Travel to Cuba, Trump Style
I’ve got some shit to get off my chest so best buckle up. Pour a stiff one, bust out the vape or tuck in with a nice, hot chai – whatever helps you chill and focus. A lot has been written about Trump’s...
View ArticleCOVID-19 & Cuba
Some of you have noticed that I’ve taken a long hiatus from here. The reasons are tragic and painful and pre-date this pandemic de mierda. For those readers looking for something upbeat, you get the...
View ArticleCOVID-19 & Cuba: The Good
Greetings readers. I hope you’re as well as you can be given the shit show that is Planet Earth, 2020. In my first chronicle about the coronavirus in Cuba, I led off with a (necessarily short)...
View ArticleCOVID in Cuba: Havana Monkey Wrench
Let’s talk more about coronavirus!…No one said ever. Personally, I’m fucking sick of it and I’m guessing you are too. In addition to the ad nauseam data, studies, news (and “news”), conspiracies...
View ArticleCuban Dumpster Fires #42-46: COVID & The Blockade
Things aren’t going well in Cuba In fact, the situation is peor que nunca. Rolling blackouts, the antiquated aqueduct system busted, leaving huge swaths of Havana without water, the country is posting...
View ArticleSurviving Cuba with FE*
(*Familia en el Exterior) I used to tell people when I’d be traveling—give them a head’s up in case they needed something from a fuera. That was when I first got here, green and eager. It took just a...
View ArticleUnpacking the Protests in Cuba
Recent events compel me to post sooner than I otherwise might. First, I’ve received so many questions, including in my professional capacity as a journalist, about what’s happening in Cuba that for...
View ArticleYour Live Donkey, Reporting from Havana
Remember the good ole days of the ‘coronacoaster,’ riding the ups and downs of 2020-2021 and looking forward to better times ahead? That was some aspirational thinking. Delusional even. Now, rather...
View ArticleP’alante Conner, P’alante Cuba
I am good at some things: camping and roughing it; making deadlines; making conversation; not holding a grudge; eavesdropping. With some other things, I’m getting better: regular tai chi practice;...
View Article“Sanctions Produce Heartbreak”
Hello from Havana, where regular people can’t afford rice or sugar or eggs, gas lines are half-a-work-day long (“lucky” for us – in the provinces they’re three-workdays long, piggy-backing on...
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