After the storm | Perspective
For people of the Caribbean, the start of the annual hurricane season in June is a time of watchfulness, if not anxiety. Hurricanes are a...
Pasito a pasito: Daddy Yankee & Luis Fonsi | Backstory
The Caribbean musical hit of 2017? That’s “Despacito”, the steamy song by Puerto Ricans Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee, which has been breaking records all year. Nazma Muller investigates its runaway success, and explains why “Despacito” has roused controversy for more than its lyrics
A cave with a view | Parting Shot
High above the valley of Puerto Rico’s Rio Grande de Arecibo, a system of caves in the limestone cliffs serves as a home for a colony of...
Santiago de Cuba | Neighbourhood
Streetscape The heart of Santiago de Cuba is the paved Parque Céspedes — more of a plaza than a park. Around it are the cathedral, the...
This old house
One of the treasures of Cuba’s capital is the concentration of historic architecture in Old Havana, reflecting five centuries of evolving...
Who’s your granny?
In the 1950s and 60s, when Marxism was still fashionable, communist newspapers had suitably stirring names: Pravda (“Truth”) in the...
Ponce, Puerto Rico
Streetscape The municipality of Ponce sprawls from the southern coastal plain of Puerto Rico up to the heights of the Cordillera Central,...
CimaVax: revolutionary medicine
When United States President Barack Obama landed on Cuban soil in March this year, the first sitting American leader to do so since 1959,...
