Santo Domingo/New Orleans: Flying back from Santo Domingo to Miami and now onwards towards New Orleans and home allows one to reflect more on life on the other side of the looking glass.  Yesterday for example we began our day with a visit to the main hospital in Santo Domingo accompanied by the head of …

Santa Domingo, Dominican Republic: Yesterday in the Capitolio neighborhood one thing did not quite add up, and I finally figured out what was not settling easily – I was in Santo Domingo physically, but mentally I was still in Havana. When the civic associations were explaining their actions, we were confused because they did not …

Santo Domingo, Domincan Republic: Santo Domingo is something else again!  We flew two hours to the east and south into another time zone – Caracas time in the same way one would say that eastern standard is New York time or Central Standard is Chicago time – and another world.  Here an election is just …