Category: Generation Y

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

  In Granma* they have announced a new round of discussions, this time with the text of Raúl Castro’s speech from last February 24th. The call is aimed at unions, and will last the remainder of March and the entire month of April.  Though the results of discussions from last September and October have not… Continue reading Another round

I know that many have been worried about what happened to Generation Y, and so I must express my thanks to them and offer a more detailed explanation. Last Thursday a friend alerted me that one could not enter some blogs and sites coming from the Island. Until Sunday, it was impossible to connect with… Continue reading Part doctor

I confess that I have been given to misbehaving. I rebel against orders, I look for lemons that I cannot find anywhere, I demand apologies that never come and, this great silliness of mine, I write my opinions on a Blog – with my name and picture included. As you can see, in these thirty-two… Continue reading Of reprimands and “stapled” pages

On December 24 I wrote a post entitled “An empty chair,” where we celebrated the fifth Christmas without the presence of Adolfo Fernandez Sainz, prisoner since the Black Spring* of 2003. Today, the table laid, waiting for the family, my son asks me increasingly uncomfortable questions about when Adolfo will come back.  Meanwhile Julita, his… Continue reading The stubborn empty chair

This unique reality in which we live helps a lot when it comes to writing literature. Each small detail of our everyday life breathes fantasy, fiction and paradox. From there we read a selection of stories, such as Male Heifers and Other Absurdities by Angel Pérez Cuza, a walk through the injustices of every day.… Continue reading Male heifers and cow suicide

The echo of drums announcing the imminent sale of computers, DVD players and other appliances, has come to my ears.  Like other recent rumors, the “bang-bang” begins abroad, but in my neighborhood shops nobody knows anything about the “technological onslaught.”  Despite so much despair for the changes that failed, I believe that yes, the ban… Continue reading Who’s last in line for the toasters?

With this mix of comedy and tragedy that we use to deal with everything that happens to us, a group of bloggers and Cuban computer experts have opened a blog on the same platform.  It is something like a hideout for all those internet rustlers in Cuba, for the renegades who escape from the warden… Continue reading Wild pony makes a run for it

Those of us who today are under forty had to be like the young man in the painting by Raúl Martínez, a hybrid of a man and a social model.  We would rest our chins in our hands and, surrounded by brilliant colors, we would watch a time of conquests and justice.  However, the resulting… Continue reading Sonata for a “new man”