It was a busy day in which the artists (designers, painters, actors, dancers and musicians) melded with the public. This was a scene from the “First Propositions for a Living Planet Festival” taking place in Havana’s Ciudad Deportiva sports city complex. (23 photos)
Read MoreResidents of Maracaibo, Venezuela feel pride in three things: their lake, the bridge and “La Chinita.” Recently I toured around the enormous lake and crossed the astonishing bridge. Never in my life have I seen such a monumental feat of construction engineering. (21 photos)
Read MoreThis summer I went to visit my family in my tierra natal: Pinar del Rio Province. I have to admit, though, that I wasn’t prepared for the flood of both agonizing and appealing images that appeared; that’s why I wanted to share them. (30 photos)
Read MoreNot everything is poetic or magical in this place; some youths with love for their partners —but little for Mother Nature— leave their names carved into trunks of the bamboos. There are also those who are involved in the illicit cutting down of the bamboo trees.
Read MoreWhat caught my attention was the huge number of kids at the entrance of the Teresa Carreño Theater in Caracas. Someone told me this was because La Colmenita was to perform, but then they added that there would be two Colmenitas: one from Cuba and the other from Venezuela. (20 photos)
Read MoreI was always more and more surprised, because one year this man was a drag queen, the next year a transvestite, the following one a writer (without having finished school), and now he’s even become a visual artist, an actor and I don’t know how many other things. (16 photos)
Read MoreThe people of Cienfuegos are among the proudest I’ve ever found. Most assured me that they wouldn’t ever live in the capital for anything in the world. I myself love the bay, famous among singers for its beauty. (23 photos)
Read MoreWe find it paradoxical to see his image used in Cuba to commercialize products – everywhere from markets run by cuentapropistas (people authorized to set up small businesses) to stores owned and operated by the State. (22 photos)
Read MoreCubans can surprise you for the things they know or the things they can tell you. Even when they’ve never left their country, they speak of other places as if they had lived there. (31 photos)
Read MoreWe just added 26 more great new pictures to this gallery of Havana street scenes. The Cuban capital is full of life out on the city streets, even more so during the hot, humid summer months. (77 photos)
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