Cubans are preparing ourselves for the inflated number for GDP growth that will be announced at the end of the year. Without having swallowed -yet- the 12.5 that was publicized at the end of 2006, we are hallucinating with the big number they will tell us in December. (If this time we get to the… Continue reading The new mathematics

There’s a city that happens besides us without touching us. It is a Havana that talks of “Parmesan cheese” of “centimeters of turf” and “weekends in Cancun.” It’s another town that barely mixes with ours and looks nothing like the scenario of landslides and deficiencies that forms our environment. Both “Havanas” coexist and at the… Continue reading The other Havana

It seems that after many years of paralysis, the clock on the Central Railway Station is working again. Of course this does not mean that now the trains leave on time, but at least passengers can verify the extent of the delay… Below is a picture of the facade of the Market of Commerce, to… Continue reading I am not going to believe it!

It is rumored that starting in January there will be a package of measures that will alleviate some of our daily difficulties. It is even predicted that there will be 17 to 25 new resolutions, amongst which are included the possibility of buying a car, having a cell phone contract or traveling without the current… Continue reading Kabbalah and politics

Yesterday night, Monday, the program “Open Dialog” confirmed for me the idea that debate, when is not free and spontaneous, remains a monologue of several voices.  It was precisely the absence of controversy that characterized the guests of Loly Estevez, among whom were Alfredo Guevara, Eduardo Heras Leon, Desiderio Navarro, Roberto Fernandez Retamar and Corina… Continue reading “Media Slip”

Yesterday night, Monday, the program “Open Dialog” confirmed for me the idea that debate, when is not free and spontaneous, remains a monologue of several voices. It was precisely the absence of controversy that characterized the guests of Loly Estevez, among whom were Alfredo Guevara, Eduardo Heras Leon, Desiderio Navarro, Roberto Fernandez Retamar and Corina… Continue reading “Media Slip”

Among all of the sculptures of Marti that this city has, there are two that seem to me so contrary and antagonistic that I can barely recognize in them the same person. I am referring to the statue that presides over Central Park and the other Marti -close to the sea- that directs his threatening… Continue reading Which one is your Marti?

After the post “Interview with a Sailor,” a lot of people came to ask me how to assemble a navigation artifact. Friends, I can’t even distinguish prow from stern in a ship. As a sailor I only have the vertigo that I get from this island adrift. I am one of those who learned to… Continue reading Democratic opening: Finally, the Sea*

I challenge you to find a public clock in this city that works, that tells the time or at least an approximation of the real time. I cannot find one. Not even on the facade of the Train Terminal, where the immobile hands always mark five twenty. It is not that we have some sort… Continue reading Time is worth nothing

The young people I see today, absorbed in their Mp3 player and with their pants below the hip, are eager – as once we dreamed – for the moment they can be in charge of their own the house and change the furniture, renovate, paint, and invite their friends over. They have the same aversion… Continue reading The children devour Saturn