For several days now, it's sweltering heat, a scorching sun by day and night, the city was swept by winds relentlessly tormented. Cubans call them "los vientos cuaresma of" the winds of Lent coming from the south and crazy. Leonardo Padura has named it as one of the four seasons of his cop Mario Conde.
But Cubans are not stupid, they all suffer from Nazareth, a nasty virus.
Nazaré? It was the name of a character in the telenovela Brazilian has just ended: a woman wicked, wicked, ooh lala, as she was wicked.
Suddenly, it became a common name, a cliché, the Cubans are using it for everything that is bad this flu that does not heal, an unfaithful wife, a bad person ...
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