OnCuba

I launched Cuba’s first independent magazine. And that’s when my troubles began

My friends and I wanted to tell the story of Cuban life, without interference. Before long, I was being isolated, monitored and interrogatedA version of this essay was previously published in the Dial under the title The Sneeze. MeyerOne day, in the middle of 2014, my friend Carlos Manuel Álvarez asked me to join him on the newsroom’s balcony.