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...More controversially, and in keeping with the Popular Front affiliations of his youth, he spoke out in support of many of America’s enemies, from Fidel Castro to Hugo Chávez....
...Stiffly determined aristocrats — Velázquez’s moustache-curling “Count-Duke of Olivares”, Goya’s wigged, powdered “Manuel Lapeña” — tower above us, while a laughing “Lucienne Bréval as Carmen” shines in the...
...Carmen, not her real name, lives with her 15-year-old daughter in a dark, tumbledown house in Guanabacoa, half an hour from Havana....
...Among her artists is Panmela Castro, the nom d’artiste of 40-year-old Anarkia Boladona, who uses graffiti to highlight violence against women....
...Amid the wreckage left by protesters just a few blocks from the Costanera Center, businessman Miguel Angel Castro is faced with more immediate challenges....
...Margarita del Carmen Palmán, 40, lives with her husband and three children in a shack made of plastic sheeting, which flaps loudly in the howling winds that blow fine sand everywhere....
...Carmen Ortega says that as a single mother she would be at a loss without the support that comes from Padre Willy. “I don’t know what to say. I get help here, but not from anywhere else.”...
...This is not only a Carmen with added attitude; it is an evocation of one of the most iconic events in 20th-century history, the overthrow of the Batista regime by Castro and his fellow revolutionaries in...
...Carmen Enríquez, an experienced royal-watcher, said the effect of a trial would be muted because the current king and queen broke off with Princess Cristina and her husband when details of the case came...
...Ironically, Castro had benefited from the presence of United Fruit in Cuba....
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