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Entre Disfrutar y Compartir
on Feb 22, 2009 in Language Funny Culture Slightly over a year ago, I was sitting at a restaurant next to a busy, noisy intersection with David, near El Poblado Metro station in Medellín, Colombia. As we were ordering food, I was debating whether or not to get the Bandeja Paisa, a large, gl...
Cubita Coffee in Montreal supermarkets
on Nov 6, 2008 in Food and Drink Although authentic Cubita Coffee has been available online and from certain specialty shops in Canada for a while now, over the past few weeks I’ve been seeing it crop up in pretty much every supermarket that I’ve been to in the Montreal...
EU official in Cuba to renew ties
on Oct 22, 2008 in International Relations Politics via the BBC: European commissioner Louis Michel has arrived in Havana for meetings aimed at a formal resumption of co-operation between the EU and Cuba. The two-day visit is the result of the EU agreeing to remove all sanctions against communist Cuba...
Rafael Correa encouraging Free Software use in Latin America
on Sep 28, 2008 in Latin America Technology (I’m going to start posting more topics that are only tangentially or indirectly related to Cuba. It’s been over a year and a half that I haven’t returned to the island, and therefore don’t feel as qualified to write opinion p...
Faces of Cuba - footage and interviews from The Island
on Mar 18, 2008 in Social Technology Arts I’ve been doing some video work at home for an unrelated project, and came across some footage that I shot just over a year ago in Cuba. I wanted to use it as the beginning of a documentary about Cuba, a sort of question and answer session with...
Faces Of Cuba 3 - Villa Clara
on Mar 18, 2008 in People Videos Social Villa Clara The third and last piece of footage from Faces of Cuba I. This was filmed in Villa Clara (mostly Santa Clara). It’s released into the Public Domain.