@ftweekend.com just published my account of a recent trip across #Cuba, during the US oil blockade, to attend a monthly get together of Guantánamo’s ‘Don Cornelius’ soul club.
More here: ft.trib.al/vSg3hog
Two years ago today, in Guantánamo city, I was surprised to be invited by friends to a soul music night. In a country where many forms of English-language and other ‘imperialist’ (Beatles, Rolling Stones, Julio Iglesias, Michael Jackson) artists were once banned.
Going ape for this, my first piece for Gatopardo, long one of my favourite mags: re heiress Rosalía Abreu’s Monkey Mansion in Havana, eugenics and Soviet attempts in 1920s to create a chimp-human hybrid - gatopardo.com/revista/los-...
From eastern Cuba my report for @economist.com
Reviewed two Cuban books @thetls.bsky.social, just as the country faces (even) worse times ahead - @igpublishing.bsky.social / @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
www.the-tls.com/history/the-...
130 monos estuvieron alguna vez, durante la primera mitad del siglo XX, bajo el manto protector de una mujer extraordinaria: Rosalía Abreu.
In July 2021, mass protests rocked Cuba in a spontaneous show of discontent that saw thousands take to the streets on a scale unmatched since the 1950s.
