Search Result for: cuban revolution
21 results found.
Two Cuban Artists Launch First Major US Exhibition in Miami
Above: “Solve et Coagula”, 2012, by Jose Toirac and Meira Marerro By the Caribbean Journal staff MIAMI — Jose Toirac and Meira Marrero, a team of artists from Havana, have launched their first major solo exhibition in a United States […]
Breaking: Fidel Castro Is Dead
The Cuba Journal is reporting that Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz, born August 13, 1926, has died on November 25, 2016. Castro was a Cuban politician and revolutionary who governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 followed […]
Cuba’s Fidel Castro Meets With Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro
Above: the meeting between Castro and Maduro (Photo: GC) By the Caribbean Journal staff Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro met with former Cuban leader Fidel Casro this weekend during Cuba’s ceremonies to mark the 60th anniversary of the beginning of the […]
Venezuela’s Maduro, St Vincent’s Gonsalves Head to Cuba
Above: Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro By the Caribbean Journal staff Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro and St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves arrived in Cuba Thursday for a brief visit. Dominica Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit and St […]
Op-Ed: Is Cuba Really Changing?
By Andy Gomez Op-Ed Contributor We recently witnessed what we had not heard one of the Castro brothers say in almost 54 years: Come 2018, neither one of them will be in power. Raúl Castro announced to the Cuban National […]
Marcia Forbes: Branding Cuba
By Marcia Forbes, PhD CJ Contributor A Country in Transition I first visited Havana, Cuba at the end of the 1980s. It was a country in transition, with the “Cold War’” beginning to thaw. That “war,” driven by mighty rhetoric, […]
The 2021 Caribbean Journal Holiday Gift Guide
No matter what holiday you celebrate, there’s no better gift than the gift of the Caribbean. And we have you covered with the latest edition of the Caribbean Journal Holiday Gift Guide. We’ve curated our favorites for the 2021 season, […]
In St Barth, Finding The Rhythm of Caribbean Rum
My journey started with the thrill of the prop plane nosing down for a “bombs away” landing at the Gustaf III airport runway, one of the shortest in the world, as the landing gear of the Tradewind Aviation plane hammered […]
The Caribbean Travel Holiday Gift Guide 2017
If you subscribe to Caribbean Journal, you love traveling to the Caribbean. And so do your friends and family. So what do you get for your fellow Caribbean travel aficionados? We have you covered with the 2018 edition of the […]
Here’s How U.S. Law Applies To Any Company Doing Business In Cuba
By some estimates, when Cuba transitions to a market-oriented economy and resolves its various disputes with the U.S., the island nation will require more than $50 billion of investment to modernize its economy. Recent improvements in U.S.-Cuba relations have opened […]
Europe’s Leading Small Ship Cultural Cruise Company Launches In Cuba
One little known fact about Cuba that is easily overlooked until you visit the island nation is the virtual absence of modern commercial advertising. In fact, Havana is one of the few remaining major cities in the world where garish […]
A Caribbean Wax Museum
Usain Bolt is, uncharacteristically, standing perfectly still. Marcus Garvey sits at a desk while Fidel Castro, dressed in head-to-toe army green, looks over his shoulder. Around the corner, Richard Branson’s dressed in a pirate outfit, and upstairs, Jennifer Lopez and […]
Belize Has Big Internet Plans
Local IXP Seen as the Launch Pad for Developing Local Technical Capacity in Belize By Gerard Best CJ Contributor HAVANA —Errol Cattouse is a man on a mission. He’s the Chief Operating Officer of Centaur Cable and the newly appointed […]
From Haiti to Cuba, One CEO’s Big Plans For Caribbean Aviation
By Simons Chase Cuba Journal HAITI — On a bright February morning amid a mild westerly breeze, a newly painted plane sticks out like a fresh blade of grass as it parks and prepares to load passengers on the tarmac […]
Antigua and Barbuda Has a New Ambassador to Cuba
Above: new Ambassador Peter Benjamin places a wreath at the Jose Marti monument By the Caribbean Journal staff Antigua and Barbuda has as new ambassador to Cuba The twin-island country has appointed Peter Benjamin, who presented his letters of credence […]
The Caribbean and Cuba
By Michael W Edghill CJ Contributor At the end of 2014, Havana welcomed the regional Heads of State a December when it hosted the 5th Caricom-Cuba Summit. From first appearances, this summit did not disappoint as it offered an opportunity […]
Hemingway in Cuba
By Charles Bane, Jr CJ Contributor FROM THE moment Ernest Hemingway saw Finca Vigia ( Lookout Farm) outside Havana in 1939, it became his home in the deepest sense. The southern location, warm year round, gave him ease; evidence now […]
Op-Ed: My Lost Cuba
By Celso Gonzalez-Falla Op-Ed Contributor OVER THE YEARS I have read many books about today’s Cuba and the Cuba before Fidel Castro. Some lacked accuracy, invented events, or seemed to give a distorted picture. In 1960, I was in the […]
Op-Ed: CELAC and the United States
By David Rowe Op-Ed Contributor CELAC, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, is the newest addition to the alphabet soup of Caribbean multi-national organizations. The organization, formed in 2010, has 33 member states, including 16 from the greater […]
Cuba’s Forgotten Art Schools
This article originally appeared in Untapped Cities. By Albert José-Antonio López Twelve years have passed since Princeton Architectural Press first published John Loomis’s Revolution of Forms: Cuba’s Forgotten Art Schools. In the time that has passed since its humble introduction to the […]
At New York’s El Museo del Barrio, Caribbean Art in the Spotlight
Above: Prefete Duffaut, Habour/Vue de Jacmel avec le Pont de Noel, 1968, oil on canvas (Photo by Jason Mandella) By Alexander Britell Beginning Jun. 12, New York’s El Museo del Barrio will put Caribbean art in the spotlight, with Caribbean: […]
SUBSCRIBE!
Sign up for Caribbean Journal's free newsletter for a daily dose of beaches, hotels, rum and the best Caribbean travel information on the net.
