“I don’t think it’s necessary to make people who only want to be reunited with their families travel so far, and in these conditions. I’m going to tell you once with my hand in my wallet: we spent around $13,000 on that whole process.”
The 1980s were the heyday of Soviet and Eastern European culture in Cuba.
Starting in the 1970s, a new term appeared in the national idiolect: “institutionalization,” a word with which it was decided to baptize 1977.
The journey from Camagüey to Piedras Negras to reach the southern border of the United States. More than 3,000 km, 21 days.
The micro-fractionalists’ list of objections and criticisms of the guerrilla fighters of the Sierra Maestra were practically the same as those of the Soviet officials.
Faced with the disengagement of the U.S. economy, the Cuban leadership had no choice but to turn to the Soviets.
They say that she asked to be buried with a photo of Martí in which he had written the following dedication on the back: “To Paulina, my black mother.”
During the Spanish-Cuban-American War, Tampa would go down in history for becoming the boarding point for troops to the island.
The Mascotte and the Olivette covered the route between Tampa and Havana for about 25 years. The Olivette was shipwrecked in January 1918 during the cyclone that hit Havana. The Mascotte ended her days as scrap iron.
“Silent Cal” returned to his country pleased with the experience and with everything he learned.
Cubans have always been hospitable and lovers of shows and soap operas. And as courteous as they are emotional, to the point that today they are the only passengers who applaud the pilot when the plane they are traveling on from Miami lands on the Rancho Boyeros runway.
A review of the view on Cuba of the influential American newspaper.
In literature, this identity category has its first expression in the anthology “Los atrevidos” (1988), by Carolina Hospital. This very interesting book collects a sample of the literary work of a group of Cubans who dared to write in English for the first time.
Socialism on a single island? For how long? Could Cuba survive the disappearance of Soviet subsidy?
In the 1960s, the island became a Soviet “beachhead” in the middle of the Caribbean, which was reinforced with the Bay of Pigs invasion and, above all, with the Missile Crisis.
The administrative discourse is marked by three central themes: that of the Republicans, that of the progressive sectors of the Democratic Party and that of the Cubans in exile.
“There are several options that the State knows can be put in place in the shortest possible time.”
It wasn’t just about infrastructure. Movie theaters formed part of Cubans’ daily life and imagination with an unusual force.
It will soon be known whether or not the polls hit the target; whether or not there was a blue or red wave; whether this toxic variant of populism will continue in power or be replaced by a liberal tradition, necessarily renewed.
Since the presidential elections that brought William Clinton to executive power, the use of Spanish has been growing in the race for the White House.
I It’s almost commonplace to affirm that Hispanics/Latinos will become the largest minority voting group in the United States during this year’s election. Indeed, this is a record 32 million people eligible to go to the polls, representing 13.3% of all voters. This figure includes a large number of voters in swing states like Colorado, Nevada, Arizona and Florida. In the latter, Hispanics/Latinos make up nearly a quarter of voters. Well-known actress and presenter Eva Longoria repeated it to those attending a Democratic rally in Kissimmee, Florida, when Biden was campaigning on the important I-94 corridor, which connects Tampa with Orlando and Daytona Beach. “This year, for the first time in history, Hispanics will be the largest minority group of potential voters in the United States, Latino voters will decide the 2020 elections, that is a fact. Not only do I want Trump to be removed from office, I want the Latino community to be the decisive group to remove him.” Biden, for his part, said: “More than any other time, the Hispanic community, Latino community holds in the palm of their hand the destiny of this country. You can decide the direction of this country.” It is, by definition,...
In Miami the religious schism between Cubans and traditionalists is a fact. The Cubans practice the Regla de Ocha or Santeria, a typically Cuban product resulting from the agonizing struggle between domination and resistance, and from transculturation. The traditionalists follow the African original—and more properly, the Yoruba culture and religious practices—taken as a launching pad. Getting ahead of myself, Cuba vs. Nigeria. This sort of journey to the seed of the latter is, among other things, a consequence of globalization and the diaspora. But it has also had an impact on the island, until recently considered the marrow of Santeria and “an authentic exporter of this culture in the world.” Cuba is not a crystal bell, nor is it exhausted in those images of old cars and indigenous and decontaminated musical sounds that seem inscribed in stone in the common Western imagination. However, in religion, as in politics, what’s real is what isn’t seen. The obturator of the problem consists, basically, in the following: the former want to maintain the “purity” of the Regla de Ocha, as taught by their elders on the island; hence their reluctance to accept modes, rituals and practices they consider alien to its “essence.” The...
Help us keep OnCuba alive here The Declaration of Independence is a document produced by the second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. It proclaimed that the Thirteen Colonies, at war with Great Britain, recognized themselves as thirteen new sovereign and independent states, free of ties of subordination to the Metropolis. In short, it established the existence of a new nation ever since called the United States of America. Written by Thomas Jefferson, the text gave that independence philosophical-political substance, listing the claims against King George III and establishing the validity of certain individual and legal rights: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Thomas Jefferson in 1786. Painting by Mather Brown (1761 -1833). Photo: Archive. That independence had profound impacts on Latin America, including Cuba. In fact, it was one of the referents, along with the French Revolution, of the patriots who launched the war against Spain in 1868. And also of José Martí, the soul of the Great War, in the midst of critical thinking about the United States whose...
“The discovery of Cuban music almost made me lose my mind...,” wrote actor Marlon Brando in his Memoirs.
It would be commonplace to affirm that the racial question has historically been one of Cuban culture’s tough problems. The subject, of increasing importance as of the 19th century, has gone through different stages vis à vis the very complex process of construction of national identity. One of its correlates, racism, systematized prejudices forged from the perspective of a hegemonic white culture, which early on anathematized black individuals and practiced the exclusion of African slaves and their descendants from the national project, as evinced in the thought José Antonio Saco, one of the most controversial figures in our sugar aristocracy. The Cuban case, however, has a kind of historical irony: the wars of independence would be the foundation of the nation, which inevitably meant the incorporation and participation of blacks, a distinctive feature of Cuban anti-colonial emancipation with respect, for example, to that of the Thirteen Colonies. In the process of constructing national identity, the 1895 War, organized from exile by José Martí, was particularly relevant, and it was led by popular sectors. Mambí liberation fighters, 1895. Photo: Archive. Despite the very high presence of black and mestizo fighters in the Liberation Army, and of Martí’s anti-racist thought to cement...
