Saving Old Havana
“This is one of the renowndest and strongest places of all the West Indies . . . From hence is transported huge quantity of Tobacco ....
Meeting the Master: Wilfredo Lam
It was a long flight, and there was plenty of time to think about the art of the Caribbean and its place on the international stage. For me...
Inside Cuba
“If you walked into that water now,” a friend of mine said in Havana, “you’d come out dyed blue.” The sea off...
Artists Gather in Cuba
In the United States they have pop culture and Madonna, in the Caribbean we have Fidel and Bob Marley. Several of my friends: born in the...
Hunting for Fidel
I am no great pillar of capitalism. But you see communism? I can’t afford it. One night of socialist fever almost killed my feeble...
Rosa’s Story
In 1994, when I was working in a hospital in Cuba, I got the opportunity to travel to Jamaica. At that time, people in Cuba were trying to...
Sexual Revolution
It was Georges Simenon, creator of Inspector Maigret, who once famously boasted that he had slept with a thousand women. (Later, someone...
Wish you were there
There are many ways to wish your way somewhere. There’s the “I wish I was anywhere but here” wish. With this wish, you really don’t...
