It’s 11 PM and the building doesn’t have any electricity. I fan my son and try to calm him down, but the shouting continues to come in through the space between the blinds and you can hear it all as if it were in the living room.

They express their concern with the punishment of defector doctors, who are prevented from returning to the island for 8 years “and relatives who remain in Cuba are subject to being targeted and suffering repercussions from government bodies”.

Cuban bureaucracy needs to understand that TV doesn’t belong to them, that TV belongs to the people, and that it can’t be privatized, by constitutional order, which includes the State and its bureaucrats; it can’t be seized from the people.

This list, which is neither exhaustive nor conclusive, includes only several of the most genuine expressions that have been produced through social networks in Cuba this year 2019, increasingly becoming a means of expression and citizen consultation.

If men had periods, at least the first day would be declared a holiday. I don’t know about other women, but I hate working the first day of my period.

On Sunday December 1st, at ten in the morning, Fernando Rodriguez leads a group of Christians who have come together to read the Bible. The Malecon is full of fishermen, tourists and people marching about their daily business.

This story popped into my mind with the repetitive, energetic and patriotic calls for productivity and efficiency of the Cuban government.

The government’s economic measure, which allows household appliances and other items to be purchased in freely convertible currency, benefits a very small segment of the population. The rest will continue to wait for one euro in the countryside.

Dolls continue to be toys called to represent the role of “housewife” or object of consumer desire that empties of value the social being they represent. My black doll was breaking with these schemes.

Rolando Lluch -statistician of the Las Tunas baseball team- broadcast on his own initiative in “live” mode on Facebook more than 20 games. One indication has prohibited this initiative.

A tongue-in-cheek reference to the “powders” in Afro-Cuban religion and their effects kicked off the show “Three sad topics”, the latest episode from El Enjambre.

Cuba’s hotel bet is to reach more than 155 thousand rooms in a decade. This is an investment of more than 17,600 million dollars, of which 66% will come from totally Cuban capital.

The final report of the air accident which occurred on 18 May 2018 confirms as the most likely cause of the incident the loss of control of the aircraft, due to a chain of errors, mainly human.

Cirle Tatis Arzuza, Colombian youtuber, lived “unpleasant events” in Cuba. As she said on his Instagram profile, she felt discrimination from the beginning of his visit for being a woman, black and looking Cuban.

Without a complaint there is no criminal process, without a criminal process there is no defendant, if there is no defendant, there can be no limitation of rights. What happens under these conditions is an arbitrary arrest.

Statistics considered the sustained abandonment of planting areas and the insufficient growth of agriculture, but these data do not appear to be specific to modify the state policy that should modify food in Cuba.

The government is saying that the new cooperative policy “doesn’t mean that the experiment won’t progress any further, it’s just to make it more coherent”. Coherent with what?

In a 500-something word article published on Cuba’s Ministry of Higher Education official website, the first vice-minister of this institution has outlined the political discrimination that characterizes Cuba’s university system.

I was recently talking to my friends about women’s orgasms, but I soon realized that I felt embarrassed. I have noticed that this subject doesn’t come up very often in our conversations, or we just leave it as nothing more than a joke.

Xiomis L. Navarro Collado is a doctor and rapper. He sings about women and their struggles for equality, in their music there are recurring messages about eliminating stigmas and prejudices.

In Cuban political discourse, “productive chains” are in fashion. But the speech seems not to announce its own ineffectiveness and is recycled, it sounds again in banners, slogans … Productive chains are lost in discursive chains.

Although in a recent article published in the state press the self-employed are blamed for the rise in prices and the shortage of beers in Cuba, the causes must be sought in other matters such as the lack of production.

Jugolandia is the entrance and hallway to a house located in the Playa municipality. It is the fruit of a desire to set up a profitable business, as well as to contribute to improving and strengthening customers’ health and to have an influence on their lifestyle.

Her story is my favorite: that of a princess who saves herself and who never cared about the canons of beauty, those who according to society “conquer” the “princes”.

The Mi barrio sueña project takes futsal as a means to contribute towards the education of young people and the development of communities that many people consider “slums”.

In spite of sex shops not (legally) existing in Cuba, adult toys are being more frequently used and purchased in recent years.

Racism doesn’t have to be overt or radically expressed as the persecution, slavery and extermination of a race, as these extreme situations are just the tip of the iceberg. It’s what we can’t see that is the most worrying because it isn’t aggressive, it forms a part of our everyday lives.

This story unfolds on a Cuban Yutong bus running the route from Havana to Holguin. Chacal and Yakarta made sure to remind us that “this is tough love”.

Cuba’s self-employed are dissatisfied with many things including the lack of legal protection they have and the treatment they receive from certain officials who interpret regulations at their own discretion, making them oblige.

On the outskirts of Holguin, Yaima Ramirez dreams about her ecotourism agency “Cuba Hola” being so successful that it can offer other women like her a job. She describes herself as an entrepreneur, feminist and Christian.

The private gyms boom in Cuba began in 2010, like many other small businesses did. Even though it seemed to be a fleeting trend, “something that would soon pass” according to some people’s predictions, almost a decade later, these spontaneous initiatives have shown the impact that they have had on society.