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Classical Music at the Roldan Theater

Upcoming classical music concerts at the Amadeo Roldan Theater on Calzada and D Streets in Havana’s Vedado District.

Manu Chao Concerts in Cuba for Che

French-Spanish rock singer Manu Chao arrives to Cuba on Tuesday night, invited by the Hermanos Saiz Cultural Association to give two concerts dedicated to Ernesto “Che” Guevara.

Cuban Artists Meet With US Officials

Important Cuban artists, such as orchestra director Zenaida Romeo, jazz pianist Chucho Valdés and painter Roberto Fabelo, attended a reception at the residence of Jonathan Farrar, head of the U.S. Interests Section in Havana, after years of distancing during the George W. Bush administration.

Small Farmers Booted in Honduras

Early Wednesday morning, hundreds of soldiers and police arrived at the National Agrarian Institute and evicted the more than 50 persons belonging to farm organizations and Institute workers who for the last three months have occupied the installations demanding a return to order and democracy in the country.

The Mystery of Belkis Ayón

Many people remember the instant the news came. A question raced through the minds of an entire generation: Why? In 1999, the painter and lithographer Belkis Ayón decided to end her life. She was only 32 years old but was already one of the most talented and recognized visual artists on the island.

Unnecessary and Sad

As a poet, writer, and photographer I am most familiar with how issues of power have played themselves out within Cuba’s intellectual and artistic milieus. During my years on the island, and since, there have been times of great openness and others of a more repressive nature in which certain groups gained control and individuals and/or categories of persons suffered greatly.

Bad Press

With such emphasis on good literature I was always perplexed by the poor quality of Cuba’s press, especially its daily newspapers. Granma, the official voice of the Cuban Communist Party, appeared each morning in a format of six to eight or ten pages. It was almost unreadable.
Long speeches by Fidel or other government officials were printed in their entirety as were the formal addresses given by distinguished visitors from the other socialist countries.

Happy Juanes Returns to Miami

Colombian singer Juanes returned to his home in Miami and said he was happy to have contributed to the reconciliation between the Cuban exile community and those who live in the island.

Juanes’s Cuba Event in Full Color

While the significance of the all-afternoon concert on Sunday in Cuba’s Revolution Square continues to generate commentary, Havana Times offers our readers a close look at some of the over a million Cubans and foreign visitors that made it to the plaza despite the burning sun.

Cuba Wanted Her Fishermen Back

The news spread via radio bemba [the grapevine] and every other communication medium. Eleven Cuban fishermen had been attacked, their small boats capsized, the men themselves kidnapped. They were being held on a Caribbean atoll. The rightist group Alfa 66 claimed responsibility for the operation, and demanded a number of counterrevolutionary prisoners in exchange for their release.