Circles Robinson, Author at Havana Times

Stanley Clarke – Song of the Day

Today’s featured artist is bass player Stanley Clarke (USA) with a live NPR Tiny Desk Concert performed in June 2025.

When Cuba’s sports news increasingly resembles a tragicomedy tinged with exile and redemption, Yipsi Moreno’s story is a gem.

The power went out half an hour ago, and the neighbors on my block are saying it won’t be back until the early morning…

If this tension continues to build, a spark could ignite another mass protest—one so far been held back by the fear of brutal reprisals.

We Cubans are tangled up on this island. And it’s not as easy to get out of the mess as many might think from abroad.

Alamar, a “model” community on the east side of Havana, was a project launched with great fanfare by the revolution in the 1970s. (35 photos)

Xavier Anaise from France took our photo of the day: “Ox Carts”, in Vietnam.

Governments of Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba, traditionally supporters of Russia and Iran, adopt positions from a different perspective.

The family of the former military officer denounces cruel punishment, total isolation, and a lack of specialized medical care.

Many people watch one day pass after another as if life lasted a thousand years, doing the same tasks, with the goal to find food for the day