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Halloween and Havana’s Maxim Rock Club

For most Cubans, Halloween is just an occasion to dress up and have a good time. If the costume is something terrifying, even better.

The recognition to the film “will greatly bother the Cuban dictatorship,” say its filmmakers.

The two girls were going to see their first live concert. When the music began, they ran to take refuge near the stage, for fear being crushed

Intellectuals who have dared to raise their voices, even if only slightly, have suffered the iron hand of the repressive state apparatus.

Her passion for the tres guitar came almost randomly, if that’s possible. When she was studying at the conservatory she was invited…

It’s expected that thousands of Cubans will carry her in their pockets and take her back to the land that belongs to her…

“Pinochet never faced justice and that impunity made him eternal, it turned him into a vampire,” said the award-winning Chilean director.

“In order to talk about the beginnings of reparto music, we have to start with the force of reggaeton which began in Cuba about 20 years ago.”

“It is a song that seeks to inspire Nicaraguans to continue the struggle for freedom,” explains Carla Mendoza, author of the song’s lyrics.

Ichaso’s “El Super” marks a difference in Cuban film made in the US as it strips itself of the political rhetoric that limited other movies.