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Havana's Malecón, towards Prado. J. E. Rodríguez Diario de Cuba Víctor Carlos Oramas gets the days of the week mixed up in Havana. He was born and raised in the barrio of El Cana, in the municipality of Cerro, "where the people's hustle and bustle, and the sound of music" once filled the days with a festive air. "I no longer know if whether it's Wednesday or Friday. With the silence, every day is like Monday; heavy, like it's in mourning. With great luck, you might hear a stereo on full blast on Saturdays or Sundays, as if people have lost the d...

My mother struggled with depression, back injuries, and chronic arthritis. But the moment my father took off his belt in drunken frustration when I was up past my bedtime, she told him to leave. Her children were not going to know the violence and fear that she had known. The story would be Disney-worthy if it ended there. But trauma sometimes feels like it has its own natural law—too often it is not destroyed but redirected. In our home economic insecurity was a constant. My mother carried the trauma of her life in her body, and sometimes her depression and anxiety would seep into slammed ...