17 April 2021

At the distance of almost half a century, Olivia remembers the phrase easily. "I trust the new pines," said that man today, faceless and nameless. You cannot ask so much to memory. But at 73 she can feel like at 27. At 73 you can conserve the energy that forges new pines. And she does the same, with the energy and commitment with which she contributed as a delegate to the First Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba.

17 April 2021

The clocks of the city of New York passed a few minutes of ten in the morning of April 15, 1961 when Foreign Minister Raúl Roa García requested the floor for “a point of order” at the headquarters of the Organization of United Nations, a fact that once again demonstrated their intelligence because the real reason was to denounce the bombings and imminent aggression against Cuba.