Cuba conserves social spaces where it seems that history has not acted on its progress. This is the rural world of the island, where underdevelopment reigns with its heavy effect on health and life expectancy, with the domestic scope which it owns, the unquenchable and playful sense of children and the deeply-rooted traditions that leisurely fill the days in these parts of the country.
The drama emerges from the images: an elderly man clinging to bread, the Cuban flag waving within the shadows of a child’s hands in a school, the simple contemplation of a desolate time at the end of the day, a young farmer lighting his cigar with a piece of burning wood while an almost-ready-to-roast pig hangs in the background, the supreme offering for a New Year’s Eve celebration. Cockfights are also great entertainment in this austere way of life and some farmers devote much time to caring for these animals, two children take advantage of the time that horses are taken to bathe and jump from their backs in a small artificial lake which serves as the river for the crops. All of these images evoke a past that is not gone.
