‘Falling Into the Abyss of Nothingness…’
I remember him well, leaning over the table with head bowed and a vacant look. Carlitos was barely 20 and his every gesture carried the reluctance of someone who had lived too much. The young man ended...
View Article‘It’s Hell Out There… But Paradise Here in Cuba’
Havana, 3 July 2014 -- Yesterday on the bus, with the summer heat and after the long wait at the stop, two men commented loudly on their annoyance. "This sure doesn't happen in Cyprus!" one said to the...
View ArticlePutin In Havana, Seeking an Ally or a Satellite?
Putin and Raul Castro together on Cuban television. (14ymedio) "These are the last sweets!" The cry could be the simple proclamation of a candy seller, but I heard it 23 years ago at my high school in...
View ArticleCuba’s Football Hangover
The World Cup 2014 on Cuban TV (14ymedio) Gone is the last game, the German goal, Götze's hands raising the 2014 Brazil World Cup. Gone are the get togethers with friends, wrapped in the flag of Italy...
View ArticleOnce a Rafter, Always a Rafter: Iliana Hernandez Runs for Her Life
Iliana Hernandez 14ymedio, Yoani Sanchez, 1 August 2014 - A Cuban balsera, a rafter, has set herself a new challenge. This time it's not about escaping Cuban on a fragile craft, but rather crossing...
View ArticleThe Maleconazo and the Rafter Crisis in a Can of Condensed Milk
Photo: Karl Poort, 5 August 1994 We had run around together in our Cayo Hueso neighborhood. His family put up several cardboard boxes in vacant lot near Zanja Street, similar to those they'd had in...
View ArticleMy Mother and the Onions
Onion seller (14ymedio) 14YMEDIO, Yoani Sanchez, 6 August 2014 - Who do I think about when I write? How does the reader imagine my texts come to me? Who do I want to shake up, move, reach... with my...
View ArticleGoogle Chrome Becomes ‘Legal’ in Cuba
Yesterday, the giant Google authorized the download of their well-known browser Chrome by Cuban internauts. The announcement came just two months after several of the American company's executives...
View ArticleA Caricature of a Cuban Woman
Woman drinking (14ymedio) 14yMEDIO, Yoani Sanchez, Havana, 22 August 2014 -- A woman on national television said that her husband "helps" her with some household chores. To many, the phrase may sound...
View ArticleWho Is Filling Cuba’s University Classrooms?
New students at the University of Havana (14ymedio) Born during the Special Period, they have grown up trapped in the dual currency system, and when they get their degrees Raul Castro will no longer...
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