Enrique Pineda Barnet: 25 years outside the Festival
Twenty-five years is a lifetime; my life minus one year. A quarter century without Decembers. All the time Enrique Pineda...
Benicio del Toro, from Che to Pablo Escobar
Former basketball player, ex painter, visceral artist, the renowned Puerto Rican actor Benicio del Toro left the skin when performing...
Conner Gorry: “Cubans are awesome; flowers come out of their mouths”
Many Cubans have called Conner Gorry crazy, because in 2002 she left New York and came to live in Havana,...
Gutiérrez Aragón, the filmmaker who left a rose from France in Havana
Renowned and winner of several awards Spanish filmmaker Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón is in Havana as unpublished script jury at the...
Buena Fe in Concert
Buena Fe duo devoted last Saturday its concert ¨Una luz por la esperanza¨ (A light of hope) to the Cuban...
Who makes the Coral statutes of the Havana Film Festival?
Now comes the hour of the Corals. Within a few days the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema will...
Keep on reading: The scriptwriter and his fear
It has been said many times that the script is not literature, that when Scott Fitzgerald wanted to make literature...
HIV
The problem with HIV is that you always think that you won’t be infected. Thinking that another one is going...
Just leave us alone
With the visit to Cuba of Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo, the Popular Party (PP) finishes a 180 degrees...
Keep on reading: A vague smell of blood
It was a few weeks ago, in a Champions League match (the soccer issue seems a curse again). Commentators, the...
“We, Basque entrepreneurs, want to participate in the development of Cuba”
Sosin Eileen Martinez "If we are mention that several companies have more than 30 years working in this market, it...
Inside the skin: “I live surrounded by Cubans”
Rolando Diaz is a man of islands. He is a man of roads. He is a man of cinema. In...
Cuba and the European Union closer in trade
In 2013, transactions with the European Union-and the continent in general accounted for 28.3 percent of Cuba's foreign trade. This...
Professor Esteban Morales and the Cuba-US relations
Professor Esteban Morales is one of the most respected researchers in the field of US-Cuba relations. He has just published...
History of the large earthenware jars
They say that the traveler who drinks water from a Camagüey tinajón (large earthenware jar) stays to live on that...
JoJazz 2014 Awardees
The "Pianos JoJazz" concert, starring musicians Alejandro Falcon, Alejandro and Jorge Aragon Meroño closed the eighteenth edition of the contest...
People: When the 1990s entered her doctor´s office
Asthma was squeezing his lungs, but the doctor could not see his bluish face. Rather, the wan light of the...
The press and the lessons of History
Maintaining control over all of the media and having the power to decide who manages these and what gets published...
Cuba Posible: thinking about the future of the island (II)
In the first installment of the interview with OnCuba Roberto Veiga and Lenier Gonzalez presented the new project Cuba Posible,...
The Cuban peso is 100 years old
The Cuban peso was "born" legally on November 7, 1914, with the publication in the Official Gazette a law signed...
Julio Bocca is entirely devoted to his work
One of the stars of dance, the Argentine Julio Bocca, fulfilled his promise to return to Cuba and if previously...
Spanish businessmen seek for greater investments in Cuba
With 132 companies, Spain is the country with the largest presence in the International Trade Fair of Havana. Currently there...
Cuba´s Juan
“Aunty, I’m at Casa de la Música. They stopped the concert. Elito (Revé) said that Formell has died. The...
Chronicles of Los Van Van
When Juan Formell died, Cuba no doubt lost the greatest musical narrator of everyday life on this island in the...
Samuelito Formell… Juan’s son
There is no musician in Cuba today who is under more pressure than Samuelito Formell…. The reasons are obvious: on...
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