Carrying flags and mostly wearing red, the workers passed through Santiago de Cuba’s Antonio Maceo Revolution Square. Most of the banners and signs said: “Preserve and Improve Socialism”, the theme designated by the CTC, Cuba’s only labor confederation. (20 photos)
Read MoreInternational Workers Day in Cuba is a highly organized annual rally in support of the government and its policies. Marches take place in the different provinces, municipalities and even rural communities. The biggest parade is at Revolution Square in the capital. Here is today’s work of HT photographers in Havana. (41 photos)
Read MoreA stroll through the narrow streets of the La Sierrita mountainous community in Cienfuegos province allowed me to stumble on to May Day in advance. Well yeah, you heard me right: Their celebration of International Workers Day was held on April 27. (30 photos)
Read MoreThe International Day of Dance (April 29) has been celebrated this week at Havana’s Mella Theater with a series of presentations by some of the top traditional and contemporary dance troupes on the island. HT was on hand to photograph the performance of the Cuban television ballet performers. (12 photos)
Read MoreThe second largest zoo on the island is in the city of Santiago de Cuba. Built over half a century ago and covering a several acre area. (43 photos)
Read MoreDance invades the streets of Old Havana this Saturday and Sunday for the final days of the XVII International Dance Festival in Urban Landscapes: City in Motion. The event includes parades with the street performers Giganteria Havana, exhibitions, workshops for children and youth, and dance performances in the streets and squares of Old Havana. (44 photos)
Read MoreCubans like to celebrate, dance and accompany their celebrations with good food, and beer or rum. But for many, good food in Cuba is inconceivable without pork. When a pig is slaughtered at someone’s house, there’s a fiesta in the neighborhood with many coming to see how it’s killed, skinned, gutted, cut apart, and fried or roasted. (27 photos)
Read MoreThis past Friday, I walked the streets of Caracas, like on many other occasions, with thousands of Venezuelans in support of the Chavez government. I simply went out with my camera, walked for several hours snapping pictures, listening to people, dancing with them, and hearing their stories. (33 photos)
Read MoreClose to the massive Gran Piedra rock formation in eastern Cuba, is an area settled by French colonists in the 18th and 19th centuries. Here they developed coffee plantations of paradigmatic vernacular and industrial architecture, though what remains today are, for the most part, the ruins of dozens of those estates. (31 photos)
Read MoreOn the last day of March the Core Metal Fest 2012 took place at the Maxim Rock club in Havana.During the concert that lasted 10 hours performed groups including Suffering Tool, Breaking Blessed, Seven Day, Darkness Fall, Say Chesend Day, Chlover y Dead Point. (11 photos)
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