by Shane English | Nov 3, 2015 |
Without Soviet-supplied pesticides and chemicals, some farms grow the natural way HAVANA — Organically grown lettuce, beans, rice, mushrooms, spices and even Santeria plants cover the reddish soil at the 25-acre urban grove of Vivero Alamar cooperative, on the...
by Shane English | Nov 3, 2015 |
HAVANA — Ibis Díaz offers a room for rent in Centro Havana, midway between el Vedado and Old Havana, two of the city’s tourist draws. The apartment she owns is prime real estate steps away from El Malecón, the promenade along the sea where Cubans walk, meet, play...
by Shane English | Nov 3, 2015 |
A look at the cuentapropistas who are authorized to perform some 200 trades Cubans are entrepreneurs. They repair a Jeep with a Volkswagen Jetta engine. They open a small business making furniture with used wood. They rent rooms in their homes or set up restaurants...
by Shane English | Mar 17, 2016 |
HAVANA — Cars driven for more than a half-century wait, with parts pulled off, to be reinvented at Oscar Rodríguez’s shop — a courtyard he converted into a garage. Rodríguez and three of his childhood friends come up with creative fixes for the decades-old cars that...
by Shane English | Nov 3, 2015 |
HAVANA — In an upstairs apartment of a building soon to become a hotel, Rubén Garcel gives shape with black ink to a design of roses and thorns on a woman’s thigh. In a room with high ceilings, plenty of daylight and peeling paint, the woman, Elizabeth Jardines of the...
