
The Pan Am and Parapan Am Games are taking place in Canada’s largest city. This sporting event has athletes from 41 countries throughout the Americas and the Caribbean competing in the city […]
The Pan Am and Parapan Am Games are taking place in Canada’s largest city. This sporting event has athletes from 41 countries throughout the Americas and the Caribbean competing in the city […]
I was in Baracoa when it happened: plans that the US and Cuba would reopen negotiations. The fall of the Soviet Union and the US economic embargo left Cuba’s economy in crisis. […]
…The caged bird sings with a fearful trill of things unknown but longed for still and his tune is heard on the distant hill for the caged bird sings of freedom. Poem […]
Keeping culturally fit in Cuba Salsa is synonymous with Cuba. In fact, music and dance in general are synonymous with Cuba. They are as important to the Cuban people as food and […]
It wasn’t looking good for vegetarians in Cuba. Pork is popular for year-end celebrations, street food often consisted of jamón and/or cheese on white bread and meat is the predominant food group. […]
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it. ~Rudyard Kipling~ My first olfactory impressions of Cuba were that of the faint smell of cigars, remnants of cigarette smoke […]
Where is it? A Caribbean island with Florida 90 miles north, Jamaica to the south, the Atlantic ocean to the east and Caribbean sea surrounding the remaining coast line. What is it? […]