Cuba

The world didn’t know it yet, but it was the eve of Covid 19 pandemic, slowly encroaching from Zone 0 also known as Wuhan, China. There were rumors of cases showing up in Europe and other southeast Asian countries, but in the Americas we were still fairly oblivious to dangers of the novel corona virus we were about to experience head on. . . .

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The sun was hovering just above the horizon when we approached the tiny fishing village on the banks of the Caribbean Sea. A few shy but curious youngsters approached our group of five and studied our faces intently. A woman dressed all in pink came out to greet us with a smile. ‘You’re lucky,” she said in Spanish, “the fisherman caught a shark today.  . . .

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