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Cuba Comedy Festival in Pictures

Comedy acts are extremely popular in Cuba. The Aquelarre Festival of Humor was recently held in the Cuban capital. We were able to capture pictures of three of the presentations. (29 photos)

Dinosaurs in Havana’s Metro Park

The life-sized electro-mechanical dinosaurs there at the Metro Park have surprised everyone who has come to see them over the past few months. As the creatures move, blink and roar, those events are recorded by the cameras of children and adults alike. (23 photos)

Leonardo Da Vinci in Havana

The Genius of Leonardo Da Vinci is the title of an exhibition permanently installed in the Museum of Sacred Art of the Minor Basilica of the Convent of St. Francis of Assisi in Old Havana, the result of a cultural exchange between Italy and Cuba. (26 photos)

Fishing on the Havana Malecon Seawall

One of the favorite pastimes of many Havana residents is fishing from off the Malecon seawall. Some anglers walk away with good catches, others leave with only good suntans, but all of them feel satisfied with being able to spend a morning or afternoon with the emotions they feel when a fish swallows the bait. (25 photos)

The Shoring up of Old Havana Extends to Vedado

The shoring up of buildings for years while waiting some construction miracle to return them to their former glory was a procedure that was first put in use by the revolutionary government in the early 1970s in the Old Havana district. (9 photos)

Cuban Children’s Day in Alamar

This past Sunday, as usual, Alamar looked like a sleeping city. But in one of its areas, zone seven, something made it break that spell and awaken that part of the neighborhood from its daily apathy. It was Cuban Childrens’ Day, the third Sunday of each July, (28 photos)

Children’s Day in Cuba

The third Sunday in July is when “Children’s Day” is celebrated in Cuba. On Havana’s Prado esplanade, a festival of sports, recreation and cultural was held, which included a costume party and children’s parade. (27 photos)

Ivette Cepeda: Una Cubana en Paris

The documentary “Una Cubana en Paris” features the one-night only performance of Cuban singer Ivette Cepeda with the group Reflexión at the Enghien-le-Bains Arts Center of France.The film by Dominique Roland recently had its Cuba premiere at the Charles Chaplin Cinema in Havana with the artist on hand. (17 photos)

A Week’s Vacation (Our hike in the mountains)

By the third morning we were tired of reggaeton, the chaos and the campground in general. We packed our backpacks and took off for a trail between barren hills in the direction of the mountains to the north. (27 photos)

Pan-American Dog Show in Cuba

Earlier this year (February), the Cuban Kennel Club organized the Pan-American Championships of the “Sociedad de Fomento Canofilo,” which was the first time the event was hosted here on the island. Here’s our photo spread of the canines. (30 photos)