

  I like to call this the “Generation Y” because it is just possible that some day we will hear slogans like: Yunisleidis Viva! or Eternal Glory to Yusimí!.  Translator’s note: In Spanish the word for the letter Y is “y griega” which means “Y Greek” after the Greek letter Ypsilon.

I like to call this the “Generation Y” because it is just possible that some day we will hear slogans like: Yunisleidis Viva! or Eternal Glory to Yusimí!. Translator’s note: In Spanish the word for the letter Y is “y griega” which means “Y Greek” after the Greek letter Ypsilon.

Havana is a city of slow solutions or incredibly precipitous ones. In the case of a deteriorating building, where the inhabitants live among the scaffolding with pieces of the ceiling falling in, the remedies take time and the necessary housing takes decades to construct. But if the question is to close, to limit or to… Continue reading Shakespearean tragedy

I know this reference comes from close at hand, but I recommend to you my interview with a Cuban rafter that appeared in the Number 7 of the digital magazine Consensus – From Cuba. Here are the links. This is a link to the Spanish-language article. A link to the English translation will be posted… Continue reading Interview with a rafter

After Raúl Castro’s speech on July 26, I ran into several friends who greeted me in a similar way, alluding to the “glass of milk” promised by him in front of the cameras.  From the nearly sixty minutes of his panegyric, people extracted this promise, announced like a conquest achieved, “that every Cuban can drink”… Continue reading And my glass of milk?

I avoid using words such as “eternal,” “always” and “never .”  The definitive scares me and the everlasting stinks.  So when I hear a political speech where someone says “its fire will be as eternal as the Revolution,” referring to the fragile fire of a torch, I run to my dictionaries and calm my fright… Continue reading Similes, eternity and power

In what are called “Stores of Currency Collection,” notice carefully that the stated objective is not to provide a service or to satisfy clients, but to remove the money from your pocket… seriously! This well-patronized model is a set of stores called “All for One.” You can find everything there from plaster figurines through scrub… Continue reading All for one