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The cursor blinked. Then: "Su solicitud fue asignada al Departamento de Reclamaciones Territoriales, Oficina #7. El analista es Lic. M. Fuentes. Tiempo restante estimado: 43 días."

Elena stopped breathing.

Her heart sank. Then a PDF appeared in her "Notificaciones" folder. It was a letter, signed with a digital stamp: "Se requiere una inspección presencial de la propiedad. Presentarse en la Dirección Provincial de Justicia, Calle 23 y L, Vedado, el 15 de noviembre, 9:00 a.m." minjus.gob.cu solicitudes

Elena checked the portal's status tracker every morning before work. En revisión. The same green stamp every day. At the tobacco factory where she sorted leaves, her coworker Javier laughed. "That page is a ghost, Elena. A pretty ghost with a .gob.cu address."

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. The cursor blinked

The Ministry of Justice office smelled of old paper and floor wax. Elena sat on a wooden bench, clutching a folder with every document she owned. A young woman in a green uniform called her name.

"What do I do?" she whispered.

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