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The website minjus.gob.cu/solicitudes had a new entry under Elena's profile: Solicitud #0047823 – RESUELTA. She clicked.

For three years, Elena had been trying to reclaim her family’s vivienda —the small house in Centro Habana that her father had built brick by brick in the 1950s. After he passed, a bureaucratic fog descended. The state had registered the property under a "temporary occupancy" clause during a renovation project in the 90s. That "temporary" status had lasted twenty-five years.

Her grandmother, Abuela Clara, shuffled into the room with two cups of café cubano. "Still staring at that screen?"

A real person? Or a bot? She typed: "Necesito saber si mi solicitud #0047823 está en estudio legal o archivada." minjus.gob.cu solicitudes

That was tomorrow.

Her fingers hovered over the keyboard. She had scanned her father's escritura (title deed), her birth certificate, her carnet de identidad , and a sworn statement from the neighbor who remembered the house before the change.

"What do I do?" she whispered.

The analyst from the chat. She was maybe thirty, with tired eyes and a neat bun.

A name. A real name. Elena wrote it on her palm with a pen.

Elena's throat closed. She thought of her father's hands, laying the terracotta tiles. She thought of the ficus tree in the courtyard where she learned to read. The website minjus

"There is a family living there now. A mother and two children. They were assigned the house by the housing office in 2010. They have nowhere else to go."

She clicked "Enviar."

Then she went home and, for the first time in six months, closed her laptop. The blue glow of minjus.gob.cu faded to black. But the door, she realized, had finally opened. After he passed, a bureaucratic fog descended