CUBAN TRANSITIONS

My friendship with the bus driver, Duniel, began the day I wore my Industriales t-shirt. The Industriales is a Havana-based baseball team that is part of the Cuban National Series, a post-revolutionary amateur Cuban baseball league. He saw my royal blue t-shirt with a large calligraphic “I”, and said a phrase that I would hear […]

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One does not even have to look at the fallout regarding Cuba’s non-presence at this year’s Summit of the Americas to know that it was a total failure. The incident with the Secret Service Agents and women-of-possibly-ill-repute, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s dramatic exit follow the US and Canada’s unwillingness to support in her campaign for […]

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  On August 22nd of this year, 2012, China and Cuba will celebrate the 51st anniversary of their diplomatic ties. These celebrations are very important because Sino-Cuban relations continue being instrumental to Cuba’s socio-economic growth and stability. Cuba was the first Latin American country that established diplomatic ties with the People’s Republic of China on […]

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Part of our tour included a trip to el Cemetario del Cristóbal Colón (also referred to as Colon Cemetery). Our tour guide of the cemetery was an animated Cuban with an interesting English accent who was delighted to take us to various points of interest in the cemetery. As previously commented on, this experience in […]

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