Next Year in Havana

by Chanel Cleeton

“Terrible things rarely happen all at once,” she answers. “They’re incremental, so people don’t realize how bad things have gotten until it’s too late.

“I would like to shout. The freedom to protest when I do not agree with what my government is doing without fear of retribution.

We’re guests in our own country. Second-rate citizens because we had the misfortune to be born Cuban.”