According 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.
Read MoreThe Cuban-Japanese duo ExCorde is formed by Yacel Sagarra and Aya Hashimoto. “Promoting our work has become a challenge, between the fierce consumerism of reggaeton and the lack of backing from an officially recognized promotion company.”
Read MoreCuban actor Caleb Casas lives and works as an actor in Colombia, a country with many cultural ties to Cuba. “I’m in another country making a living at what really makes me feel realized,” he told HT in his interview in Havana.
Read MoreRosa Esther is one of those people who have begun to form part of the landscape of our historical city center. I could easily have passed right by her without much notice, except for the fact that Esther is in a wheelchair – “the car”, as she calls it.
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