Easton and I met at a community center for children. His “indignation” was the motive for this conversation, and despite the “games” of understanding that we had with the two languages, it was able to happen. Thanks again to his friend Erica.
Read MoreEduardo Sanchez Torel is an Argentinian-born actor with a distinguished career in Spain and Cuba. As he noted, “I appreciate the struggle of Mariela Castro to change things.”
Read MoreYasser Lezcano is a point of reference in the visual arts in Cuba. He told HT: “I never saw art as a way of life, nor did I dream that I would make a living from it.”
Read More“It’s good that there are more women creating Cuban trova songs,” said Heidi Igualada in her interview with Havana Times.
Read MoreMariela Castro, daughter of Cuban President Raúl Castro, and a champion of LGBTQ rights, gave an exclusive interview to Democracy Now, which authorized HT to republish the exchange.
Read More“I was a student of music at the Amadeo Roldán Conservatory, in my fourth year studying piano, with some great teachers, and one day I came home and told my family to sell the piano because I wasn’t going to continue studying music, I wanted to be a great storyteller,” Mayra Navarro told HT.
Read MoreToday I am going to interview an amazing person, Nadia Lozada Jerez, writer and storyteller, who works in the Provincial Book Center of Santiago de Cuba, but is known among her friends and acquaintances as a scholar and practitioner of various mystical and religious currents.
Read MoreThe soprano Milagro de los Angeles, one of opera’s leading figures in Cuba today, recorded her first album with a rich selection of music. As she pointed out, though, “Incredibly, my debut in a leading role wasn’t in my country.”
Read MoreI met Adrian Replanski after waking him up one night in 2007. Late that night I was devouring “Fabrica de humo” (“Smoke Factory,” his first feature film) and a few opportune buttered bread rolls sold at the cafe located a few step from the Linea Avenue tunnel.
Read MoreMy relationship with Cuba is a story of politics and love intertwined. I had a communist boyfriend with whom I argued a lot about the need to reform society, in France as elsewhere. He always ended the discussion by pointing to Cuba as an example of the new society we needed.
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