Month: April 2008

From the fourteenth floor where I live – which has nothing to do with an ivory tower – I can see Rancho Boyeros Avenue leading to the airport.   A couple of weeks ago there was an unusual movement of new buses.   A blue and red bus has come to change the landscape in front of… Continue reading Unusual movement

That portion of Philology that still stays with me, that knows of writers, philosophers and the names of scholars, is jumping for joy over the Ortega y Gasset Prize for journalism that I been have given.  This blogger, for her part, feels that so many obstacles to access the Internet, so much flash memory taken… Continue reading I can’t believe it!

Lack of a civilian network, without interference from the State, has made us, as Cubans, like loose strands in a weave that each day is more frayed.   It is difficult to call us together for a citizen project precisely because the means to do so belong to those who prefer to keep us scattered.  The… Continue reading The virtual society

To recognize legally what has, in fact, already prospered in the shadows, is the same as to permit or approve.  The push of the inevitable is marking the latest measures of the Cuban government, but they haven’t managed to appease our voracity for openness.  It is not every week that they fling us a bone… Continue reading Accept or lose

I think it was this young man, extremely sensual, in the photo by Tina Modotti, who said, “Every time, the future must be better.”   For years I have returned to this axiom of Julio Antonio Mella, without managing to reconcile it with my life.   I look, I compare, and there is no way the present… Continue reading The future according to Mella