About a month ago my father took a plane to visit me for the second time in three months. Accompanied by his girlfriend, and his girlfriend’s daughter. …

The week of July 11th was unpredictable for Cubans given the massive protests that began in San Antonio de los Baños and then spread across the island of Cuba. In my personal case, that week was even more special because I met a great friend. In the midst of the…

Mid Semester Project Review Many years have passed since music came into my life. I was barely a five-year-old girl when I began to discover the magical language that finds a way to convey all kinds of feelings. As for many people, music has been a companion of adventures and…

Music cures I met Pepo some time ago when I was just a thirteen-year-old teenager at the Professional Music School in Matanzas, Cuba. …

Yesterday’s dinner ended up orbiting very common themes among most Cubans who emigrate to any part of the world: the island’s economic situation, the absurd measures imposed by the government, the ease of the media to misrepresent the real situation in the streets, among many other disappointments. As I finished…

The past year has been covered in uncertainties, losses, protests, and awakenings worldwide. Historical moments have occurred, and continue to occur within Cuban’s civil society, in response to the current global crisis, and also to the internal crisis that the country has suffered for a little more than six decades…