The husband of blogger Yoani Sanchez, one of the 100 most influential persons in the world according to Time magazine for 2008, is currently minding the fort while Yoani is off on a worldwide tour. The following is part two of our interview with journalist Reinaldo Escobar.
Read MoreFor months I had wanted to interview Reinaldo Escobar – the blogger and moderator of an audiovisual panel discussion project called Razones Ciudadanas. He’s also the husband of blogger Yoani Sanchez, who is currently on an international tour.
Read MoreTo find out more about the annual “Erotic Art Salon” visual arts competition — a significant event here in Havana — we spoke with Miguel Roura. He’s one of the specialists at the Fayad Jamis Art Gallery, the institutional host of this event (underway until April 14 in the Alamar suburb of the capital), where he has worked since the gallery’s founding.
Read MoreAccording to 34-year-old Cuban jazz pianist Rolando Luna: I’ve always known that I was privileged. My first experience backing up a singer was when I was only 15. That was with none other than the great Omara Portuondo.“
Read MoreI attempted to clarify the thinking of Grady Ross Daugherty, the leader and founder of the “modern cooperative socialist movement” in the United States and who is a regular reader of HT. He believes that cooperatives with private ownership under a socialist state is the way to go for Cuba.
Read MoreAfter taking pictures of the protagonist of my last article, “This Government Cares for its people (2)” I walked on down Obispo St. in the direction of the Plaza de Armas. I turned right onto Mercaderes Street by force of habit, and there I saw another man in a wheelchair. I had already gone a few steps past him, but I decided to go back.
Read More“The reality of a dancer is as complex as that any other person’s. I know that people imagine dancers to be like those porcelain dolls that break if you squeeze them a little, or maybe like women who are somewhat stretched,” said Patricia Hernandez in her interview with HT.
Read MoreThe Hindus pray to be always in the right place at the right time. From that perspective, I couldn’t have been anywhere else on the afternoon of February 2nd, but at the Cathedral in Old Havana. I was there to see an unusual concert of a very atypical duo: Ananda Stephan and Joseph Röösli, father and son.
Read MoreNo international matter is of greater concern to the Cuban government than the case of the Cuban Five, imprisoned in the USA since 1998. The man with the longest sentence is Gerardo Hernandez who besides a conspiracy to commit espionage charge was given a life sentence for his alleged role in the 1996 shooting down of two Brothers to the Rescue planes that violated Cuban airspace.
Read MoreSeveral members of the official government press and TeleSur TV were given the opportunity to ask Fidel Castro, 86, questions about the Cuban elections, the health of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the Community of Latin American and Carribean States (CELAC), the subject of future writings, etc.
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