- Cousin Orly Milián the Magnificent and “Tato” behind the wheel of a state rental car, 2013
Read moreTo the great delight of Cubans living abroad who returned as tourists to visit family on the island, Raúl Castro dismantled several of the state prohibitions on Cuban nationals’ ability to partake or enjoy the country’s tourist facilities and services. ...
- Dr. Reinaldo Funes, of Cuba’s Instituto de Historia, lectures on the paradoxes of Cuba’s agricultural policies after the Cuban Revolution, 2013
Read moreA pioneering scholar of Cuban environmental history, Dr. Funes represented one of several historians who visited UF as a result of a convenio or mutual agreement between the Fundación Antonio Nuñez Jiménez and UF’s Center for Latin American Studies. Here ...
- Trinidad de Cuba, where “sugar was (once) made with blood”
Read moreEstablished in the first two decades after the Spanish arrival in the New World, Trinidad de Cuba is an ancient jewel. Its every facet mirrors both the unimaginable human pain of hundreds of thousands of slaves who were worked to ...
- Entrepreneurial boom in the Age of Obama, 2013
Read moreEnabled for the first time to hire middle men and other intermediaries who in turn increased internal trade on the island, many government licensed entrepreneurs quickly built on their already solid reputation as reliable, top-quality purveyors of services and goods. ...
- Cuban-Chinese Cooperative’s take on Caribbean lobster thermidor, 2014
Read moreCommunist law made the fishing, sale and consumption of lobsters outside of government-owned vessels and venues strictly illegal in the early 1960s. From the 1970s to virtually today, Cuba imports fish (usually juvenile merluza of a type normally used for ...
- Artists Alberto Molina and Samuel Weinstein’s Bed-and-Breakfast, 2011
Read moreLocated on San Miguel Street in Centro Habana, this historic, three-story mansion stands next door to Cuba’s internationally famous pre-1959 music recording studio (known as EGREM after its nationalization in 1961). A couple for more than twenty years, Alberto, a ...