When US president, Donald Trump, came into power, I remember reading an essay by Deepak Chopra in which he warned that Trump represented America’s shadow and that we’d have to wait and see whether the world was ready to live in his shadow.
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My investigation about the Hershey train continues; It began to run in 1920 and is famous for being the only electric train to operate in the island, running from Matanzas to Havana.
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A critical Cuban filmmaker and a US film student live a tragic love story in Cuba in the turbulent 1960s. Fausto Canel joined the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry, when it was founded.
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The Trump administration has the following as part of its political agenda: “End Communist dictatorships in Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba.”
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The unofficial protest of the LGBTIQ+ community began on May 11th with great joy and ended in violence, as was to be expected. With a police cordon that ran from Old Havana to Vedado (it seems that they were afraid of a popular uprising).
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There’s something that seems suspicious to me in Florida and it’s that most Cubans, intellectuals or otherwise, automatically become Republicans as soon as they reach the US.
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Last Saturday morning, a panel dedicated to the late and controversial Cuban writer Guillermo Cabrera Infanta, one of a series of conferences at the Cuban Film Institute’s Young Filmmakers Festival.
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“Portrait of an ever-adolescent artist” (a history of cinema in Cuba), is the most recent documentary by Cuban filmmaker Manuel Herrera, director of Zafiros, Locura azul (1997), Bailando Cha Cha Chá (2004), among his most known titles. A hilarious film, ingenious as its protagonist, the late filmmaker and actor Julio Garcia Espinosa…
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Ever since my childhood, I’ve been hearing people say Cuba is a small island, therefore the US is an abuser for taking such severe measures when the scales of power are completely tipped in their favor.
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Recently, the documentary “Nadie” inspired by poet Rafael Alcides’ love and deception for the Cuban Revolution, by Miguel Coyula (which I was also involved in as an actress and producer), was taken off the program in Buenos Aires, Argentina, by our Ministry of Foreign affairs.
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