From Harvard to the “Other” Border (and Back)
The azure waters of the Florida Straits gently rocked the 26-foot-long US Coast Guard interceptor. My shipmate and I, sweating through our navy blue coveralls and bulletproof vests…
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Country: Cuba
So Close, Yet So Far
English + Español
Last December, my boyfriend Alejandro and I had been apart for a year due to Covid-19 travel restrictions. I managed to snag a very full flight to Cuba to see him. At the time, Cuba was…
The Moving Landscapes of Cuba
A different version of this appeared two years ago in ReVista. Logically, many things have happened on the Island in these years, many more in recent months—which, by the time of publication, will probably make this article both…
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Becoming Free, Becoming Black
The year was 1690. In the city of Havana, Cuba, a 20-year old enslaved woman named Juana asked the man who held her in slavery, one Juan Junco González, to grant her…
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Cuban Working Women during the Pandemic
English + Español
These are machista comments that I gathered while standing with other Cubans in the longest lines I can recall since the appearance of Covid-19. The meaning of these…