If the “fruit” ended up maturing and fulfilling the prediction made by the sixth president of the United States, we would have to “thank” that model implanted in Cuba in the name of “socialism and working class power.”
Read More“Simply, do it simply, do it with your own hands and la la la…” sing the voices in the introduction of a program on Cuba’s “Multivision” television network.
Read MoreIn many parts of the country where they have carnivals, people are accustomed to dancing behind floats that parade through squares and streets carrying “live music” and beautiful dancers. This peculiar form of trailing behind floats is known in Cuba as “arroyar” (streaming).
Read MoreToday, a national yoga television program coordinated by Eduardo Pimentel Vázquez, a well-known yoga master in Havana. In addition, Pimentel and his wife, Elsa Hermida, have their own studio “Vidya Yoga” (Yoga Knowledge) in Havana where they teach yoga to all interested individuals.
Read MoreWomen are still a small minority on Cuba’s hip hop scene. “If the situation is hard for us nationwide, imagine what it’s like in the eastern region, where this genre has very little recognition,” says Yaneidys Tamayo, leader of the group Las Positivas.
Read MoreFrom my point of view, the key word that identifies the left (at least one of them) is “participation,” not passive but active, in creating their own living conditions and we can break down participation into its economic and political components.
Read MoreWhile Irene no longer poses a threat to the Cuba, The Cuban Weather Service (INSMET) will continue to track it through the Bahamas and on approach to the United States eastern seaboard.
Read MoreThe recent topic of debate between Havana and Miami is the “Cuban Adjustment Act.” Thanks to that legislation (1966), any citizen from the island who steps onto US soil receives residency, just as if they were a political refugee.
Read MoreMartinez Fure remained silent for several seconds … until in a perfectly modulated voice he began to speak about the emergence of Africa, humanity’s place of origin, the wealth of the continent, the immigration process and slave routes toward Europe, Asia and the Americas.
Read MoreI heard a comment on the news about the “Festival of Political Song” an event held annually in Guantanamo at the beginning of August. To me, the name of this event seemed to be in poor taste. I wondered: Do people make political songs in Cuba?
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