Music of Cuba

By Lizabel Mónica Visual Artist Nestor Siré has set up an art gallery inside today's most popular Cuban media. El Paquete is a 1 Terabyte size changing database of digital content, mostly pirated, and transferred informally through USB external hard drives. El Paquete is nothing like television, any form of radio, or the Internet. It is a huge media phenomenon run through hand-to-hand distribution and outside of government control. There, Siré has managed to insert an Art Gallery. WHO IS…

their associating with music, and where they are now the group is reassembled to perform in the United States. This film documents Ry Cooder bringing together 10 well known and forgotten Cuban musicians to perform together. The film shoots the journey of these musicians from the run down streets of Havana to the flashy city lights and building in New York. It was produced in order to give us a insight of the musical history of Cuba. It not only allowed us to view Cuba in…

Fidel Castro was a Cuban politician who became Prime Minister of Cuba in 1959 until 1976 when he then became President of Cuba until 2008. Castro was an infamous dictator of Cuba and managed to serve as president for 32 years. Castro has been the influence of many political decisions around the world and he has quite a bit to offer as a leader. Though Fidel Castro’s name alone rings a bell of bad intention, he managed to have a support system that was loyal to him until the end. One question…

the most people during this time, it lead to the general understanding of the American public that the USSR was getting in position to attack America. This made the view very American, as no one wanted to check out why they had moved the missiles to Cuba. The American people during this time were much like students in a classroom. When a teacher is explaining a subject the student expects the teacher to be…

The United States is a nation that is known for its freedom and equality that it provides to its citizens, but yet our sports world doesn’t always reflect our own goals as a nation. Equality and freedom have come a long way in the United States but there are still some issues that are reflected in our sports culture. As a society we predetermine an athletes potential because of factors such as money, race and ethnicity. These factors impacts what sport an athlete has the chance to play and it…

1951, 37). Also, the following is a brief list of revolutions and regime changes that occurred only in the 20th century: Mexico Revolution 1910, Argentinian Coup of 1943, Bolivia, 1952, Guatemalan Revolution 1944 and “counter revolution” of 1954, Cuba, 1959, and Nicaragua 1979. This is merely a snapshot and small sample of the revolutions and regime changes that took place in Latin America during the 20th century. It would take hundreds of pages to…

friend of my family, but I decided to interview a person I met in Cuba. This past spring break I went to Cuba with my friends for vacation, where we stayed at my friend’s grandmother house in a town called Nueva Vedado. In this trip I met Hilda Rodríguez, one of the most strong woman I have ever met. Hilda was born on September 19, 1945 in Varadero, Cuba. Hilda was the third child of Pepe and Carmen. Hilda also has a twin or as in Cuba say an “inagua” called Helda. Although Hilda and her…

Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. It is less then one hundred miles off the coast of Florida between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean. Cuba and the U.S. have had an on again and off again relationship since the Spanish-American War in 1898. Cuba was a colony of Spain since Christopher Columbus claimed it in 1492. Then Cuba with assistance from the U.S. fought for independence in the Spanish-American War. The war was between the United States and Spain for territories…

In the Autobiography of a Slave, Juan Francisco Manzano (1797-1854), a former mulatto slave, captures the unjust and horrific events of Cuban slavery during the nineteenth century. Cuba needed a large slave population to work on the islands various sugar mills and plantations to maintain its economic status. As a child, Manzano avoided the typical life of a slave labor because of the Marchioness Justiz de Santa Ana. She allowed to lead the life of a young intellectual, which caused him to feel…

Small ranchers Samuel Jeremiah Jones of the Circle J ranch and Seth (Hoot) Davis of the Slash D were raised in Louisiana living on adjacent plantations southeast of New Orleans and as young masters they had lived a life of the New Orleans rakes. With slaves to attend to all their needs, they lived a life of pleasure, gambling, drinking, and raising hell. They often visited Madam Bordeaux sporting house of soiled doves, an establishment that only the wealthy gained entry. When they were nine…