Havana

Our Girl in Havana: A Bohemian Chic Eatery In Cuba

Tyler Wetherall | Posted 05.21.2012

Tyler Wetherall

You don't come to Cuba for the food. Well, you never used to come to Cuba for the food.

Biennial Art Festival Heats Up Cuba

AP | PETER ORSI | Posted 05.11.2012

HAVANA — Giant ants swarm the facade of an aging theater. White-clad, face-painted dancers and circus performers frolic on a central boulevard. ...

Dumpsters Into Clothespins: The Economy of Desperation

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.07.2012

Yoani Sanchez

There are many ways to measure the physical state of a nation and one of them is listing what people loot from public spaces.

An American In Cuba

Tyler Wetherall | Posted 05.03.2012

Tyler Wetherall

A great many flout the ban and travel here illegally, flying to Mexico or Canada from where they can buy a ticket to Cuba. And the chance of getting caught is slim.

'To Capitalism We Will Never Return'

Reuters | Posted 05.02.2012

By Jeff Franks HAVANA, May 1 (Reuters) - A red-tinged sea of Cubans marched through Havana's Revolution Square on Tuesday in a May Day...

Believers and Non-Believers, Sympathizers and Non-Sympathizers

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.01.2012

Yoani Sanchez

May Day once again will be hijacked. The day will end without demands being made of this boss named "the State" to raise salaries, lower the cost of living, or improve working conditions. Instead, every individual who marches will be taken as a faithful "believer" in the Party.

Tribeca 2012 Diary: Una Noche Director Lucy Mulloy

Dan Persons | Posted 04.25.2012

Dan Persons

The drama of three young Cubans taking the not-inconsequential step of escaping their country to the (possibly) welcoming arms of the United States is traced in startling detail in Una Noche.

SOS for Havana's Eastern Beaches

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 04.20.2012

Yoani Sanchez

In the tourist area in front of the Tropicana Hotel, of course, it was impeccably clean with police making the rounds so that no Cuban would "bother" the foreigners. But outside that perimeter of comfort, the setting for natives is a real ecological disaster.

PHOTOS: People To People In Havana, Cuba

Tyler Wetherall | Posted 04.16.2012

Tyler Wetherall

In a country as complex as this, in which tourists have for so long existed in a separate strata to locals, the only way to learn anything about the "real Cuba" is to talk.

The Color of Prosperity

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 04.12.2012

Yoani Sanchez

I love to stumble across these facades and see their occupants looking out from the small balconies. There is something in them, in the paint chosen to cover the walls and in the bell hanging over the door that gives me hope.

PHOTOS: Our Girl In Havana, Cuba

Tyler Wetherall | Posted 04.06.2012

Tyler Wetherall

I arrive to the soundtrack of Charlie Parker's jazz crackling out of a rigged up car stereo punctuated by the syncopated shake, rattle and roll of a beat up old Chevrolet hurtling along beside my taxi.

Signs? Is it the End? Or the Beginning?

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.19.2012

Yoani Sanchez

I wonder: all these signs, these events, are they indications of the end or of the beginning? Are we all going crazy or is it only now that we've arrived at sanity?

Social Contrasts in a Classless Society

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.05.2012

Yoani Sanchez

Like an over-exposed photograph, social contrasts are perceived ever more strongly in Cuban life today, thanks to corruption, private businesses, remittances sent from abroad, or government privileges.

Cuba's Energy Revolution Comes to My Neighborhood... and Then Leaves Again

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 04.30.2012

Yoani Sanchez

It came in a truck, immaculately new, brilliantly useful. It was our electric plant, our own generator, that would run the elevator and the hall lights when the blackouts cast their shadows over our area. We were saved.

WATCH: A Cuban Car With Modern Technology

Jeroen Swolfs | Posted 02.28.2012

Jeroen Swolfs

In Havana, I interviewed Victor, a Cuban taxi driver who showed me his family pride, a 1958 Mercedes with a few very special features such as "air-conditioning."

Cuba's Modern Bourgeoisie: The Jogging Class

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 04.22.2012

Yoani Sanchez

Compared to the rest of Cuba, 5th Avenue stands as a rarity. And not because such urban beauty is scarce on this Island.

And the Winner Is.....

Anthony DePalma | Posted 04.18.2012

Anthony DePalma

Brazil wants to be wanted in the region, and during this trip the president made certain that the Cubans understood that Brazil is willing to help them experiment delicately with capitalism. That, she said, will be Brazil's big contribution to Cuba.

Benedict XVI, A Different Pope, Will Come to a Different Cuba

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 04.13.2012

Yoani Sanchez

The Catholics are preparing their liturgies and their pomp to receive Benedict XVI, while others wonder if his arrival will bring some significant transformation in the political or social situation of the nation.

Movie Review: Chico & Rita

Marshall Fine | Posted 04.11.2012

Marshall Fine

Chico & Rita is like a graphic novel of a romantic drama, set to music that entices and inspires. It's the grown-up choice to win this year's Oscar for animated feature.

An American Girl in Cuba

Lili Boyle | Posted 04.09.2012

Lili Boyle

Wherever we went, the highs and lows of Cuban society were clearly illustrated; we saw the beauty, the poverty, the arts, the decay, the hospitality and the biases.

PHOTOS: How To Travel From The US To Cuba Now

Travelzoo | Posted 04.07.2012

Travelzoo

Trips to Cuba aren't a typical Caribbean beach vacation; there are plenty of vacation deals to the Dominican Republic or Jamaica if that's what you want. The schedules planned by these approved travel companies are busy with cultural activities

At Least Three Dead in Havana as Building Collapses From Decades of Neglect

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 03.20.2012

Yoani Sanchez

What urgent solution will be applied so that these tragedies won't continue to be a part of our daily landscape?

'If I Loved You Before... '

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 03.09.2012

Yoani Sanchez

The market for hair is gaining strength in a nation that oscillates between the imperatives of coquetry and material difficulties.

Guinness World Records Rivalries and the Longest Cigar in the World

Stuart Claxton | Posted 03.06.2012

Stuart Claxton

The art of cigar smoking is almost like a rite of passage. It's like getting your first car, going to your first concert, or having your first beer. It's something you remember for years. And so it should be.

2011 in Cuba, a Year Already Remote

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 03.04.2012

Yoani Sanchez

On Saint Sylvester night few homes displayed parties or music, at least in Havana. But I felt relief that the year was ending. Of 2011, with its advances overstated by propaganda and its setbacks silenced, once was enough.