Blinded by a horse at the age of seven, Arsenio Rodriguez (1911-1970) went on to become one of Cuba’s greatest musicians, composers and bandleaders: “El Ciego Maravilloso” (The Marvellous Blind One).
Read MoreIn front of the old Palace of the General Captains, in the Plaza de Armas in Old Havana, the used booksellers give a picturesque touch to one of the most popular places for international tourism.
Read MoreA 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.
Read MoreA group of Nicaraguans who reside in New York and New Jersey decided to organize an exhibition entitled “It hurts to breathe”, in order to continue denouncing the massacre and the repression that the Nicaraguan people are living through.
Read MoreThe CD under the title “Soy lo que soy” (I am what I am), from the Cuban singer Virginia Guantanamera, was presented within the framework of Cubadisco 2019.
Read MoreBebo Valdes was a masterful pianist, composer and bandleader. One of Cuba’s greatest. Yet, after a dizzying career in the ‘40s and ‘50s (which included a recording with Nat King Cole), international fame came late for him as he managed to lose himself in Sweden after falling in love on tour.
Read MoreThe sixth literary festival “Centroamerica Cuenta 2019” closed in San Jose, Costa Rica with a “concert-talk show” by representatives of two generations from a family of musicians: Luis Enrique Mejia Godoy and Luis Enrique Mejia Lopez, who talked about their songs and about their lives as artists who have upheld the name of Nicaragua.
Read MoreThere was (and still is) a Cafe Paris in Havana too, on the corner of O’Reilly and Compostela Streets, which an exclusive group of young dandies, musicians and intellectuals would regularly go to, including some of the writers and poets who have left their mark on Cuban literature.
Read MoreThe 2nd edition of the Aguacate, Mayabeque, Cuba, Festival of the Arts is set take place on Saturday and Sunday May 25-26 with activities for people of all ages.
Read MoreIn a parallel universe Nicaragua has become a technologically advanced society, but it is dominated by the Orewellian State led by the Supreme Commander. This perverse being has created a plan to appropriate all assets and convert Nicaraguans into followers who cannot reason or think for themselves.
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