SPORT
Left-hander is better
The current Cuban baseball championships up to the 11-12 year old category include in their Rules of Procedure that, in the first time at bat, players stop at the left-hander in the batting drawer and, […]
Year: 2018
SOCIETY
Behind alma mater
When I discovered her, sitting on Grandma’s lap, she was traveling on a route 20 “Via Hospital”. It was a gigantic play. I had a vast staircase and from above, a woman-statue looked at me […]
SOCIETY
The twilight of bookstores…
If the extinction of the vast majority of cinemas in Havana is a fact, so is the bookstores, even if it manifests the same differently. Cinemas have been confined to El Vedado, while bookstores are […]
SOCIETY
Contradictions
“Cubans are so loving contradictions they call ‘monsters’ beautiful women and ‘barbarians’ to the scholars.” The Prophet It may be contradictory, without as individual authorities, as a people, to be an obvious or common feature […]
Contest
CULTURE
Ethics and society in the aphorisms of Light and Knight
Joseph of Light and Knight (1800–1862) was born at the time the 19th century began. Its fruitful existence extends for just over six decades that are key to the formation of a Cuban culture and […]
CULTURE
Historia y ficción desde América Latina
“A social imaginary is a building inhabited by hopes and desires; a building made of ruins, thoughts who insist on appearing, of beliefs that go beyond prayer; a building whose walls are made of images […]
RELIGION
Monsignor Evelio Díaz Cía, the martyr archbishop
Man of very low stature, somewhat thick, had a beautiful face in his youth years, when he was chaplain of the school of Mothers Ursulinas in Havana. His voice was grave and devoid of flashy […]
RELIGION
What are you looking for? Your Majesty gossip
Two independent and populous states declared war: the State of Drunkenness and the State of Gossip. The two intended to have primacy in disasters caused. They argued hotly and each exhibited evidence of the misfortunes […]
RELIGION
The Marian patristic tradition of the East (v-vii centuries)
Introduction As we have seen in previous themes, the patristic tradition of Mary includes the consideration of ancient texts of the holy fathers of the East and the West, the writings of notable authors of […]