More and more people are contemplating the use of menstrual cup. They are reusable, eco-friendly and safe. You can find them on supermarket shelves for some years now, next to tampons and sanitary towels, products which are a great pollutant given the vast volume of waste they represent.

Without justice freedom is meaningless. What beauty is there in not knowing what to grab on to? What beauty is there in watching force used by the powerful on the weak.  In evidencing the discomfort of the oppressed and in observing disdainfully how that beast called hate is fed?

This steep decline reveals serious flaws with this product. So much so that shortages and high prices of this product and its range of derivatives expose the inefficiency of government plans and the absurd hurdles that exist for private production to compensate for deficits.

Within the wide range of Cuban movies that deal with migration, I will select ten Cuban movies, whose characters suffer the “I-want-to-leave-Cuba” syndrome. These are characters who are completely possessed by an anxiety to break away from a very concrete everyday reality.

On December 8th 2020, the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) organized a hate rally against independent journalist Iliana Hernandez. It took place right in front of her family’s home.

The new rates for electricity and other public services take effect in January 2021. We are alarmed just like most Internet users. A big concern is that the increase in wages will not compensate for the higher rates.  

In early December, a resolution came into force which set out a price-cap for different food items. Within days empty shelves prevailed in most of Havana’s markets.

Now I was thinking that my grandmother has never eaten tacos, sushi or been in an airplane. Neither has my mother. Two generations. They work hard and can barely buy food. Nope, they haven’t seen anything. They know nothing. It is scary to think of growing old in this country.

Jennifer Rodríguez and her parents emigrated from Cuba in 2015 as a family. In Miami they were welcomed by relatives and friends.

A lot of controversy has been stirred up recently about Day Zero, announced Thursday night as January 1, 2021. However, very little – almost nothing – has been said about what will happen in its wake, in the weeks that follow.

Dear Friends, this week we will delve into the events of what’s occurred here since November 26th. And the main issue is… Fear.

This week our group of artists deals with the announced disappearance of the CUC currency.

After all, San Isidro, Vedado, and any part of the Island or communities abroad interested in the different faces of the truth; interested in defending others’ right to be honest -what Martí called freedom-, will be declared territories free of the imaginary Madagascar.

This week our team addresses what has come to be called a period of new normality in Cuba. The pandemic is considered an endemic disease and we must comply with health security measures. At the same time, we continue to deal with all kinds of shortages of many products and services.

This is a first step to advance further articulations and consensus with other social subjects and entities of our society.

Then the results came out and my problems flared up again. The day before, on November 2, the school year had started in Havana after several months on hold due to COVID-19.

Three of the many who, since October 10th until the present day, have made activists of Cuban civil society, mostly young people, mostly related to the San Isidro Movement (MSI), an uneasy mountain in the archipelago’s civic plains.

This week we address the reopening of the Havana airport and the implications in the current context of the pandemic.

Pregnancy is not only the joy of a baby on its way, it is also a series of physical changes to a woman’s body. Some women suffer more changes than others postpartum, when we no longer have a beautiful belly, and our bodies don’t return to what they once were.

What relentless wind blew away most of the sweets made in Cuba? Now, our girls and boys, when they are lucky enough to taste a small sweet, it almost always comes from other countries. Those Cuban factories have forgotten the secret of movement and production.

I can only think about a good friend and his metaphor of the steel lollipop. Which, every now and again, the country’s leaders dip in honey and put it in Cubans’ mouths. People believe that this is a real candy, a real sweet, the kind that is on display in the glass window.

I take out a little bit so that it doesn’t overflow because half of it is spit chickpeas and it’s made 500 coffee pots explode.

This week we are going to talk about the issue of US dollar stores opening up in Cuba. One is the new store at the Carlos III shopping mall, another is at 5th and 42nd streets.