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“Buena Vista Social Club” puts Latin America on the musical theater map.
In the midst of disaster and plague, a graffiti in Guanabacoa reads: “I am Fidel. Thank you for the country you left us.” ...
Dreams are like seeds that germinate silently, in the dark. We don’t know which ones will reach the surface and break into ...
One of the main reasons for the US blockade of Cuba since 1962, was the nationalisation of the sugar industry by the Castro ...
Havana resident Dario Mendez, a 20-year-old engineering student ... you might have to go back," Mendez said. Cuba's deputy foreign minister told Reuters earlier this month that any increase ...
One of the main reasons why so many old models are left on the streets of Cuba is due to an embargo ... show tourists around major cities such as Havana - helped by the country's loosening ...
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Tomas Emilio Hernández Cruz, 71, a former high-ranking official in the Cuban intelligence service, was arrested by Immigration and Customs Protection and the FBI last week in Broward. The ...
(Photo by Matthew Murphy) The titular social club was in the Buenavista quarter of Havana, at its peak in the ... one of the sisters (the one who left Cuba) is dead and the older survivor, Omara ...
This Broadway transfer from the Atlantic Theatre Company is based on the group of great and mostly older Cuban artists recorded on a Grammy Award-winning 1997 studio album in Havana, as produced ...
HAVANA — In a rattan chair with a large oval backrest, almost like a throne, the 94-year-old “Diva” of Buena Vista Social Club, Omara Portuondo, sat in her home in Cuba as she reminisced ...
For the fourth time in half a year, Cuba has been hit by a major power outage, affecting much of the nation, including its capital, Havana. The failure of the National Electric System (SEN) occurred ...