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Thirty Years Since the Most Iconic Hug in Cuban Cinema

Fresa y chocolate was the first fiction feature movie to openly deal with the subject of homophobia in Cuba; as well as other taboo subjects.

Sulmira Martinez Perez was arrested by State Security agents on January 10th for announcing her intention to protest in the streets of Cuba.

To give you an idea of the event, there were 470 candidates for 470 National Assembly seats, and, of course, they were all voted in.

The money will be used to pay Pleatex’s debt to Blue Capital Partners, two foreign companies that have operated in Cuba

Mabel Cuesta tell us about her relationship with Cuba, its symbols, its rough edges, its beautiful and ugly parts, its beloved people…

Chinese tourists allocate a good part of their budget to shopping, and prefer places with internet connections and electronic payment systems

I passed by an old sick man’s house. He brought up the elections. He told me he wouldn’t have gone to the polling place but had no way out…

The national symbols are off-bounds, unless you are a tourist or an official, or the government finds a way to profit from them.

I landed in Havana with the foreigner’s enamored gaze, these eyes that follow the vintage American cars from one street corner to the next…

The trend is in stark contrast to the days of staggering results, close to 100 percent, still on record two decades ago.