So as the summer break was coming to an end, I decided to take my son to the Isla de Coco (“Coconut Island”) amusement park. The park was built where the renowned “Coney Island” was once located, in Havana’s neighborhood of Playa.
Read MoreFelix took five days making a journey that, on a plane, takes no more than 40 minutes. He left Havana one Sunday afternoon and arrived in Miami Thursday night. He was exhausted, unbathed, unshaven, famished and weighed several pounds less, but when he hugged his relatives at the end of the trip he was very happy. After all, he had been lucky.
Read MoreCuban sports authorities have just degraded yet another of their baseball greats: former player, coach and manager Antonio Pacheco, known as the “Captain of Captains” till recently.
Read MoreLast week, my son Rogelito, my wife Yasmin, her mother Silvia and I went to Cuba’s National Zoo. I will use some of the many pictures we took to accompany my impressions during our outing. (8 photos)
Read More“What I don’t understand is that they should work so hard to look for the games to broadcast that are ultimately the least attractive for us, the ones with no Cuban players,” says a baseball fan at Havana’s Parque Central sports talk corner.
Read MoreTwenty years ago, a massive exodus of Cuban rafters – some 35 thousand left the country – marked the beginning of the end for this type of illegal emigration. Washington and Havana reached an agreement whereby all Cubans captured at sea would be returned to the island.
Read MoreToday, August 13th, Fidel Castro reaches 88, an event celebrated in all of Cuba’s official media. Castro, who officially left office due to serious illness in July 2006, is still the top advisor to the government of his younger brother Raul, 83.
Read More“Samsara”: A woman hallucinates another reality, where she is free. A short fiction film directed by Maria Elisa Perez Leal. “It’s about a personal story with my mother.” (2010) 5:35 minutes.
Read MoreI recently had a delightful taste of Cuban music right in my own Canadian back yard. This wonderful concert starred Jane Bunnett and her all-woman band, Maqueque, who were brought to our local Algonquin Theatre stage by the Huntsville Festival of the Arts, during their annual August jazz weekend. (11 photos)
Read MoreThe world premiere of Return to Ithaca, a film by French director Laurent Cantet inspired by a story written by Cuban novelist Leonardo Padura, will take place at the 71st Venice International Film Festival, to be held from August 27 to September 6 this year.
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