Photo Feature

Cuba’s Ignacio Piñero Septet Turns 85

Founded in 1927, The Ignacio Piñeiro National Septet is one of the mainstays of traditional Cuban “son” music. Many top musicians have passed through the Ignacio Piñeiro Septet in these 85 years. Today, they are constantly meeting commitments abroad and when they return to Cuba, they still perform for Cuban lovers of son in all its variants. (28 photos)

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Cuba Hosts Psycho-ballet Event

The 3rd International Psycho-ballet Conference on “Dancing with the Heart” was held over five days earlier this month at Havana’s Africa Museum. Participating countries, showing their efforts in this innovative field were Colombia, Mexico, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, and Nicaragua. (29 photos)

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Cuba’s Aponte: Absence and Vindication

The intersection of Havana’s Monte and Aponte streets was the stage of an extremely unusual incident: a highly mixed crowd of people, convened in this public space, sang the National Anthem and “vandalized” one of the walls of a building. But this story doesn’t start here. We must go some way back in history. (11 photos)

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Sancti Spiritus Is Not Havana

I left Sancti Spiritus when I was 17. Back then, Chinese buses had not yet invaded Cuba’s interprovincial roads, and a ticket to Havana cost a mere 23 pesos. (37 photos)

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Venezuela: Elections and the Hill Top Barracks

As I write, Nicolas Maduro and the Cuartel de la Montaña (Hill Top Barracks), must be the person and the place most sought after in Internet search engines. Maduro, as the newly elected president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, and the Barracks for being, perhaps, the most visited place in Caracas on election day. (12 photos)

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Baseball/Cuba: Industriales & Cienfuegos

The second half of the Cuban baseball season is well underway and Cienfuegos has moved into the top spot among the eight competing teams. HT was on hand recently for the final game of a three-game series with Havana’s Industriales hosting Cienfuegos. The regular season ends on May 22 followed by the playoffs. (27 photos)

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Buena Vista Social Club Returns to Chile

Cuba’s Buena Vista Social Club band led by singer Omara Portuondo returns to Santiago de Chile for a concert on May 3rd.. The photographer brings us these images from an earlier presentation of Buena Vista in Santiago de Chile. (7 photos)

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Young Talent in My Home Town

Santiago de Cuba is often called a musical city. It’s a place where it’s commonplace to walk the streets and find yourself in any park, square or corner filled with troubadours, singers, comedians and dancers. Usually, on the weekends, esplanades and plazas are sites for shows of all types. Here’s a photo feature of the local chapter of the children’s theater group La Colmenita. (16 photos)

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Surprises at Cuba’s Festival of Young Filmmakers

The XII Festival of Young Filmmakers is currently underway in the Cuban capital, but hurry, it ends on Sunday April 7. The Chaplin, Sala Charlot, 23rd and 12st and ICAIC theaters are projecting the Cuban works in competition as well as international works that include a sampling from the Festival of Short Films from Clermont-Ferrand, France. (17 photos)

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Qva Libre Band in Santiago de Cuba

With its infectious beat and sui generis look, including the use of large colored hats, Qva Libre had young people dancing and enjoying themselves at the Universidad de Oriente in Santiago de Cuba on April 2. (20 photos)

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