Culture, Arts, Festivals and Events, Cuba
By Christopher Cozier ● Issue 11 (Autumn 1994)
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...
By Nazma Muller ● Issue 17 (January/February 1996)
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...
Culture, Literature, Lifestyle, People, Cuba
By Judith Laird ● Issue 30 (March/April 1998)
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...
Culture, Literature, Arts, Cuba
By James Ferguson ● Issue 63 (September/October 2003)
Sexual Revolution
It was Georges Simenon, creator of Inspector Maigret, who once famously boasted that he had slept with a thousand women. (Later, someone...
Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic
By Michele Agostini ● Issue 64 (November/December 2003)
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...