As I was born at the center of Cayo Hueso, a well known neighborhood of Central Havana, I like to use all registers when speaking and saying what I want. Be it known that I always get amazed by people’s acuteness when creating new expressions or words. I’m fascinated by phrases such as “that’s your… Continue reading The trick of the words

This is the story of a building – Yugoslav model – that was built in the 1980s by excited microbrigadistas.* For the first time they built their own homes and along with this came a lot of new experiences from the fact of having one’s own roof (very few in “Generation Y” have experienced this… Continue reading Metaphor of these times

More and more often you hear “don’t sweat it,” repeated every time anyone tries to challenge what they don’t like. The expressions “you’ll give yourself a heart attack,” “just ignore it,” or “that’s not going to accomplish anything,” appear to hold first place in popular phraseology. A widespread call to inaction, in the name of… Continue reading The mottos of inaction

Let me make a tribute in this Blog to the journalist Reinaldo Escobar, who has just turned 60. It has been an enviable six decades of activities that in a normal life would fill about two hundred years. He worked as a journalist in the official media until, in 1988, he was expelled from the… Continue reading A few grey hairs, many dreams

Ray Fernandez gave an admirable concert last Saturday at the Spanish Cultural Center (which is no longer its official name, but everyone continues to call it that). Recent topics and others of a few years ago, culminated with the anthem of these times: “Lucha tu yuca Taino, lucha tu yuca…”* It’s amazing this boy, a… Continue reading Fiesta in the Caney

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.