On April 5, Cuban American musical artist and Grammy Award winner Willy Chirino turned 77. Throughout his long and remarkable musical career, Willy has been a favorite of Cuban Americans for decades, capturing both our happiness living in freedom and the angst communism has brought upon our people. Most of us grew up listening to
A worldwide campaign calling for democracy in communist Cuba will be launched on Tuesday, featuring Cuban activists and artists, to call attention to the struggle for freedom on the island. Organized by the Assembly of Cuban Resistance, the campaign named "Unity and Freedom" will focus not only on eradicating communism in Cuba, but all over
Mauricio Fernando Castro’s Only a Few Blocks to Cuba: Cold War Refugee Policy, the Cuban Diaspora, and the Transformations of Miami will be published by the University of Pennsylvania Press (Penn Press) in February 2024. Description: In Only a Few Blocks to Cuba, Mauricio Castro shows how the U.S. government came to view Cuban migration to…