“I returned to Santiago de Cuba - a city that touches me in a very particular way...

The carnival would begin a week from now, just a few days before the day of the Triumph of the Revolution. Walking through the city bustling with preparations, I had teh chnace to meet some interesting characters - some of them carried the time-honourerd memory of the carnival, others refused to participate.

In this event that had become frozen in time and reduced to silence, some were trying to carve out a fragile space for free speech..".

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