you will find Cuban heavy metal musicians, or rappers, along with those who play salsa – all outside influences are accepted without problems. - Arístides Esteban Hernández Guerrero

This isn’t a perfect country; we have lots of difficulties and many things that need to be improved, and many things that need to change. But we also have many things that are worthy of admiration, things that just about no other country of the so-called third world has achieved, or will achieve for a long time.

What does bother me as a Cuban and an intellectual worker is that from the United States they’re trying to tell us Cubans what to do. President Bush recently called for democracy in Cuba; but I can’t explain to myself what moral standing he has, to give democracy lessons to my country, he being a president who got to the White House after fraudulent elections.

People often confuse jokes with humor, but my humor is very serious. I not only make people laugh, but also make people reflect and analyze.