Changes for the traditions and for Protestantism were effected in the decade of 1984 to 1994 as the socialist government initiated official sanction for believers participation in state affairs. President Fidel Ruiz Castro attendance at a 1984 Havana worship honoring Martin Luther King Jr. was the ...
In 1959, Miami journalist and aspiring writer Ed Myers travels to Havana to meet his idol Ernest Hemingway. An unexpected friendship develops as the legendary author mentors young Myers in deep-sea fishing, drinking — and finding his literary voice — w
They had been able to control the Cuban government by controlling the successive presidents, since the Spanish-American War early in the 20th Century. The rise of Castro was undertaken with a distinct anti-American flavor to it. Castro was able to expand his popularity by fusing the anti-...
The United States built the Panama Canal early in the 20th century with American sweat, toil, and money, only to give it away to a left-wing Panamanian dictator via a dubious treaty. The Panamanians, in turn, ceded the Canal to Hutchison Whampoa, a front Chinese company that was owned ...
Top Places To Visit In Cuba Cubatransgresses the boundaries of time, spanning six decades simultaneously. In Old Havana take in the mid-century ambiance of the UNESCO World Heritage Site combined with its Spanish colonial architecture. Hail a classic American car, and whisk along the Malecón wi...
Cuban music is the source of much Latin music in the 20th century. Salsa, the all-encompassing Latin music that came out of New York in the 1970s, and soon spread across Colombia, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and elsewhere, owes all of its success to the Cuban music ...
have been burned. One can only to stick to the plan of looting every last man and the last dime, while Cubans, like men in Plato's cave, observe shadows on stones and believe that this is reality, that to live in chains is to live, and that without chains there is no life ...
During Cuba’s struggles for independence from Spain in the 19th century, injured soldiers would ask the virgin to be healed and would sew her image on their uniforms. Article content In the early 20th century, war veterans petitioned the Vatican to name her Cuba’s ...
In the early 20th century, Cuban artists began to embrace European modernism and the avant-garde artistic movement began to take off, as much of the art from this time period seen in Cuba’s museum tours reflects. During this period, Cuba saw the creation of famous works such as1938’s ...
Santos Suárez is a suburb in Cerro, La Habana Province and has about 29,600 residents. Mapcarta, the open map.