Amir Saarony lives in Toronto, Canada. He has made over 50 trips to Havana and is a true cigar aficionado with a passion for Havana the city, its people and its cigars. He has written numerous articles for international magazines on the latter.
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Exquisite, rare photographs and timely, illuminating commentary reveal a rich architectural history. The lucid, intelligent text and superb photographs present the architectural treasures of the entire island...
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Ann Louise Bardach is the author of Without Fidel: A Death Foretold in Miami, Havana and Washington and Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana. She is also the editor of The Prison Letters of Fidel Castro as well as Cuba: A Travelers Literary Companion and served on The Brookings Institution's Cuba Study Project.
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Outside magazine gave this thumbnail of Armando Menocal: “a world-class Wyoming climber who’s been helping the Cuban rock-climbing community get off the ground.” In the 1990s, Armando travelled to Cuba in search of his family roots, but "discovered" Viñales instead. Amazed at the potential, he made dozens of return trips to climb its rock walls, always bringing gear for the Cubans, eventually publishing a guidebook, Cuba Climbing...
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Beatriz was born in Spain and has been interested in cooking from an early age. She ran cooking classes and a catering business when still a student and then worked at the Alambique Cookery School in Madrid before moving to Cuba...
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Charlie Johnstone is a New York based photographer. His work is to be found in many private collections. He is represented by Meredith Ward Fine Art in New York City...
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Christine Blackburn first picked up a Pentax K-1000 for an introductory photography class at Greenfield Community College in her native state of Massachusetts.  Since then she has not put it down. In January of 2000 she moved on to New York City, where in 2002 she graduated Magna Cum Laude from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Photography and a minor in Cultural Anthropology.
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Caribbean Tourism Organization Awards (Travel Writer of the Year 2005), Rebecca Bruns Award (Outstanding Achievement 2005), Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award ('Best Travel Guidebook' 2006), North American Travel Journalist Association ('Award of Excellence' 2006)...
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Claire Boobbyer is a travel writer, photographer and editor who fell in love with Latin America more than 10 years ago after several backpacking trips around the region. She moved to Spain to learn Spanish and, after a stint of working with wildlife in the Peruvian Amazon, headed north to Central America. She first went to Cuba in 1998 to spend a newly reinstated Christmas Day holiday in Havana and has been returning ever since improving her salsa dancing and Cuban accent each time she visits.
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Author of over a dozen Lonely Planet guides, freelance writer Conner Gorry's first foreign adventure was to Vieques at age 8. That formative experience ignited a fascination with Latin America that, three decades on, is a way of life.
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From 1996 to 1998, he was editor in chief of Artecubano magazine and the informational tabloid Noticias de Artecubano. He was also founder and editor of Dédalo, and art and literature magazine of the Asociación Hermanos Saíz (AHS)...
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Dick Cluster is a writer, translator, and teacher who has been visiting Cuba regularly since 1969 and lived in Havana in the 1990s...
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Eric Testi is a passionate diver who has made more than 3,500 dives, most of which have been in Cuban waters. He is a dive instructor and together with his wife, Déborah Andollo has worked on...
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In 2008, his recently created publishing house BazanPhotos Publishing recently released his new book BazanCuba on 14 years of life and photography on the island. In May 2009, the book was awarded Best Book Of The Year at the New York Photo Festival. His next book Al Campo, an in-depth exploration in color of life in the Cuban countryside, is due to be published in 2011 by BazanPhotos Publishing.
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Fiona Dunlop has been writing on travel, the arts and food since the late 1980s, indulging and fine-tuning a passion for culture worldwide. Born overlooking the Pacific north of Sydney, Australia, she later moved with her family to London, UK.
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Hans Rey, multiple Trials National and World Champion, is one of the pioneers of Trials and Extreme Mountain Biking. Through his spectacular mountain bike trials shows and adventures, Hans has made himself a name far beyond the mountain bike scene. His skills and image are constantly opening the doors to media coverage all over the world; "No Way" Rey has been demonstrating his talents in over 60 countries...
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Hermes Mallea is a member of the American Institute of Architects. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Miami's School of Architecture and completed Columbia University's graduate program in Historic Preservation. Prior to co-founding M(Group) with Carey Maloney, Mr. Mallea worked for architecture firms in Boston and New York.
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Jack Kenny took his first trip to Cuba in April of 1996 and has returned more than 40 times. Current projects include: CUBA, Photographs by Jack Kenny -a 120 page coffee table book with 2006 duo-tone images of Cuba from Corazon Press...
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I´m only trying to machete through all the propaganda from both sides and come to my own truth for you (the reader) and for me (as a Cuban-American)...
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During more than 20 years as a newspaper journalist she won two Qantas Media Awards (New Zealand´s most prestigious print media awards) for feature writing, was twice named NZ Newspaper Travel Writer of the Year and finally NZ Travel Writer of the Year.
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Johannes Werner has worked for 20 years as a business/economic journalist in Europe, Latin America and the United States. His award-winning articles cover a wide range of beats. Werner, who has been traveling to Cuba since 1999,...
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Juliet has worked in journalism, design, photography and design management. Her work has been published and exhibited in England, the US and the Caribbean. During early visits to Cuba she encountered an infuriating dearth of information on Havana in English which promoted ...
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She has had various exhibitons including on Syria and USA in Signal Arts Centre, Bray - Cork Vision Centre - Caherciveen Community Centre and on 'The Convent' in the Cahirciveen library...
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Kate Humble is a writer and presenter. Her most recent television credits include Lambing Live (BBC 2, 2011) Who Do You Think You Are? (BBC 1, 2009), The Spice Trail Trail (BBC 2, 2011) and Springwatch Easter Special (BBC 2, 2011). She has presented a number of programmes about the marine environment including ‘Seawatch’, ‘Pacific Abyss’, ‘Amazon Abyss’ and ‘The Abyss’. She has travelled extensively, including in 2009 to a remote region of Afghanistan...
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Kathy and Craig Copeland are dedicated to each other, and to hiking, in that order. Their second date was a 32-km (20-mile) dayhike in Arizona. Since then they haven't stopped for long...
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Louis Head is Director of Cuba Research & Analysis Group in Albuquerque, NM, co-founder of US-Cuba Cultural Exchange and a member of the Board of the Latin America Working Group in Washington, DC...
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Matthew is an English citizen who is a Director with Ernst and Young responsible for Transaction Advisory Services (TAS) in Cuba. He has spent more than 12 years working predominantly on the island firstly in audit and for the past 7 years in (TAS). Prior to this he worked in London as part of Ernst and Young's capital markets group where he qualified as an ACCA Chartered Accountant...
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Matthu Placek's work focuses on performance and fine arts and has been featured in publications such as The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, V and GQ. His illustrious collaborators and subjects have included Cindy Sherman, Julian Schnabel, Vanessa Beecroft,...
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Michael Dweck’s first major photographic work was published in volume form as The End: Montauk, N.Y., in 2004, and was featured in several exhibitions and art fairs that year. The work portrays the old fishing community of Montauk and its surfing subculture. It is an evocation of a real-world paradise lost: the paradise of summer, youth, and erotic possibility, and of community and camaraderie in a perfect setting. Blending nostalgia, fantasy, and documentation the photographs present a compelling portrait of a place in time and a way of life at once fading and being reinvented.
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Michael Eastman has established himself as one of the world´s leading contemporary photographic artists. The self-taught photographer has spent four decades documenting interiors and facades in cities as diverse as Havana, Paris, Rome, and New Orleans, producing large-scale photographs unified by their visual precision, monumentality, and painterly use of color...
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Rachel Kushner was born in Eugene, Oregon, and raised in San Francisco. She graduated from UC Berkeley and received her M.F.A. in fiction from Columbia University, where she studied with Jonathan Franzen. She worked as an assistant editor at Grand Street and...
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Italian Roberto D'Addona photographs fashion, food, interiors, still life, and travel. He grew up in Switzerland and moved to New York in the mid 90s to study at the International Centre of Photography...
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Robert Polidori is an active photographer based out of New York City. He has published four books of photography, including Havana (2001), Zones of Exclusion Pripyat and Chernobyl (2003), and Metropolis (2004)...
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Rosa Jordan grew up in the Florida Everglades, earned degrees from universities in California and Mexico, emigrated to Canada in 1980, and has written extensively on Latin America. Her non-fiction books include Dangerous Places: Travels on the Edge, and Cycling Cuba, which she co-authored with her partner Derek Choukalos. Most recent is their 2011 guide, Cuba’s Best Beaches. Jordan has authored two other books about Cuba which are scheduled for publication in 2012—a novel titled The Woman She Was and a travel narrative, Island Embrace. She and Derek live, write, ski, and cycle in the Monashee Mountains of British Columbia...
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to procure and manage humanitarian relief from private and government donors in the United States for delivery to churches and hospitals in Havana, Pinar del Rio, and Camaguey provinces in Cuba. In 2006, Sam returned to Cuba and produced a photographic narrative on World Heritage Sites in Old Havana for the Washington Spark Newspaper. In 2008 Sam continued documenting Cuba during Hurricane Ike, completing pre-production for photographs documenting the intersection of state-organized medicine and education, and how it is exported to improve the health of poor communities in both industrialized and developing countries. Upon returning to the United States, he organized...
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Sarah Stephens is Executive Director of the non-partisan Center for Democracy in the Americas and its Freedom toTravel Campaign, which fights for the rights of all US citizens to travel to Cuba...
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Schona Jolly is a British freelance writer and lawyer whose passion for Cuba and Latin America sees her frequently in the region, and as often as she can be in Havana. She has almost finished her first novel, and in the meanwhile continues to write for the Guardian and other...
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KUTI has lived in Havana for nine years. In her search beyond the city, she reveals unknown realities, hard yet tender images, sceneries that are at times full of light, others, dramatic. She brings moving images, and poignant gazes...
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Ordinary classic fashion photography does not give me the right kick. Today life has more lifestyle, it is more free and dynamic. Authenticity plays a more and more important part in modern catalogue productions. Pictures should be alive, arouse longings…The “posed photography” has lost its attraction...
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I have been working for the Quincy Jones Musiq Consortium as Project Director since July 2011. Prior to joining QJMC, I served for two years as Managing Director of El Sistema USA at New England Conservatory in Boston. El Sistema USA is inspired by Venezuela's monumental "social change through music" program. From 2005-2008, I lived in Maputo, Mozambique where I was the Founder and Project Manager of...
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Stephen Gibbs spent five years living in Cuba as the BBC's correspondent based in Havana. He has worked as a radio and TV reporter for fifteen years; outside Latin America he has spent extended periods reporting from both the Middle East and ...
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This eagerly awaited new album features one of Cuba's new rising stars, Diana Fuentes...
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Her research has focused on the politics of everyday culture, from film discussion groups, rap music, and performance art in her first book Cuba Represent! to community media, murals, and popular fiestas in her second book on Venezuela, Who Can Stop the Drums? Through her work she has...
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Susan Banks received her artistic training at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and also studied in Mexico with the renowned photographers Mary Ellen Mark and Graciela Iturbide and later with Constantine Manos in Havana. Her work has been published in such prestigious publications as Camera Arts and The Photo Review. The Campo Adentro series has received various local and national awards including the Fleischer Challenge Award, Perkins Center Juror’s Award, Texas Photo Project and Santa Fe Project Competition Juror’s Choice Award. Bank was the recipient of a Leeway Foundation grant in 2002. Prior to Cuba: Campo Adentro, Bank’s most widely recognized work is a series of photographs that document the people of the resort town of Salisbury Beach, Massachusetts. Black and white photographs depicting tobacco farmers, their families and a rural landscape in Cuba’s Pinar del Rio Province are on view at the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown from August 16, 2008 through January 4, 2009. Cuba: Camp Adentro, meaning "deep within the country," is a series by Philadelphia photographer Susan S. Bank who stumbled upon an agricultural community in the Valley of Vinales in 2002 while on break from a project in Havana. Working simply with a 35mm camera on return visits to barrio Cuajaní over the next five years, Bank documented 10 households who appeared to have never before been photographed, growing their own food, surviving without any modern conveniences and a living a life firmly anchored in family, neighbors, animals and love of their land.
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Sven's work includes features on all aspects of Cuban life, extensive archives on Castro as well as on all tourist spots on the island. He has travelled throughout Latin America to cover issues ranging from Presidential portrait of Chavez in Venezuela, Lapislazuli mining in the Chilenean Andes, Favelas in Rio de Janeiro to American's handover of the Panama Canal...
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Wayne is now a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Policy, www.ciponline.org, in Washington, D.C. At the time he left the Foreign Service in 1982 because of his...
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Amir Saarony lives in Toronto, Canada. He has made over 50 trips to Havana and is a true cigar aficionado with a passion for Havana the city, its people and its cigars. He has written numerous articles for international magazines on the latter. 
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Ann Louise Bardach is the author of Without Fidel: A Death Foretold in Miami, Havana and Washington and Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana. She is also the editor of The Prison Letters of Fidel Castro as well as Cuba: A Travelers Literary Companion and served on The Brookings Institution's Cuba Study Project. 
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Outside magazine gave this thumbnail of Armando Menocal: “a world-class Wyoming climber who’s been helping the Cuban rock-climbing community get off the ground.” In the 1990s, Armando travelled to Cuba in search of his family roots, but "discovered" Viñales instead. Amazed at the potential, he made dozens of return trips to climb its rock walls, always bringing gear for the Cubans, eventually publishing a guidebook, Cuba Climbing... 
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Beatriz was born in Spain and has been interested in cooking from an early age. She ran cooking classes and a catering business when still a student and then worked at the Alambique Cookery School in Madrid before moving to Cuba... 
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Caribbean Tourism Organization Awards (Travel Writer of the Year 2005), Rebecca Bruns Award (Outstanding Achievement 2005), Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award ('Best Travel Guidebook' 2006), North American Travel Journalist Association ('Award of Excellence' 2006)... 
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Claire Boobbyer is a travel writer, photographer and editor who fell in love with Latin America more than 10 years ago after several backpacking trips around the region. She moved to Spain to learn Spanish and, after a stint of working with wildlife in the Peruvian Amazon, headed north to Central America. She first went to Cuba in 1998 to spend a newly reinstated Christmas Day holiday in Havana and has been returning ever since improving her salsa dancing and Cuban accent each time she visits. 
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Author of over a dozen Lonely Planet guides, freelance writer Conner Gorry's first foreign adventure was to Vieques at age 8. That formative experience ignited a fascination with Latin America that, three decades on, is a way of life. 
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From 1996 to 1998, he was editor in chief of Artecubano magazine and the informational tabloid Noticias de Artecubano. He was also founder and editor of Dédalo, and art and literature magazine of the Asociación Hermanos Saíz (AHS)... 
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Dick Cluster is a writer, translator, and teacher who has been visiting Cuba regularly since 1969 and lived in Havana in the 1990s... 
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Fiona Dunlop has been writing on travel, the arts and food since the late 1980s, indulging and fine-tuning a passion for culture worldwide. Born overlooking the Pacific north of Sydney, Australia, she later moved with her family to London, UK. 
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Hans Rey, multiple Trials National and World Champion, is one of the pioneers of Trials and Extreme Mountain Biking. Through his spectacular mountain bike trials shows and adventures, Hans has made himself a name far beyond the mountain bike scene. His skills and image are constantly opening the doors to media coverage all over the world; "No Way" Rey has been demonstrating his talents in over 60 countries... 
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Hermes Mallea is a member of the American Institute of Architects. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Miami's School of Architecture and completed Columbia University's graduate program in Historic Preservation. Prior to co-founding M(Group) with Carey Maloney, Mr. Mallea worked for architecture firms in Boston and New York. 
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I´m only trying to machete through all the propaganda from both sides and come to my own truth for you (the reader) and for me (as a Cuban-American)... 
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During more than 20 years as a newspaper journalist she won two Qantas Media Awards (New Zealand´s most prestigious print media awards) for feature writing, was twice named NZ Newspaper Travel Writer of the Year and finally NZ Travel Writer of the Year.  
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Johannes Werner has worked for 20 years as a business/economic journalist in Europe, Latin America and the United States. His award-winning articles cover a wide range of beats. Werner, who has been traveling to Cuba since 1999,... 
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Juliet has worked in journalism, design, photography and design management. Her work has been published and exhibited in England, the US and the Caribbean. During early visits to Cuba she encountered an infuriating dearth of information on Havana in English which promoted ... 
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Kate Humble is a writer and presenter. Her most recent television credits include Lambing Live (BBC 2, 2011) Who Do You Think You Are? (BBC 1, 2009), The Spice Trail Trail (BBC 2, 2011) and Springwatch Easter Special (BBC 2, 2011). She has presented a number of programmes about the marine environment including ‘Seawatch’, ‘Pacific Abyss’, ‘Amazon Abyss’ and ‘The Abyss’. She has travelled extensively, including in 2009 to a remote region of Afghanistan... 
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Kathy and Craig Copeland are dedicated to each other, and to hiking, in that order. Their second date was a 32-km (20-mile) dayhike in Arizona. Since then they haven't stopped for long... 
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Louis Head is Director of Cuba Research & Analysis Group in Albuquerque, NM, co-founder of US-Cuba Cultural Exchange and a member of the Board of the Latin America Working Group in Washington, DC... 
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Matthew is an English citizen who is a Director with Ernst and Young responsible for Transaction Advisory Services (TAS) in Cuba. He has spent more than 12 years working predominantly on the island firstly in audit and for the past 7 years in (TAS). Prior to this he worked in London as part of Ernst and Young's capital markets group where he qualified as an ACCA Chartered Accountant... 
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Rachel Kushner was born in Eugene, Oregon, and raised in San Francisco. She graduated from UC Berkeley and received her M.F.A. in fiction from Columbia University, where she studied with Jonathan Franzen. She worked as an assistant editor at Grand Street and... 
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Rosa Jordan grew up in the Florida Everglades, earned degrees from universities in California and Mexico, emigrated to Canada in 1980, and has written extensively on Latin America. Her non-fiction books include Dangerous Places: Travels on the Edge, and Cycling Cuba, which she co-authored with her partner Derek Choukalos. Most recent is their 2011 guide, Cuba’s Best Beaches. Jordan has authored two other books about Cuba which are scheduled for publication in 2012—a novel titled The Woman She Was and a travel narrative, Island Embrace. She and Derek live, write, ski, and cycle in the Monashee Mountains of British Columbia... 
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Sarah Stephens is Executive Director of the non-partisan Center for Democracy in the Americas and its Freedom toTravel Campaign, which fights for the rights of all US citizens to travel to Cuba... 
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Schona Jolly is a British freelance writer and lawyer whose passion for Cuba and Latin America sees her frequently in the region, and as often as she can be in Havana. She has almost finished her first novel, and in the meanwhile continues to write for the Guardian and other... 
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I have been working for the Quincy Jones Musiq Consortium as Project Director since July 2011. Prior to joining QJMC, I served for two years as Managing Director of El Sistema USA at New England Conservatory in Boston. El Sistema USA is inspired by Venezuela's monumental "social change through music" program. From 2005-2008, I lived in Maputo, Mozambique where I was the Founder and Project Manager of... 
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Stephen Gibbs spent five years living in Cuba as the BBC's correspondent based in Havana. He has worked as a radio and TV reporter for fifteen years; outside Latin America he has spent extended periods reporting from both the Middle East and ... 
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This eagerly awaited new album features one of Cuba's new rising stars, Diana Fuentes... 
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Her research has focused on the politics of everyday culture, from film discussion groups, rap music, and performance art in her first book Cuba Represent! to community media, murals, and popular fiestas in her second book on Venezuela, Who Can Stop the Drums? Through her work she has... 
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Wayne is now a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Policy, www.ciponline.org, in Washington, D.C. At the time he left the Foreign Service in 1982 because of his... 
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