The majority of those who come are teenagers, foreign students come in bounds, but there are also people aged 50 and over, and for the latter, there is a significant problem: they are not technologically savvy.
Read MoreDuring five decades of confrontation between the USA and Cuba, there were periods of top-secret contacts, periods ruled by an absolute freeze, and others when threats ran high.
Read MoreThe most notable impact can be seen in Havana, Varadero & Matanzas, though all Cuban provinces – to a greater or lesser extent – have a tourist infrastructure that brings in revenues for the country and for private service providers. No few people have learned to “adapt” to this reality and make some money off visitors.
Read MoreIn Cuba, which hasn’t given the visit much coverage in the media to the visit of John Kerry, many Cubans look on the day in which the Star-Spangled Banner is set to flutter in Havana again with mere curiosity and even indifference.
Read MoreThe 1970s brought with them different social movements calling for social liberation, particularly in the United States. One of these groups was called the California Bears, which gathered homosexual men interested in maintaining an image of rugged masculinity. This past July, in Havana’s neighborhood of Cerro, a group of young Cuban men decided to join this movement, creating an organization named the Cuban Bears Club.
Read MoreA new tour package being offered by Cuba’s tourism agency Cubamar will allow Cubans to hike up the island’s Turquino mountain as of this coming September, but for most the excursion will likely prove as out of reach as the high peak: 1,376 Cuban pesos (CUP) for four people.
Read MoreAs Secretary of State John Kerry prepares to fly to Cuba for a ceremony Friday to open the U.S. Embassy in Havana, we speak with an artist who used art to challenge the U.S. embargo of Cuba.
Read More“We fill forms and safeguard handbags and cell phones!” calls out a woman standing at the head of the line, which is not a line but a continuum of people who fan themselves, sweat, talk on the phone, hold their foreheads, glance at their watches, talk incessantly, meditate and think again.
Read MoreA new milestone in the historic rapprochement between two old enemies takes place this Friday when US Secretary of State John Kerry travels to Cuba to officially reopen the US embassy on the island after more than half a century.
Read MoreOn July 13, the Discovery Channel premiered the first US television series filmed entirely on location in Cuba: Cuban Chrome. The show centers on A lo cubano (“Cuban Style”), a group of mechanics who refurbish vintage American cars, popularly known as “almendrones” in Cuba. The series is to be part of a brief Cuban immersion by the channel, which, to date, has produced two additional programs: one about sharks and a more recent one about Fidel Castro.
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