Leon Padura: Cuba has hit rock bottom
“It’s like another crest of a long crisis.… We’ve hit rock bottom and the worst thing is that, if at other times there was still some hope that things were going to improve, I believe that what is most lacking…
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Why the hell haven’t we ended the Cuba Embargo?
Cuban people are suffering under pointless, ineffective U.S. sanctions. It’s well past time to end this six-decade-old Cold War battle. Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty 14 November 2022 | Ben Burgis | Havana Live The UN General Assembly just voted for the…
Obituary: José Luis Cortés – Cuban Bandleader (90) (2022)
His music, Timba, was ‘fast, loud, and characterized by its multiple overlapping rhythms and deep booming bass lines’ Photo: José Luis Cortés leading the band NG La Banda at Lincoln Center in New York in 1997. His performance, one reviewer…
Op-Ed: JFK’s economic embargo is still making Cubans go hungry
Sixty years on, the country fighting to ‘save’ Ukraine is still punishing Castro on a daily basis Photo: Cuban Flag 23 March 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Media News Op-Ed: JFK’s economic embargo is still making Cubans go hungry 23…
Clipper Music: Harold López-Nussa
Cuban jazz pianist Harold López-Nussa performs live at WGBH’s Fraser performance studio in Boston with his brother, Ruy López-Nussa 19 February 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Music Clipper Media : Music Video of the Day # December 4, 2017…
Watch: The sights, sounds and music of Santiago de Cuba
21 December 2021 | James Porteous | Clipper Media Yes, dear friends, as you will see here, Cuba is an actual country with actual happy people who live their lives (sometimes with difficulty) but othewise cherish and retain their unique…
Is the US organizing a ‘spontaneous,’ colour revolution in Cuba on 15 November 2021?
“The U.S. shares the vision of the Cuban people: democracy, prosperity, and human rights…” 01 November 2021 | Alan Macleod | Mint Press News HAVANA — The United States government is playing a key role in organizing, promoting and amplifying upcoming…
Mexican President asserts his country’s right to send fuel to Cuba
Photo: Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador delivers a speech. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has criticized the U.S. embargo against Cuba, calling it ‘inhumane.’ 27 July 2021 | Staff | Reuters MEXICO CITY, July 27 (Reuters) – Mexico’s…
Is U.S. State Department still waiting for Cuba’s ‘Stockholm Syndrome’ moment?
Photo: Cuban Americans demonstrate outside the White House in support of demonstrations taking place in Cuba on July 12, 2021 in Washington, DC.Win McNamee | Getty Images “We are always considering options available to us that would allow us to…
Cuba’s ‘tobacco factory readers’ are a unique part of Cuba’s culture
Photo: Odalys de la Caridad Lara Reyes entertains employees by reading to them as they work making cigars at the La Corona Tobacco factory in Havana.(Ismael Francisco / Associated Press) 02 July 2021 | ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ | AP via Los Angleles…
US votes against UNGA resolution to end economic embargo on Cuba for 29th time
Photo: A 2015 photo shows the US embassy in Havana. Photograph: Yamil Lage/AFP/Getty Images 23 June 2021 | Michelle Nichols | Reuters NEW YORK, June 23 (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration on Wednesday continued Washington’s tradition of voting against…
The Bay of Pigs – 17 Apr 1961
Sixty years after the Bay of Pigs invasion – the failed attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro’s regime in Cuba – the island continues to celebrate its victory while the invaders who survived live on in the US with the satisfaction…
