Noriko Shingaki arrived in Cuba five years ago from Osaka where she was born: “I decided to offer my cooking to whoever wants to try it, I make family meals, the kind that can be eaten daily at any Japanese home.”
Read MoreCuba’s Central highway opened on February 24, 1931. It covers 1139 kilometers, from Pinar del Rio to Santiago de Cuba, and it’s narrow 6 meters of width are no match for the 21st century.
Read MoreThe most recent video to shock the world, revealing the hidden face of a society in a state of decomposition, is not exceptional. What’s different today is the fact cell phones have proliferated to all corners of the globe combined with Internet access.
Read MoreThe third consecutive Latin American Free Software festival concluded in Cuba on Saturday. Of special interest to participants were the Cuban solutions for using Wi-Fi connections from mobile phones.
Read MoreThey dress in white. On Sunday, they go to the church, the Our Lady of Charity Church on Salud Street. They come out as a procession, stop at a street corner, yell out some slogans, hand out anti-government propaganda and leave. Curious onlookers, almost entirely misinformed about them, identify them as the Ladies in White.
Read MoreWe are still hearing the echoes of the veritable political blows dealt the Cuban leadership by Obama in their own ring, but these are not the only blows dealt the system, from behind bars, by those who would challenge the island’s current authoritarianism on a daily basis.
Read MoreObama definitively does away with that omnipresent enemy that every authoritarian power needs to maintain collective paralysis and to justify its actions. The government can no longer turn to the image of a besieged fortress as a means of doing politics.
Read More“Get inside, don’t give us any trouble. I warned you, you won’t get away with it this time, that’s what the police officer said to me on March 1st. Incidentally, days before people were saying that Obama’s coming and we have to clean up the streets.”
Read MoreYesterday, I had the fortune of finding an old Life magazine. Carefully turning the frail pages, printed on November 3, 1958, the living-color images of France Nuyen caught my eye. The reason I ended up paying 3 CUC (US $3.50) for the magazine, however, were rather more compelling: one of the headlines on the front page promised an extensive article on Julio Lobo, “the Sugar King.”
Read MoreOn February 22, when I checked my inbox, I came across one of those unwanted messages one gets without knowing where it came from and why one was chosen as addressee. I generally erase these spam messages, but, sometimes, curiosity gets the better of me.
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