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Cuba

Love, a few clicks away

Helen Hernandez Hormilla Jan 21, 2016
Unrequited romances, renunciations, spectacular re-encounters marked by the desire -- or the need -- to leave Cuba. When the youth of a country bases almost all of their projects…
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Cuba

Merry Christmas – shopping?

Helen Hernandez Hormilla Dec 23, 2015
Outward perfection should not overpower the spiritual content of this joyful season. When one is far from his loved ones, one realizes that, of all the possible gifts, a love-filled hug…
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Florida

Havana-Costa Rica-Miami(?): A voyage to prove love

Helen Hernandez Hormilla Dec 6, 2015
Every night, before turning off the bedside lamp in the hostel where she has been sleeping for the past 20 days, Sofía rekindles her hopes, thinking that soon she will embrace Gaby,…
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Florida

The city of ‘Cubaneo’


Helen Hernandez Hormilla Dec 1, 2015
In South Florida, home to most of the 2 million émigrés from the Caribbean island, this mode of relating to one another became widespread. It is no secret that, beginning half a century…
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Florida

The day of ‘the call’

Helen Hernandez Hormilla Nov 8, 2015
The prices of telephony between the two countries render unaffordable a communication that resembles the spontaneous course of love. Circumstances impose that you seek other ways, turn…
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Florida

In Miami, are we all rafters?

Helen Hernandez Hormilla Oct 23, 2015
"Rafter," in the chimerical city of Cuban emigration, works like a label that describes those who arrived after the 1990s. It doesn't matter if the journey meant crossing a border,…
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