Lydia Cabrera and the Dark Rebellions

Lydia Cabrera was part of the Africanist movement almost since its origins, and true to the excitement she felt upon reading Césaire, she translated and studied Antillean blackness and Yoruba...

Between The Devil and The Deep Blue Sea: 1990-1991

I It starts with the suspension of the Cold War, and Cubans at the center of the conflict. It starts with the ageing New...

José Manuel Mesías: “Is the erection of a scarecrow...

José Manuel Mesías was born in Havana in 1990. He graduated from the National Academy of Fine...

‘Red Cockroaches’: Twenty years after Miguel Coyula’s Classic Film

What Miguel Coyula did for independent Cuban cinema has yet to be fully understood. Perhaps that’s why...

An Amnesty Law for Cuban Political Prisoners, is It...

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In this exclusive interview with Ted Henken, New York graphic artist, blogger, and one-time habanera Anna Veltfort...

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The filmmaker Luis Alejandro Yero talks about the censorship...

There is a moment in this interview where I tell Luis Alejandro Yero (1989) that Cuban censorship...

“Memories of Underdevelopment”: a photographic series from today’s Cuba

Certainly, “Memories of Underdevelopment” is a series inspired by the novel and film of the same name,...