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I’m from Havana
Havana turns five hundred years old and the obvious reason ignites the engine of words and there we go to the remembrance ,invite Antonio López-, with some counting, and even the future, to add in the stew. […]
Month: December 2019
FOLDER
Havana in Lezama: the city in the writer
José Lezama Lima was a Habanero writer. An admirer of streets, neighborhoods and especially the Paseo del Prado area, where he lived, the city is portrayed in the pages of several of his books. […]
FOLDER
A thought that bar the house or the philosophy of Havana
Havana is not just the historic center; she is also this space that makes us suffer; it is the rubbish piled in its corners, the thick sewer, the unpainted walls, is the preacher who no longer sells the hard cold of childhood, but expensive avocados injected with chemicals. […]
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Havana from its symbols
The Cathedral and its square, the Templete, the Plaza de Armas, the Plaza Vieja, the Plaza de San Francisco, the Plaza del Cristo, the Alameda de Paula, and other iconic places of the city constitute the pillars of the identity of the capital of Cuba. […]
FOLDER
Pinareña habanitud
From the fresh and deep prose of the journalist Jesús Arencibia Lorenzo comes this text that best illustrates the complex relationship of a “pinareño guajiro” with the capital of the Republic. […]
FOLDER
Alejo Carpentier and Enrique Núñez Rodríguez
Havana: the vivid Havana portrait from the children’s remembrances of Alejo Carpentier […]
FOLDER
Oh, Havana!
Lázaro Numa Aguila proposes a visual tour of some places that are deeply linked to the history of the capital of Cuba and that are still preserved. […]
SPORT
As I think of the Pessoa River
A denunciation of the forgetfulness and careless volunteers that almost every Cuban could talk about, season this text which is the lament of a local for a lost baseball stadium in Ceiba del Agua, but which may be the story of anyone who loves the land where he was born. […]
CULTURE
Emilio Cueto: explorer in the deep Cubania
Between locks and peripecias, the researcher Emilio Cueto, author of the monumental text La Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre in the soul of the Cuban people, travels through Artemisese lands spreading his knowledge. […]
CULTURE
Health service
Reflections on the documentary The year in which there was no year, by the filmmaker, Fernando Almeida, who invites us to understand the extent to which the application, as a law, of compulsory military service in Cuba is feasible. […]