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Chinese New Year Celebration in Cuba

The Chinese New Year has been celebrated in Cuba with a series of activities that started January 17 and end on February 14. The most important events take place in Havana’s Chinatown. (20 photos)

Havana’s Street Art

Graffiti is part of the urban environment of all the world’s major (and not-so-major) cities. While some forms of graffiti are veritable works of art, others undermine the city’s aesthetic beauty and norms. (20 photos)

Crossing the Venezuelan Amazon on a Barge

One of the most widely traveled routes used to reach Puerto Ayacucho, the capital of Venezuela’s state of Amazonas, is by crossing the Amazon River with the barge that departs from Puerto Paez, leaving behind San Fernando de Apure. (15 photos)

Dance Rituals of the Yoruba Religion

A very popular Cuban song from the 90s speaks about the culture that slaves brought to Cuba from Africa, telling us these traditions came from Africa and stayed with us thereafter. Today, the culture and rites of the Yoruba religion are indeed an essential part of Cuban folklore. (20 photos)

Nature & Gardening: A Joint Art Show in Havana

The Cuban visual arts collective 3STADO Solido has teamed up with US fine arts professor Harriet Frank to offer us Los misterios de la naturaleza (“The Mysteries of Nature”), a highly interesting exhibition open to viewing until the end of the month. (20 photos)

We Visit Santa Cruz del Norte, Cuba

Located in the province of Mayabeque, east of Havana, the town of Santa Cruz del Norte, today the capital of the municipality of the same name, was founded by four families from Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, on May 3, 1714. (27 photos)

Caracas Fire Fighters to the Rescue

I’ll make a point of looking at the pine tree facing my room more often. Actually, I already do this several times a day. It’s something unavoidable for me: I sit down in front of the computer to get some work done, look out the window and set my eyes on the pine tree. (16 fotos)

A Look at Havana’s Architectural Heritage

Nearly five centuries old, the city of Havana boasts a highly eclectic architecture, drawing from styles as different as the Gothic, futurism, the Baroque, cubism and art deco. The pictures show some of the city’s most renowned buildings and monuments, (39 photos)

Havana’s Beauty and Cuban Culture Pageant

“Good evening everyone. My name is Jorge Landa, and this is the second Beauty and Cuban Culture Pageant. It is an honor to be able to welcome you to our show tonight.” Thus began the evening at Havana’s Teatro America on the last Saturday of 2013. (24 photos)

Cienfuegos: a Tourist and Nuclear City

The collectible stamps that came in Cuba’s EVA-brand cigarette packs, showing nude twenty-year-olds from the 1940s; a “Red Sunday” voluntary work medal issued in Holguin in 1984, the immense Coca-Cola signs, now very much in vogue in the décor of new private businesses on the island – are some of the striking things one can come across in Cienfuegos. (38 photos)