In March, Generation Y exceeded four million hits. The astronomical number has been achieved thanks to commentators who have made this Blog a discussion forum; to occasional visitors who contribute fuel to the fire; even to the “collaboration” of the boys of the Cybernetics Response Brigade who try to bring down the site with… Continue reading There are no holidays

I leave to others the task of finding out what “03C” means, graffiti I’ve seen in Linea Street. I’ve heard that fifty years ago the slogan of “zero cinema, zero consumption, zero cabaret” spread across Cuba. I wonder what message is hidden, today, behind the three “C’s” that these young people have printed on several… Continue reading Riddle

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

  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