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A Cuba Hip-Hop Shell Game

The majority of people still don’t know it (and those who know keep quiet), but the hip hop symposium is the official consequence of what had been the highly acclaimed Alamar Rap Festival.

Today’s Cuba & the Ripe Fruit Policy

If the “fruit” ended up maturing and fulfilling the prediction made by the sixth president of the United States, we would have to “thank” that model implanted in Cuba in the name of “socialism and working class power.”

Heads Up on the Cuban Adjustment Act

The recent topic of debate between Havana and Miami is the “Cuban Adjustment Act.” Thanks to that legislation (1966), any citizen from the island who steps onto US soil receives residency, just as if they were a political refugee.

Is Cuba Really a Socialist Country?

If there’s one thing I understand clearly, it’s that I wouldn’t like to live in a country that wasn’t my own, nor one under a capitalist regime. But what’s capitalism, really? And is Cuba truly a socialist country?

‘Sumbe’: Another Film on the Angolan War

Sumbe, a movie by Eduardo Moya about Cuba’s military involvement in the Angolan war against colonialism and apartheid, is currently being shown in Havana cinemas.

Two, Three, or Twenty Fidels and Hugos

Few Latin American leaders have ever stirred up as much hatred and fear among our continent’s wealthy sectors and their principal partners as has the leader of the Cuban revolution, though currently President Hugo Chavez is not far behind in being the elite’s favorite target of rage.

Updating Cuba’s Immigration Policy

Every time Cuba’s general/president Raul Castro talks about “updating” something, I really don’t understand what he means. It’s probable that he’s doing this for that very reason, so that no one will understand him.

‘Habanastation,’ or a Bad Version of the Little Pink Shoes

From the first scenes, I found the manipulation of Cuban life so suspect that I doubted that the subsequent course of the film could save it from that initial elementary lack of sincerity.

True Friends Are Always There

It would have been even more difficult if it hadn’t been for those relatives and friends who are always close, the ones who help you when no one else thinks about you, those who call you when others forgot and who make you smile when you’ve begun to believe that everything’s over.

Less Cash on Cuba’s Streets

“Baro has disappeared,” repeat Cubans, implying that not as much money is circulating as before. They note that you can no longer sell anything at any price because people deliberate much more before making purchases.