Cuban Stories on The Green Plantain

A reading of Chapter 17 - Florida Snorkeling from the book Now I Swim

13 Elo 202410min

Riverside Love - Part 2 concludes the love story of Marta Anisia Mouriño Faes and René Julio Riquelme Babé, written by their daughter, Marta Mayer.  Amor Riverside - Part2 2 - Concluye la historia de ...

30 Heinä 202414min

I never tire of sharing Cuban love stories and how, despite often coinciding with the challenges of exile, they give us hope, a sense of continuity, and admiration.  This is the love story of Marta An...

16 Heinä 202419min

Manuel Barrio-Costolla's trip to Cuba in 1914 from Santiago de Compostela, Spain, was fraught with uncertainty and danger. Despite his enthusiasm and determination to start a new life, the events of W...

2 Heinä 202413min

Dunia and her husband usually stroll around the Manzanillo glorieta in the evenings, but not tonight when the rainy day gave way to more rain, mugginess, and a suffocating evening.   Dunia y su marido...

18 Kesä 202413min

Vladimir, his father, and his siblings were linked to sugarcane and the sugarcane industry. Their farms were located in the municipality of Veroes, Venezuela, where many farms are dedicated to growing...

4 Kesä 202414min

In this episode we explore Cuba’s folkloric poetry, the Punto Guajiro, through a few verses written by my cousin José Luis Rodríguez Martínez, who lives in Fomento, Cuba. Punto is the poetic voice of ...

30 Touko 202414min

If you could taste the green of the grove of palm trees, the blue of the water, and the breeze on your face as you drive toward El Escambray, tell me. What do you think it would taste like? Would it b...

21 Touko 202412min