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Residents walk past dilapidated mansion on Villegas Street in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023. The two-story building, which houses six families, is one of many, once luxurious houses that in recent years have partially collapsed or suffered visible damage. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

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Havana’s once stately homes crumble as their residents live in fear of an imminent collapse
By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ - Associated Press
Wed,10/18/23-11:01PM , 85 Reads
HAVANA (AP) — The house on Villegas Street, in the heart of Old Havana, looks nothing like the stately two-story home it used to be a century ago, with its high ceilings, wrought iron railings, semicircular arches and stairs covered in white marble. Its former elegance is such that local lore says it used to belong to a marquise.
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Elian González poses for a portrait in front of the Capitolio in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, June 27, 2023. Twenty three years after González became the center of a dramatic diplomatic custody battle between Cuba and the United States, the young Cuban is now headed to his country’s congress with hopes of representing his people at a time of record migration and heightened tension between the two seaside neighbors. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

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Cuban boy castaway Elián González becomes a lawmaker
By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ - Associated Press
Thu,06/29/23-11:01PM , 401 Reads
HAVANA (AP) — Elián González has the same big, expressive eyes he did 23 years ago when an international custody battle transformed him into the face of the long-strained relations between Cuba and the United States.
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Marcos Marzo hugs two of his friends who came to say goodbye upon receiving the news that he had obtained a permit to travel to the United States, in Havana, Cuba, Wednesday, Jan 25, 2023. Now in the U.S., his dream is to do a master’s degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and work as an engineer, which he says is his passion. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

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Cubans respond with zeal to new US migration policy
By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ - Associated Press
Sun,02/05/23-10:16AM , 151 Reads
HAVANA (AP) — In barely a week, 25-year-old engineer Marcos Marzo went from riding his small electric motorcycle past the low buildings of Havana’s Vedado district to traveling the mega-highways of Florida, amazed by the towering high-rises and giant supermarkets.
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Cuban singer Pablo Milanes performs during a concert in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday Oct. 6, 2004. Milanés, the Latin Grammy-winning balladeer who helped found Cuba’s “nueva trova” movement and toured the world as a cultural ambassador for Fidel Castro’s revolution, died early Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022, in Spain, where he had been under treatment for blood cancer. He was 79. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)

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Cuban singer-songwriter Pablo Milanés dies at 79
By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ - Associated Press
Mon,11/21/22-11:15PM , 172 Reads
HAVANA (AP) — Pablo Milanés, the Latin Grammy-winning balladeer who helped found Cuba’s “nueva trova” movement and toured the world as a cultural ambassador for Fidel Castro’s revolution, has died in Spain, where he had been under treatment for blood cancer. He was 79.
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