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Emilio and Gloria Estefan Get Their Due in Musical ‘On Your Feet!’
From the beginning, On Your Feet! is vibrant and full of sound, compelling you to move as the original Miami Sound Machine plays “Rhythm Is Gonna Get You.” Singer Gloria Estefan (played by Ana...
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Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz Are Hypocrites
Marco Rubio, Republican senator from Florida (Michael Vadon/Flickr)After a Syrian passport was found next to the body of one of the perpetrators of last week’s Paris attacks, 27 state governors...
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Immigrants of America, Rubio and Cruz (Don’t) Feel Your Pain
Ted Cruz, Republican senator from Texas (Gage Skidmore/Flickr)During yesterday evening’s Republican presidential debacle in Las Vegas, the party’s bat boy, Marco Rubio, was asked a straight question:...
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Tío Tomás’s Cabin: Marco Rubio and White Cubanidad
Marco Rubio, U.S. senator from Florida (Marc Nozell/Flickr)Last semester I had a young man turn in an assignment in which students were instructed to write to a current presidential candidate. This...
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‘Ruining’ Cuba
Paul Keller/FlickrTomas Bilbao has written an op-ed for HuffPo Latino Voices in which the public affairs consultant gives a glossy explanation as to what people mean when they say they want to “visit...
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The Latinidad of Ted Cruz
On Monday Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas became the first Latino to win the Iowa caucus. (Gage Skidmore/Flickr)Last night Ted Cruz (R-TX) won the GOP Iowa caucus. His win not only changed up the Republican...
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The Black History of Latinos
Illustration by Rafael López, from Margarita Engle’s 2015 book Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl’s Courage Changed MusicThis article was first published by Gozamos.At least twice a day in my reading I come...
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Close Gitmo. All of It.
(Paul Keller/Flickr)This morning President Obama announced that the Pentagon would be submitting a plan to Congress for the long overdue shutdown of the U.S. military detention center at Guantanamo...
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The Deferred Racial Revolution in Cuba
(Thomas Leuthard/Flickr)Former President Fidel Castro’s 1959 revolution was centered on the premise of socialist ideals that mandated equality for all: Everyone would be given the exact same amount of...
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Cuba Through My Lens
Che Memorial in Santa Clara, Cuba. (Photo by Carlos Jiménez Flores)I am currently in Cuba. I have been here over a week on a mission with a group from the United States who are part of a network of...
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Fear and Longing in La Habana
(DonkeyHotey/Flickr)This past week, much of the Cuban-American community felt anxious to hear President Obama’s speeches in Cuba. I think many of us feared that two short speeches on the Castros’ home...
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An Open Letter to Cubans and Cuban-Americans (With Love and Respect)
I’m the granddaughter of Sargent Juan Medina from Consolación del Sur, Cuba, who served under Batista and retired when Castro assumed power. He later joined the MR-15, the contra-revolutionary movement...
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Inside the Heart, Mind and Soul of Daymé Arocena
It’s a little past five o’clock on a Wednesday and New York’s Empire Hotel is a buzz. The atmosphere is not that of a major business conference but one of the usual bustle it houses in the middle of...
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Disciples of Babylon: A Global Band of Latino Rockers
We love rock, period. Latinos have been metálicos since metal and punk took the world on a g-string riff at an 18th beat.However, few are the bands that manage to keep the contagious head-banging beats...
View ArticleReinventing Cuba: A Documentary About the Island’s Creative Class
We came across this documentary this week from CCTV and we wanted to share it with our community. This definitely goes beyond classic cars and cigars, as it focuses on the island’s creative...
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ABRAZO, THE HAVANA SESSIONS: A Musical Bridge Between Cuba and the US
In a quest to warm up the cultural and economic exchange between the United States and Cuba, music producer, composer and activist Bob Lord saw a great opportunity to unite both countries in more than...
View ArticleFrom Al Jazeera English’s THE STREAM: Castro’s Global Legacy (VIDEO)
On Thursday, Al Jazeera English’s THE STREAM discussed the global legacy of Fidel Castro in an episode that covered a wide array of topics, from colonialism to race relations. The guests were James...
View ArticleThree Generations of Cuban Women Speak Out: A Fusion Video
Late last week, Fusion’s Facebook page posted the following video. It asked three Cuban women —a grandmother, a mother and a daughter— how they feel about Cuba’s future now that Fidel Castro has died....
View ArticleVIDEOS: What Trump (and Rubio) Said About the Change in US Cuba Policy
Here videos of the Miami speeches given by Florida senator Marco Rubio and President Trump given on Friday. These two speeches —Vice President Pence also spoke as well a Florida governor Rick Scott,...
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Trump Nods to Cuban Exiles, Rolls Back Ties: Experts React
By Brian Gendreau, University of Florida and William M. LeoGrande, American University A street in Trinidad, Cuba. (CREDIT: José Porras, Wikimedia Commons) Editor’s Note: President Donald Trump...
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