Cuba

At the meeting in the Dominican Republic, the leaders of the 22 countries rejected outside pressure and focused on their immediate problems. — The heads of state and government of the Ibero-American countries: 14 presidents, two vice-presidents, two prime ministers and 22 foreign ministers, as well as about 1500 entrepreneurs from the region, met on March 25, 2023 in Santo Domingo, capital of the Dominican Republic, to discuss the urgent issues of inter-Latin…

To learn a cultural dance is to embody the feeling of a people. The feelings of a culture. Emotions all have physical embodiments. The physical shape forms around the emotional. Clowns excel at exaggerating these shapes, slouching into sadness, leaning forward into anger. “Bodily posture conveys action tendencies associated with…

National elections showed a convincing victory for the socialist project of Liberty Island in competition with those who bet on its destruction. — Today, the most unusual man, a legend of Cuba and the whole revolutionary movement of Latin America, Raúl Castro Ruz became an ordinary Cuban at the age of 91. In the municipality of Segundo Frente, in the province of Santiago de Cuba, he had to “fight for the deputy seat”…

Note: This writing is a reflection on second-generation Cuban-American hybridity from the theoretical perspectives of postcolonialism and hauntology. This is a deeply personal topic for me as a second-generation Cuban-American interested in the aforementioned fields, and I plan to write much more about this and similar topics in the future…

La travesía is a recently available online resource documenting the stories of those who have lost their lives or disappeared on the journey from Cuba to the United States of America. The site memorialises those “who couldn’t complete the journey” — a total of 118 dead and 352 disappeared Cuban…

Hilary Saunders POSTED ON MARCH 14, 2023 ***Enjoy this article? Support No Depression. Help us continue to keep our web content free and accessible to all — without paywalls or invasive pop-up ads. Your support is important because it helps us cover our costs so that we can continue bringing…