In Cuba, you can run into a talented athlete who’s just traded kicks with New York’s Cosmos and fraternized with soccer legends Pele and Raul and who, after wiping off the sweat worked up by the match, returns to his native city to continue roughing it with his private “business.”
Read MoreDuring Rihanna’s recent visit to Havana, Cuban camera operators and photographers who work for different foreign press outlets were attacked. They were insulted, threatened and pricked with pins by a group of thugs.
Read MoreThe final score didn’t make a difference. Nor was the mood ruined by the rain and the unusually gray skies, which threatened to dampen the spirits of the unprecedented soccer match held in Havana.
Read MoreHousing is an issue of concern for large numbers of people around the world, particularly in Latin America. For the 12th Havana Arts Biennale, Mexican artist Sandra Calvo delves into the controversial issue of the family space with a project titled “The Multiplicity of the Inner Landscape”.
Read MoreLudwig Tomescu is one of the best piano tuners in New York, after more than 30 years with Steinway & Sons. When in 2013 Manhattan School of Music professor Solomon Mikowsky invited him to come to Cuba for the first Encounter of Young Pianists, Mikowsky didn’t have to convince him. “He told me that they needed a technician and I answered: ‘Well, that’s my dream — going to Cuba.’”
Read MoreOver the past 25 years, Cuba has built a largely organic farming system out of necessity. When the Soviet Union collapsed, Cuba lost its main supplier of fertilizers and pesticides. What will the changing U.S.-Cuban relationship mean for Cuban farmers?
Read MoreMaidelin looks at the clock. It’s five in the afternoon. The lights of four USB drives connected to a hub still flicker. Her boy is waiting at the day care center, her little girl has perhaps already returned from school. Her husband Hector left a few minutes ago to collect the take from two associated salespersons.
Read MoreWhat consequences will this measure have? How much will it accelerate the establishment of “normal” diplomatic relations with the United States? How does it influence Cuba’s insertion into the global economy? Several Cuban academics offer their views on the subject.
Read MoreHavana’s 12th Arts Biennial has been more surprising than anyone could have imagined: so much disinformation and last-minute changes have to be a performance designed to interact with the public and remain in step with the nature of the gathering. (17 photos)
Read More“In Cuba, there are people who believe the country can be transformed without legal reforms, or by implementing legal reforms later,” jurist and historian Julio Antonio Fernandez Estrada complains. “The letter of the constitution has been virtually frozen for 40 years. Today, in practice, we have many more rights than the constitution recognizes, which isn’t to say we don’t need many more rights.”
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