Under the heading "A symbol of the slave trade joins US and Cuba," the news is out this morning: the schooner Amistad is on its way. The organizers have said that it will first dock in the province of Matanzas, a city known as the Athens of Cuba because of...

When early last summer singer songwriter Juan Esteban Aristizabal aka Juanes put forth his intentions to perform the third of his famous Peace Concerts in Havana, Cuba he was very clear and straightforward that the concert was only to happen if it served the same purpose as his previous endeavors:...

Luis Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch are names that probably don't mean much to the majority of the Huffington Post readers, at least not unless they reside in Miami or Cuba. Alfa 66, Omega 7 and Brothers to the Rescue also may not seem like anything other than a strange...

A little over three months ago, before Juanes the Colombian musician singer-song writer came down to Cuba with the intent of proposing the idea of the second Peace Concert in Havana to the Cuban government, the first thing he did was to pay a visit to Secretary of State Hillary...

If there is one thing Americans have to be very proud of is their wit. The fact that the American sense of humor knows no bounds is indisputably an absolute. And when it comes to politics and irony well there you see marvellous things that simply make you crack up....

Fear not, for this will probably be the final entry on the subject, but I just couldn't resist one last time.

Yesterday at 2:00pm on the button, Olga Tañon of Puerto Rico, Miguel Bosé of Spain, and the Colombian Juanes walked arm in arm to the front of the...

If anyone has checked my bio, I was born in Havana but was raised in Manhattan. This all happened in the mid sixties. During that time, the situation for Cubans in favor of the Cuban Revolution of 1959 was to say the least, testy, and more so for anyone who...

On the afternoon of September 3, 2009, OFAC (Office of Foreign Assets Control) finally published the final rule amending the Cuban Assets Control Regulations, which allows for the implementation of the Presidents; initiative of April 13th to "reach out to the Cuban people." Basically what this means is that the...

One of my favorite plays has to be Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand. The monologues are many but there is one in particular that has been on my mind for the better part of this entire week. Like most of the monologues in the play they have no title...

A major controversy is brewing over what might turn out to be a very worth while cultural if not political event. Singer/songwriter Juanes (neé Juan Esteban Aristizábal Vásquez) is organizing a "peace" concert in Havana as a follow-up to the one he promoted on the border between his native Colombia...