The Old Man and the Sea – from Cuba with love
Ernest Hemingway is the kind of writer you either love or loathe. His macho persona and trademark terse, journalistic style alienate many...
Massacre River of blood
The placid Massacre River (or Río Massacre) seems to belie its ominous name. Running in wide shallow bends and occasional faster-flowing...
Loretta Collins Klobah: “I want to write poetry that is alive”
Perhaps I should start with the bomba. When a bomba dancer in Puerto Rico enters the dance floor, she advances to face the drummer, whom...
Do the Cubans do reggae?
A gritty port town with an oil refinery in its otherwise picturesque bay, Santiago is Cuba’s second largest city. It was once the main...
When Cuba flew the Union Jack
It’s hard to avoid the British in Cuba these days. As tourism booms, hundreds of thousands of Brits are descending on the island each...
A day in Little Havana
If Los Angeles is the city of angels then Miami is the city of refuge and dreams, a haven for those fleeing South America or the Caribbean,...
Rafael Trujillo: boss of a banana republic
It might seem hard to believe these days, but 50 years ago the Caribbean was one of the United States’ biggest foreign-policy headaches....
Fidel Castro: score one to the maximum leader
The history of Cuban-American relations since Fidel Castro’s revolutionary forces seized power on New Year’s Day, 1959, has been a...
