“I write suspicious books that take place in foreign countries: France and Italy, Communist Cuba and fascist Spain. I lived among the Cuban Communists all those years. I speak languages J. Edgar ...

The Cuban Peso (CUP) is Cuba's official currency, used for local transactions and historical purposes. Explore its history and place in Cuba's monetary system.

First there was the late, great Cuban jazz pianist, Bebo Valdés, who collaborated with Spanish flamenco legend Diego El Cigala on their exceptional album Lagrimas Negras (Black Tears) in 2004. Their ...

The word “clave” refers to the round hardwood stick used as a percussion instrument in tropical latin music (Afro-Cuban, salsa, merengue, cha cha, etc.). It looks a little like a hot dog without the ...

Spanish-language theater, produced locally and by companies outside Miami-Dade County, is not rare in an area where only 27 percent of residents are English-only speakers. While productions in Spanish ...

Enough of this little gotcha on how George "I think the national anthem ought to be sung in English" Bush had Jon Secada sing the national anthem in Spanish during his first inaugural's "Celebrating ...

HAVANA (Reuters) - On a historic visit to Cuba, Spanish premier Pedro Sanchez vowed on Friday that his country would continue to increase investments there despite Cuba's cash woes, illustrating ...

National Cuban Sandwich Day is Aug. 23. The Cuban sandwich actually doesn't come from Cuba — it's a Florida thing, invented in Tampa. In about 1890, it started in the Ybor City neighborhood, where ...

A Spanish politician accused of reckless driving after a car crash that killed two Cuban dissidents was sentenced to four years in prison, Cuban state media said Monday. Angel Carromero had faced a ...

MADRID, Nov 14 (Reuters) - The Cuban government withdrew press credentials from five journalists from the Spanish news agency EFE but later reinstated two of them, EFE said, ahead of a banned protest ...