Interviews

“Doing bonsai is obtaining a front row seat in the marvelous show of nature,” says Jorge L. Guerra, on the Havana Bonsai Group website. “I consider myself an addict, just like other group members,” he adds in this recent interview published by Havana Times.

The rules for “being a man” that predominate in Latin America include “never saying no” to temptations out on the street, being “macho” — hanging tough — no matter what the risks, and above all, avoiding any characteristics or feelings that might be seen as feminine or cast doubts on one’s masculinity.

“The screening of Riverside promises to be quite an event in Cuba, a country where emigration to the US touches many families,” Director Harold Trompetero told Havana Times in an interview. “I would love for every Cuban to see the film. When they see the end they will know why.”

While Cuba-US government relations have fluctuated from cold to icy over the last 50 years, a citizen’s movement has kept the candle burning between the two neighboring countries. On the eve of the US elections, Havana Times interviewed Lisa Valanti, president of the US-Cuba Sister Cities Association.

The corporate media never covers us; the New York Times has never mentioned Project Censored; the Los Angeles Times did a book review once, but they really do not want to talk about us, they just wish we would go away.

Interview with Susan McDade, UN Resident Coordinator in Cuba

More than 2.5 million Cubans were evacuated by the civil defense system when hurricane Ike lashed the island this month. And although only seven people were killed, more than one million no longer have an intact home to return to.