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When I discuss the inhuman US blockade of Cuba for the past sixty years, many naive americans would say including the cunning politicians of miami fascist front that Cuba is…
What is the origin of this EUPHORIA? It originated somewhere else, but came seeking me .. And I was listening to Alex Fox from Argentina playing his Spanish Guitar I…
ENTOMOLOGY would have been one of the first words in my vocabulary that I could remember as a child. But what was the path to that knowledge? What language did…
The normally Mediterranean-style climate of La Habana took a turn with the arrival of a cold front, a frente frio, from the North, The temperature dropped to 21C, the change…
I enjoy this surrealistic life in Havana, Cuba . We go to a Pharmacy and the attendant is very warm and helpful, but the answer to: Do you have ...…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE I am writing this from my flat in Vedado, Havana, Cuba while listening to Iranian music. I have been thinking a lot…
I had a trip planned to South East Asia, and anyone who has read the News would admit that this is not the time for frivolous travel to the East.…
I think it was Porfirio Diaz of Mexico who lamented: Oh Mexico, so close to the United States and so far away from God.. today I took the short flight…
In this past week, I have witnessed at close quarters, the wonderful wholistic approach to HEALTH in CUBA. Health is not the absence of disease, it is obvious from the…
Lots of nice things have happened to me in Oman during my various visits and this visit (today I leave for Paris on my way to Miami and then Havana)…
I enjoy walking along the Malecon as the sun sets. At this time of the year in Havana, it sets behind some buildings, not in the open seas, but it…
It was on October 5, 2019 that this buddhist monk appeared at the hotel where I was having a late breakfast, watching the calm Arabian Sea. Just the day before…