Interviews

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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Seeking Relief: An Interview with an Amazing Person

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.

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Cuban Soprano Milagro de los Angeles

The 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.”

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Another Cuban in the Cosmos

I 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.

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