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What Gold Means to Cuba in Baseball

This World Cup Baseball tournament has generated more than a few opinions, as always. In different Havana bars people met to criticize, enjoy and suffer the World Cup. Some shouted, while others suffered the tension in silence – sighing and wiping the sweat from their brows with their hands. Cubans have a bad habit of lionizing their team when it wins, filling themselves with pride. But when the opposite strikes, they trash these same players, as if on other occasions they hadn’t played better.

The Mystery of Belkis Ayón

Many people remember the instant the news came. A question raced through the minds of an entire generation: Why? In 1999, the painter and lithographer Belkis Ayón decided to end her life. She was only 32 years old but was already one of the most talented and recognized visual artists on the island.

Juanes’s Cuba Event in Full Color

While the significance of the all-afternoon concert on Sunday in Cuba’s Revolution Square continues to generate commentary, Havana Times offers our readers a close look at some of the over a million Cubans and foreign visitors that made it to the plaza despite the burning sun.

A Night with Cuba’s Conjunto Folklórico

The performance includes choreographies that represent different deities adored in the Afro-Cuban religion. Colors identifying each one of them, their accessories and movements accompany the rhythms that vibrate throughout the theater. The spectacle is called “Rhythms of Cuba.”

Havana & Its Dogs

The stories pet owners tell are quite varied, as are their reasons for owning dogs, cats, turtles or parrots. Many of them are not aware of their responsibilities to the animals: that they should feed them, take care of them and protect their health. The irresponsibility of owners towards their dogs is a serious problem in Havana.

Cuba Opens World Cup vs. Puerto Rico

Cuba plays its first game in the 38th World Cup Baseball Tournament today against Puerto Rico in Barcelona, Spain. The Cubans hope to retake the title they lost in the finals to the United States in 2007.

Pablo Menendez and Mezcla Jams

We residents of Havana have another great option for enjoying the best of the island’s music. “Todo mezclado” (Everything mixed) is the name and aim of music sessions organized by Pablo Menendez and the group Mezcla.

A Wooden Zoo on a Cuban Street

Artists will always a find good reason to turn the ugly, dirty and damaged into harmonic and pleasurable forms, and that’s just was what sculptor Roberto Fabre did on a street in the eastern Cuban city of Bayamo.

Interacting in Old Havana

The audience was very diverse: rockers, emos, rappers, and “reparteras” from the “hood” of Old Havana – people who normally have nothing to do with each other but who were united in song. And though they did not meld completely, they still managed to achieve a great degree of harmony.

Haydee Milanes Opens New Havana Venue

Haydee Milanes was the guest for the opening of the space called “Hamaca” (Hammock). Her tender voice and pop-jazz songs ended in style an afternoon that announced rain but ended up sunny, as has happened most of this summer.