Blog Archives November 2017

Sancti Spiritus Votes for Cuba

The Cuban people decide. This is no propaganda but the reality across the country, from Havana to the most remote village of the Escambray or the Sierra Maestra.»

The Teacher I Had Was Sent by Fidel

Her joy promised an uneventful night. “Do you know who’s speaking?”, she said enthusiastically when she called me at approximately 7:00 pm. It was Neisa Fernández Rojas, the only person who owns a Diploma of Honor in her name signed by Manuel Ascunce Domenech giving account of the greater task he managed to bring to an end.   Neisa, Ascunce »

I Choose the Palm Tree Wood (+photos)

Among the plain truths said by combatant Gustavo Castellon Melian fighter, best known in Cuba as El Caballo de Mayaguara (The Mayaguara’s Horse), there is one that seems to be impossible to deny: there’s no other place in the island with so many royal palm trees as the area located between Yaguajay and Caibarien. The assertion remains fully valid even »