Cuban Stories on The Green Plantain

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 Jul 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 Jul 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 Jun 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 Jun 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 Mai 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 Mai 202412min

Here is a comical anecdote about finding a compatriot and amenable conversation about croquetas. He aquí una anécdota cómica sobre la búsqueda de un compatriota y una conversación amena sobre las croq...

7 Mai 20249min

It was April 17, 1961. For over two years, Cuba had been suffering the quake of change that disrupted life as most knew it. It didn’t matter who or where you were: Teachers in the hills conducting a ...

23 Apr 202412min