Long before the first Covid cases were reported in Cuba, the Cuban government was working closely with scientists, experts, and doctors to prepare for the worst. Photo by Cynthia Carris Alonso (Note from El Equipo: As of December 17, there have been 9,671 Covid-19 cases in Cuba, and 137 deaths.) There are no real shockers […]
Plus the Guardian calls out DeSantis, saying, “Hey, try and send Cuban migrants to Martha’s Vineyard and watch what happens, Gov.” El Bocadito: So now it makes sense. In reading a post from everybody’s favorite independent independent(ish) media outlet in Cuba, we learned about the strengths of Cuba’s new LGBTQ+ friendly family code being voted […]
Americans who want to travel legally to Cuba will have more options after the Biden administration announced it was undoing some of the restrictions President Donald Trump imposed before the pandemic. The Biden administration is starting to make policy changes, including allowing flights to resume to destinations in Cuba other than Havana. This is the […]
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Quiara Alegría Hudes’ My Broken Language is a journey of self-exploration, belonging and personal identiy. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Quiara Alegría Hudes. Photo: quiara.com I first heard about My Broken Language, published in April of this year, while listening to NPR in the car with my dad on the way home from some jaunt […]
Two months after starting the popular instagram account, Alejandro Bujan says he’s still in shock from the avalanche that has come his way. Cuba Says creator Alejandro Bujan is still in shock by the rapid growth of his social media presence. Photo: Alejandro Bujan On October 1st, a poster with a red background and white […]
When parts aren’t available, they create them. They invent them. No matter what, these cars run and in Cuba a car is never totaled. Photo: Michael Freas Engineers, doctors and economists are leaving their professions to drive taxis. After spending years training for their professions, these cuentapropistas (entrepreneurs) are becoming drivers because they make more […]
Meet the world’s smallest bird and come face-to-face with the Cuban crocodile that can leap up to 6 feet in the air. A rock lizard. Cuba is a nature lover’s wonderland. The biodiversity is as diverse as the Cubans themselves. On this beautiful island, the largest in the Caribbean, you can meet the world’s smallest […]
Steffi Audrelia uncovers a personal history of Chinese migration to Cuba at the Casa Ajión in Trinidad. Steffi discovers shared Chinese roots in Trinidad. Photo courtesy of the author. Somehow, I ended up at the home of “el chino cubano,” one of the few Chinese Cubans in Trinidad. Inside his casa particular, I found the […]
Curator Elizabeth Goizueta talks to Startup Cuba about Mariano Rodriguez’s multi-decade exhibit at the McMullen Art Museum in Boston and soon the PAMM in Miami. Elizabeth Goizueta is the Curator of Mariano: Variations on a Theme | Variaciones sobre un tema at the McMullen Museum of Art in Boston and the Pérez Art Museum Miami […]
Journalist Luis Orlando León Carpio writes about how COVID-19 has altered the scene in Trinidad, Cuba, after the tourists were kicked out and the calor humano is in isolation. Photo credit: Luis Orlando León Carpio It was hard to imagine the city of Trinidad asleep in the middle of March. The news about the Coronavirus […]
Photographer Alain Gutierrez captured this image titled “Fairy Dust” in Santiago de Cuba. Polvo de hadas–“Fairy dust,” Santiago de Cuba, 2013 Photo: Alain Gutierrez For October we chose this photo by photographerAlain Gutierrez because of our love of street photography in Cuba. On the calle Enramadas in Santiago de Cuba, a group of girls buy […]
Independent and unaffiliated, Startup Cuba exists to amplify the community of voices in the Latinx space throughout the US. Through a mix of video, photography and written content we tell stories that bring us closer together.
Independent and unaffiliated, Startup Cuba exists to amplify the community of voices in the Latinx space throughout the US. Through a mix of video, photography and written content we tell stories that bring us closer together.
Independent and unaffiliated, Startup Cuba exists to amplify the community of voices in the Latinx space throughout the US. Through a mix of video, photography and written content we tell stories that bring us closer together.
