This Summit of the Americas will be the first Cuba attends, but the central issue of debate will be, not the island’s re-established relations with the US, but Washington’s declarations against Venezuela.
Read MoreOrestes Barreira is the owner of a cafe and will soon be traveling to the United States to buy the household appliances, coffee, condiments and other supplies he needs for his business.
Read More“I think cops track us down through smell, like dogs do. There’s no getting rid of the stench of curdled milk that sticks to your body, not even with the best soap,” said Isabel who buys cheese from farmers and sells it illegally in Havana.
Read MoreThirty Cuban and Cuban-American players who opened the 2015 MLB contest on the big league rosters receive wages for the year amounting together to US $135 million, a figure higher than the payroll of at least 20 franchises in the current season.
Read MoreMarcos Menendez competed at last week’s New Filmmakers Festival with his fourth piece, a short, animated film completed in 2014 titled Un dia mas (“Another Day”). The animation, winner of the Latinoamerica en Corto Award at Madrid’s 13th Notodofilmfest Short Film Festival, tells the story of Manolo, a man mired in a daily, alienating routine. In 2011, Menendez had already received a special mention at the festival for his piece Lluvia de estrellas (“Raining Stars”).
Read MoreAfter paying 10 Cuban pesos (about 35 cents USD) no one seemed to notice us three Gringos as we passed under the arched entryway to Havana’s Rancho Boyeros fairgrounds to attend the 18th International Agricultural Fair and Rodeo. (17 photos)
Read MoreNot long before putting his hat in the electoral race, Republican senator from Texas Ted Cruz took up an entire hour of a Fox News program to tell the story of his father’s struggle against dictator Fulgencio Batista.
Read MoreThis year, the 2nd Vladimir Malakhov Grand Prix (named after the renowned international dancer) will be offering a series of interesting scholarships to dancers and choreographers in the United States. Paul Seaquist, the festival producer, talks to us about the event.
Read MoreCarlos M. Quintela’s La obra del siglo (“The Work of the Century”) was filmed in Cuba’s Juragua nuclear city, in the province of Cienfuegos, a place that invokes the great illusions the island harbored during the 1980s.
Read MoreThose of us with some gray in our hair, or those who left Cuba after the severe economic crisis struck the island in the 1990s, will recall that, at the time, basketball was the second most popular sport in the country, second only to baseball. In practice, the material conditions facing players back then weren’t a whole lot better than they are today, but a successful generation of athletes would fill the court with fans, eager to enjoy the magical way in which Roberto Carlos Herrera handled the ball, or how Lazaro Borrell or Richard Matienzo dunked it.
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