Photo Feature

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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Cuba’s Agro-Industrial Food Fair

The Fiagrop 2013 International Agro-Industrial Food Fair — held from March 25 to 31 at Havana’s Rancho Boyeros fairground. Besides the products exhibited, it held an international rodeo and a “coleo” (high-speed cattle chases), a favorite sport of Cuban farmers and ranchers. These two aspects are the focus of this photo feature. (31 photos)

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Storytelling Festival Concludes in Cuba

The Seventh Festival of Oral Storytelling, held in Havana from March 18 to 24 at the Bertolt Brecht Cultural Center and the Adolfo Llaurado Theater, enjoyed the participation of Cuban narrators along with ones from Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela and Senegal. (30 photos)

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Cuba: Good Friday in Old Havana

For the second consecutive year Cubans were given the day off for Good Friday, at the request of the Catholic Church. After a mass led by Cardinal Jaime Ortega, the Way of the Cross procession took place in Old Havana from the Cathedral down Mercaderes and Amargura Streets to the Plaza de Cristo. (31 photos)

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Cuba Baseball: A Night with Industriales/Matanzas

The second half of the Cuban baseball season got underway this week with the eight remaining teams battling for a playoff spot at the end of May. HT was present at Havana’s Latinoamericano Stadium for the first game of a three game series between Industriales and Matanzas. (34 photos)

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Cuban National Ballet on Stage in Havana

The Cuban National Ballet performed several works at the capital’s National Theater on March 15 including El mercader y la esclava, La flauta mágica and Desnuda luz del Amor, De un Hilo and the Gran Pas De Deux Classique. HT was on hand to capture images of their performance. (30 photos)

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