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The Trinidad Sunday Afternoon, and What Tourism Has and Has Not Changed

Trinidad is the most visited small city in Cuba and the one most often described as a museum. I spent three Sundays…

My mother calls her sister in Havana every Sunday at six in the evening Miami time. I have listened to a thousand…

I spent a week in Santiago de Cuba in March. The eastern capital is its own city, with its own music, its…

The Cuban ballet diaspora is one of the great underwritten cultural exports of the past forty years. Some of the dancers came…

I left Havana in early 2018. I am writing this in May 2026 after a three-week trip. Eight years is too long.…

The Special Period is the hardest decade in recent Cuban memory and the decade Cuban cinema spent fifteen years trying to render…

I was in the back of an almendrón last August when the driver put on a reggaeton track I had never heard…

The food guides do not mention Mireya's. The paladar has been operating out of her front room for fourteen years. The menu…

The camello is mostly gone now, replaced by the regular guaguas and the shared taxis and the small yellow vans. But when…