Cuban filmmaker Juan Padrón, creator of the character of Elpidio Valdés and his legendary adventures; of the Vampires in Havana, and of many other animated cartoons that are an inseparable part of the sentimental history of the majority of Cubans alive today, passed away in Havana at the age of 73. For about 20 days … Continue reading Cuba in mourning. Juan Padrón, the creator of Elpidio Valdés, dies