Red Sky

    The colors are fading. Window spies are always watching. Life is changing. A paper plane flown from a prison window tells me so. 

    The simple life, the simple pleasures: sandcastles, seashells, siesta, carnivals, carousels, cotton candy, piñatas, and parasols are a thing of the past. Once vibrant concrete cities are now concrete deserts. Red flutters in the wind, with foreign faces I don't know.  How can a perfect, cloudless blue sky be so gray and dark? Mami calls it a red sky.

© Dania Herrera Nasca

May 28, 2025

They came fleeing Mao’s Cultural Revolution, and then ………

 Courtesy of @Camaguey1514

https://x.com/camaguey1514/status/1925339484574417104?s=61&t=9HT07qgIps9Mp284_4HU8Q

The very industrious Chinese in Cuba. They came fleeing Mao’s Cultural Revolution 

Education in Cuba

 Courtesy of Recorriendo la Historia de  Cuba

Integrated schools, education for all since the early 1900s. Fidel fooled the world into thinking he brought education to Cubans. 

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=627118287017445&id=100091578369143

Courtesy of Recorriendo la Historia de Cuba

 https://www.facebook.com/100091578369143/posts/405574099171866/?

American companies that did business in Cuba did good things for Cubans. All you hear is the myth of the US hold on Cuba. 

Continues to ………

 Lights Out: A Cuban Memoir of Betrayal and Survival continues to sell every month on Amazon.