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Cuba – Whereto?

Author(s): Juan Villoro
Subject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: Institutul Cultural Român
Keywords: Cuba - Chinese community; income; poverty; double denomination; boarding school system; sexual tourism; prostitution; Havana; Fidel Castro; Eliseo Diego; Cuba after fall of Berlin Wall; Cristobal Colon cemetery; jineteras

Summary/Abstract: Cuba is called the isle of paradoxes. Opulence and poverty translate in two often divergent but co-existing forms of social, economic and cultural realities. The author compares past and present, memories and actual facts to describe the state of Cuba and its people in the 21st century.

  • Issue Year: 2006
  • Issue No: 59
  • Page Range: 3-12
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Romanian