Every day, as he has done for 20 years, Carlos makes the rounds collecting bets in central Havana for "la bolita" -- a ...

EVERY day, as he has done for the past 20 years, Carlos makes the rounds collecting bets in central Havana for "la bolita" – a clandestine national lottery that provides a sliver of hope for Cubans ...

It was not always like this. In the 1940s and 1950s, gambling had its golden age in Cuba, when Havana, with its casinos, betting houses, and game rooms linked to the American mafia, became the ...

No one at the finca mentioned that she later helped him leave Cuba for New Jersey. My tour of the finca complete, I returned to Havana ... to celebrate their 1940 wedding.) If her name, or ...

Cuba is famous, or maybe notorious, for the antique cars from the 1940s and 1950s that still ply ... Breakdown: An American relic in Havana in 2023. (Rick Newman) · Photo: Rick Newman Higher ...

Growing up in Marianao, a city next to Havana, Cuba, in the early 1950s ... Today’s Left faces a substantially different situation from the one Benjamin confronted in 1940, when he wrote his theses on ...

"She studied at the well-known San Alejandro University in Havana. There ... "Our curriculum was created back in the 1940s in Cuba," she says. "I’ve modernized and personalized it to give ...

At this time in the 1940s-50s, there is a great fusion between New York jazz and Havana jazz and a fantastic mixing with Afro-Cuban rhythms. Tono Errando: Bebo has had two lives. The first in Cuba, ...

Intermittent power struggles occupied the Mafia in the 1930s and 1940s. In September 1931 ... gambling casinos in South Florida, New Orleans, Havana and Saratoga, N.Y. During World War II ...

There are approximately 63,000 Latinos living in New Hampshire today, just under 5% of the population. But when we arrived as ...