Cuba on the Edge: Short Stories from the Island
If you want to read contemporary Cuban fiction and do not have access to the Spanish original, an increasing number of excellent translations will now allow you to become acquainted with…
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Country: Cuba
A “Revolutionary Process” Unfolds: In the Absence of a Well Defined Plan
What do you think of Hugo Chávez? Are you for or against him? Venezuelans inevitably confront these questions when we travel or meet people unfamiliar with our ideas. Unless one stands at one of the two opposite poles dominating political life in Venezuela during this last decade, it is hard to answer them. A generalized Manichean mind-set tends to push and flatten every position towards the extreme ends and nuanced views …
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In the Shadow of the Winds
The comparisons were inescapable in the aftermath of Katrina. New Orleans as the Third World: displacement and destitution…
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The History of Havana
“This city is the most welcoming place,” begin Dick Cluster and Rafael Hernández, the former a well-regarded novelist and social critic and the latter a Cuban social scientist, poet and editor of…
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Hurricanes, Society, and the Culture of Citizenship
Today’s discussion is on “Hurricanes, Society and the Culture of Citizenship.” In addition to physical destruction and the loss of human lives, hurricanes leave their imprint on nature, society, its way…
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