Interviews

Jorge Brooks, Manager of Cuba’s Danza Contemporanea

Writer, poet and essayist Jorge Brooks is also the manager of “Danza Contemporanea de Cuba” (the Cuban Contemporary Dance company), the most international troupe on the island. Reflecting on the arts, Brooks said, “You have to understand that art is a product that is sold.”

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An Occupier from NYC in Havana (Part 2)

We bring you part two of our interview with Easton, a native of Salt Lake City, Utah who lives in New York City studying at Sarah Lawrence University. Easton has participated actively with the Occupy Wall Street movement and studied for four months last year in Cuba.

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Democracy Now: Peña Leads Mexico Vote

Mexico’s old ruling party, Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), is set to return to power after early election results indicate the PRI candidate Enrique Peña Nieto has won the presidential election. Peña Nieto’s chief rival, the leftist candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has not conceded, but the PRI has already claimed victory.

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An Occupier from New York in Havana

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.

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Cuban Storyteller Mayra Navarro

“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.

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