Religion is a phenomenon that has accompanied the development of Cuban society, and it unquestionably revived after 1990, with the beginning of the “Special Period.” That economic crisis brought the need for atonement. (22 photos)
Read MoreWhile technically summer is still with us for another week, for most Cubans the beginning of September and the new school year marked the end of the season. (43 photos)
Read MoreDozens of people sympathetic to the Cuban Revolution assembled this past Saturday in front of the Barcelona, Spain city council offices to show their support for the Cuban Five, imprisoned in the United States for the last 12 years. (16 photos)
Read MoreThe best experiences in my life I’ve had on the summits of mountains. However I’ve never been able to bear living permanently among them, without a glimmer of the sea, because this was something I became familiar with very early. There were no mysteries to discover. For me it was enough to experience the sea full of salt and blueness, its intrinsic freedom. (34 photos)
Read MoreIt 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)
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