When enslaved people were shipped to Cuba from Africa, they brought their traditions with them. As a result, Cuban cuisine, music and dance are linked to the Motherland. Cubans are warm and love a ...

From February 24 to 28, Habanos—the official government marketing agency for Cuban cigars—will be hosting the 22nd Habanos Festival, an annual celebration of Cuban cigars that attracts ardent lovers ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Renewed tensions between the U.S. and Cuba aren’t stopping the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts from shining a spotlight on the island’s rich cultural heritage during ...

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As enthusiasts of Latin American cinema prepare for Friday’s start of the sixth annual Havana Film Festival in New York, some Cuban-Americans are denouncing the event as propaganda for the Castro ...

The Ford Cuban Sandwich Festival returns to Central Florida for a 7th year this weekend, celebrating this high point in sandwich innovation and offering a bounty of different takes on the ham, pickle, ...

Two historically unique separate docs make up the recently reissued material shot by Italian journalist Gianni Mina principally in June 1987, when an on-camera interview he scheduled with Fidel Castro ...

Pastor Vega, one of the leading figures in Cuban filmmaking, who was known for such movies as “Portrait of Teresa,” has died. He was 65. The director and screenwriter died Thursday in Havana of ...