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Tagged With: Cubans

Los Expatriados/The Expatriates

Text: Martin Pei de la Paz Translation: Julie Schwietert Collazo [vease abajo para la version en espanol] * Photo: Giorgio It’s well known that Cuba has lost a large part of its young population to the phenomenon of illegal immigration from the island to the United States or other parts of the world. Many families … Continue reading »

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Spanish Harlem: A Photographic Tour/El Barrio: Un Recorrido Fotografico

Text & Photos: Francisco Collazo [vease abajo para la version en espanol] * Headed north of 96th Street on Manhattan’s East Side you enter the heart of Latin life in New York. Bordered on the east by a river of the same name and by Fifth Avenue on the west side, this neighborhood was originally … Continue reading »

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Soderbergh’s “Che”: A Review & Something More

Text: Julie Schwietert Collazo Che photo: Brayan Collazo Alonso 40 Napoles photo: Francisco Collazo * Fifty years ago, Fidel Castro and his ragtag group of guerrillas rode into Havana triumphant after having provoked dictator Fulgencio Batista to abandon Cuba. Central to the “triumph of the revolution,” as it’s called in Cuba, was Ernesto “Che” Guevara, … Continue reading »

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With 2 Canes & 2 Voting Cards, YES WE CAN!

Text by Francisco Collazo & Julie Schwietert Collazo [vease abajo para la version en espanol] * We live in Queens, the most ethnically and culturally diverse county in the United States. And nowhere is that diversity more clear–or more moving–than at my polling place on election day. Under yellowed portaits of Abraham Lincoln and George … Continue reading »

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Digesting History

It’s purely coincidental that my husband, a Havana-born chef, and I are poring through the Cuban menus in the historical menu collection at the New York Public Library’s Rare Books Division on the same day Fidel Castro tenders his resignation after a 49-year tenure as Cuba’s president. We learned about the historical menu collection months … Continue reading »

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