Opinions in the Streets of Cuba
I want to write to you about the various opinions I hear every day when I go out into the streets of my Cuba.
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I want to write to you about the various opinions I hear every day when I go out into the streets of my Cuba.
The post Opinions in the Streets of Cuba appeared first on Havana Times.
Neil Armstrong took a small step to set foot on the Moon and plant a flag, and everyone is still talking about him; he’s a children’s hero. Just seconds later, Buzz Aldrin also stepped off Apollo 11, but he received less attention. There is also a certain silence surrounding the slender figure (1.86m, 59 kilos) of Yomif Kejelcha, who was right by Sebastian Sawe on Sunday in the final mile of the London Marathon and, like the Kenyan who etched 1:59.30 on his white running shoes, reached the finish line just 11 seconds later.

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Wearing a football shirt is an act of rebellion. It’s going against the grain of the drab, the ordinary, the formal. Wearing a club shirt, sometimes plastered with brand logos, or a national team shirt, sometimes one you don’t even support, is a way of expressing happiness through clothing. And football is all about joy. But this romanticized idea shatters when the market exploits nostalgia to build a business that seems to have no end.