Cuba

By Mercedes Varona Graupera Thetis, a divine mother with understandable concerns, submerged her beloved son in the fountain at Thesalia hoping to make him invincible. She plunged his…
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By Aurelio Pedroso Havana-dweller Edelsio Gijón Hernández, 53, got a college degree in English in 1986. After the language school where he worked closed, two years ago, he devoted…
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Taken from the Prensa Latina news agency (Jan. 5, 2010) Washington, Jan. 5 (Prensa Latina) -- The Washington Post, one of the most prestigious newspapers in the U.S., denies in an…
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By Luis Sexto Cuba's official discourse has found the most appropriate term to name the renovative process that, despite many doubts, is moving slowly through the archipelago's…
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From Havana The cat and the bell By Manuel Alberto Ramy In Spanish, there's a saying – phrased as a question – that describes a challenge: Who will bell the cat? Applied to the…
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By Aurelio Pedroso Doves, roosters and even the shy and harmless jutías – those tree-dwelling rodents that leap into the void at the barking of a dog – will not escape the slaughter…
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By Aurelio Pedroso Havana immersed itself in a cinematographic feast, with more than 400 choices to make us think, laugh and meditate. That's what movies are for. Every day and night,…
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By Luis Sexto While poets usually are good at describing images, they are not always so lucky when they try to philosophize. Was the bard who bequeathed his children “time, all the…
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By Aurelio Pedroso The fact that in Havana, a port city with one of the three of the world's most beautiful boulevards – I refer to the seawall Malecón, seven-plus kilometers long – it…
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From Havana Is it farewell to the ration book? By Manuel Alberto Ramy Throughout the island, the rumors are running faster than a Formula One racer. The disappearance of the ration…
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