Today 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.
Read More“I’m a guajira (a farm girl), and I’ll always be one,” said Cuban singer Leyanis Lopez in her interview with HT. “My first record was in 1999, “Como la mariposa” (Like a butterfly), on the foreign label Lusafrica, along with my musicians in Guantanamo.”
Read More“My little girl was called Lesdiany Rodriguez Vidal; she was twelve years old and was in the 8th grade in the “People’s Republic of Angola” high school in the East Havana housing projects of Alamar,” said Anabel Vidal Fernandez who wants justice.
Read MoreMy idea about the bloggers associated with the website “Voces Cubanas” didn’t differ much from what the government tries to make us believe, seeing them as a group of cyber-mercenaries in the service of imperialism.
Read MoreProjects registered on www.yagruma.org are funded by visitors to the site interested in what it has to offer whether it is a documentary, an exhibition, a video clip, a movie, a book, or a long list of projects. To find out more about the web site I met up with Ubaldo Huerta, one of its founders, on an afternoon early in May 2012.
Read MoreConsidered one of the greatest exponents of Cuban photography in recent times, Pedro Abascal — self-taught — involves us in each of his images of the varied themes of Havana life. His work is showing within the 11th Havana Biennial Art Festival underway through June 11 in the capital.
Read MoreTwo years ago I interviewed Michel (Nonardo) Perea Enriquez, writer and plastic artist. Homosexual. His partners, always occasional, were guys who defined themselves as heterosexual in public and even in private adopted homophobic attitudes and were never seen with him in the street.
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