Dainerys Machado and José Ardila, from Cuba and Colombia respectively, are among the 25 best young Spanish-language storytellers according to Granta magazine.
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Havana
There is an astonishing patience in the Cuban people, born of endless waiting. When a store has, say, chicken, people queue, often for days. But on Monday, outside the Zanja police station in central Havana, people weren’t waiting for food. They were waiting patiently for news of family members who had been arrested during unprecedented protests at the weekend.
The demonstrations flared like a petrol fire. Cubans had settled down for lunch, many preparing to watch the Euro 2020 final, when news spread of a march in the town of San Antonio de los Baños on the outskirts of Havana. Videos on social media showed people, driven to fury by daily, hours-long power cuts, chanting ‘libertad’ freedom or else ‘Patria y Vida’ fatherland and life (a play on the bellicose revolutionary slogan
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