The island, the icebergs
Like a dystopian novel unfolding in installments, Cubans discover each day how the current restrictions are taking over their lives. Thinking about tomorrow becomes a bad joke.
Like a dystopian novel unfolding in installments, Cubans discover each day how the current restrictions are taking over their lives. Thinking about tomorrow becomes a bad joke.
A daughter followed her father’s traces and found in the game of baseball a living bridge between the past, present and future of two nations at odds due to politics.
The founder of the Cuba Foundation conceived an entity to boost the island’s private sector, supporting sports, cultural and educational projects. “Being able to help Cuba in some way” is his great dream, one that is put to the test by bureaucrats and obstacles.
The Church’s social doctrine is tested every day, but in these terrible days after Melissa, even more so.
The famous singer-songwriter underwent an ancestral genetic traceability study and joined the protagonists of the series “Ruta ADN Cuba” in its first season.
A collective project, led by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation, rehabilitates the intersection of Avenida Italia and Malecón under a management model that transformed the space and its protagonists.
With “Camerata en guaguancó” (1983), he put a tailcoat on the rumba and that single piece, a work of transcultural engineering and endocrine savoir-faire, would be enough to place him in the island’s most relentless musical anthology.
The state isn’t the only one holding the key to the expansion of photovoltaic energy. To a lesser extent, private enterprise is also opening its doors of opportunity with companies like Captura Aid and Trade.
The parish priest of Havana Cathedral, one of the most experienced academic and pastoral voices in the Catholic community on the island, offers his exclusive view on the pontificate of Jorge Mario Bergoglio (2013-2025).
In a country gripped by stress, poverty and uncertainty, acquiring tools that foster mental peace is no longer a sectarian fad but a practice for many.
The crisis is destroying a society’s domestic rituals, disrupting the consumption traditions that forged an identity’s background for centuries.
In nearly forty years, Cuba has reduced its rice production by 19 times. With a basic food basket on the verge of extinction, the noose of food insecurity is shrinking.
OnCubaNews, its OnCuba Business division, together with the British Embassy in Havana, for the first time presented this award, which seeks to promote the entrepreneurial spirit and creativity associated with business in Cuba.
She tried it during the Cold War and she succeeded in the post-Cold War: she swam across the Straits of Florida to join two shores that are still distant and tense due to the waves of politics.
A cute Havana hotel joins the 16th Biennial with works that range from subtle obviousness to intricate allegories inlaid with semi-precious stones.
The country’s highest immigration authority offers statements to OnCuba regarding controversial issues of the draft law that will soon be submitted to the National Assembly.
Pierre Jean González and Cedric Leiba Jr. got Broadway eating out of their hands because they have plenty of inventiveness to confront the stratification of U.S. capitalism when it comes to gays, Latinos, blacks and the poor.
Two documentaries reposition the subject of the embargo from the northern shore of the historical dispute that, with its own genetics, precedes and survives the Cold War.
Jorge Perugorría intends to turn Isla de la Juventud into his best work outside the sets: an ecological laboratory in the insular Caribbean.
A gallery of national artists and press reports make up an intergenerational visuality about the most recurring and spectacular natural cataclysm that hits the island.
Will one of Cuba’s most splendid dancers end his stage career sitting behind a desk? Apparently neither one nor the other will happen.
Although his name does not appear in culture headlines, Cuba owes him some front-page events. Resurrecting Chano Pozo in one of his Havana ecosystems is the most recent of such episodes.
In an epiphany in installments, Hanny Valenciaga discovers that her fondness for dolls pays off with a childhood short on toys.
Long before and after the embargo, in the 1960s, Cuba has not stopped exporting two very valuable assets to the United States: baseball players and jazz musicians.
Nicolás Guillén Landrián, the “enfant terrible” of Cuban documentary filmmaking, will have a second resurrection with a retrospective of his work, debates that smack of controversy, and audiovisual material from one of his rescuers.
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