If time between shows is any indication, you may have to wait another 76 years to catch Cuba’s legendary Septeto Nacional on yanqui shores again. The band made its last U.S. appearance at the 1933 World’s Fair in Chicago, where it won a Gold Medal by spreading the Afro-Cuban music…
He has long been a stereotypical Miami character: The elderly exile who never loses hope of going home, who views life as a never-ending quest to topple “El Tirano.”Then there’s his counterpart: The compañero on the island who refuses to give up the revolutionary dream despite the world crumbling around…
When Miami sports agent Juan Ignacio Hernandez Nodar, 51, flew into Miami Friday after spending 13 years in a Cuban jail, he felt a bit like Rip Van Winkle. The small children he had left behind were all grown up and Miami had sprouted a new skyline.Hernandez, who tried to…
It’s a measure of the new exile tolerance that a heralded band from Cuba is headed for Miami, and — at least so far — no one is talking about protests, pain or politics. The Septeto Nacional made its last U.S. appearance at the 1933 World’s Fair in Chicago, where…
Miami-based National Circle of Journalists from Cuba can’t find a recipient for its award
So you had your heart set on that 1959 Buick advertised on Revolico and forgot to write the contact number down? You might have blown your chance.Reuters is reporting that the popular Cuban version of Craigslist — which boasts 1.5 million page views a month — is being blocked. It’s…
For the first time in its 15-year history, the National Circle of Journalists from Cuba did not give out an award recognizing a heroic colleague on the mainland when they commemorated Cuban Journalist Day on October 25.It wasn’t that reporters on the island were no longer risking arrest by stealthily…
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the mysterious disappearance of Camilo Cienfuegos, a Cuban revolutionary who combined the bohemian aura and looks of Jim Morrison (a full decade earlier) with the flowing, catlike moves of Bruce Lee. (He was said to kill the enemy and catch his rifle before it…
