CULTURE

“He is not an artist. He’s a witness. It’s a testament to what can make God with your life if you get carried away with Him.” Words of Mother Teresa of Calcutta about Facundo Cabral. […]

As Geovannys Manso begins his novel The Sleepy Children of the Abyss (Editorial Letras Cubanas, 2016) with the certainty: “Today my father has died”, the reader can assume that he will face a backward journey, […]

Chance made me meet in Guadalajara, at the home of my Cuban-Mexican friend Waldo Saavedra, when one of my references in journalism – his reports in Juventud Rebelde marked time when I wrote my first […]

In Cuba it is well known from Frank Padrón (Pinar del Río, 1958): essayist, art critic and cultural promoter. For twenty years Frank has been the host and critical commentator of the television space Cine […]

For someone to decide to write about someone else’s life or their own memories, they need to have two big points in their favor. The first, to possess a successful pen and then to make […]

José María de la Torre says that in 1637 a church and convent was designed that would be dedicated to the Marian advocation of the Merced, redeemer of captives. This one would be built in […]

Historians, critics, theorists and audiences have consented to call “the four classics of Cuban cinema”, a set of feature films that are already half a century old. The Adventures of Juan Quin Quin (1967), Memoirs […]

José Alberto Lezcano (born 1935) is one of Cuba’s least prolific film critics. Founder of the first Cinema Club and the Film Interest Circles of his province, he was considered by Rufo Caballero as the […]

The great difference between opera and ballet does not come down to the predominance of song poetry in the first and the world of body poetry in the second; lies in his own characteristic vision […]

This is understood by Virgilio López Lemus from his early youth and not to fall into the dreaded circle of “they don’t publish you because they don’t know you, and they don’t know you because you don’t publish”