Circles Robinson, Author at Havana Times

Urban Art in Old Havana

Walking down Paula Street in Old Havana, on a sunny September day, the amount of street art there and surroundings is striking (29 photos).

She dismissed the charges against them “in the interests of justice,” concluding, “To criminalize their behavior would be the crime.”

“I believe that Nicaraguans feel they’re in a box they can’t escape from, where there’s no option for how to change the country.”

Despite having been thwarted by brutal repression, 7/11/2021 woke up many who until then thought it was impossible to break those chains.

In many cases, these Cuban families break up. In the best ones, they are separated for many years.

Another event that resolves nothing but implies great expenses, with a higher impact on a country that is in the middle of an economic crisis

Hundreds of thousands of protesters around the globe took to the streets over the weekend calling for an end to the burning of fossil fuels.

Today’s featured artist is Cuban trumpeter Chocolate Armenteros with his band the Cuban Soul and the song “Sunny Ray” (1997).

This is one of those times when I wonder what I’m doing here. Why am I wasting my time when I could be doing great things elsewhere?

More than five years ago, Melissa Teresa Vargas, the “child prodigy” of Cuban volleyball, was still in Cuba, in her hometown Cienfuegos.