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Parque Lenin
By Johanna Jahnke, Public Health in Cuba, Summer 2011 Last week we visited Parque Lenin, a community space built after the Revolution that, at the time of its creation, was meant to embody a communist...
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Consequencias for Cuba
By Emily Roskey, Public Health in Cuba, Summer 2011 It’s been two weeks since we arrived in La Habana. This past week has been overwhelming yet its inspired social, economic, educational and...
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La fruta prohibida
By Michael Hernandez, Public Health in Cuba, Summer 2012 As the 19 of us sat in the small, air-conditioned classroom at Casas de las Americas, surrounded by our professors for the next two months, the...
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The Economy is Falling off Trucks
By Anna Radoff, Public Health in Cuba, Summer 2013 The first photo is of a ratio center where Cubans get food. The second is just a nice view. Only 20% of the Cuban economy is legal while the other...
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Connections: the Inextricable Link Between the US and Cuba
By Nicholas Wang, Public Health in Cuba, Summer 2013 This post marks the first full week that we’ve spent here in Cuba, and I know that I speak for the group when I say that we are learning a ton. Cuba...
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On Being a White “Cuban”
By Carlos Martinez, Cuba: Culture & Society, Summer 2013 It’s an interesting phenomenon. Walking the streets of Cuba among a group of Americans and feeling both connected yet aloof. I am American....
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Rotilla Festival
By Carlos Martinez, Cuba: Culture & Society, Summer 2013 Think of it as a Cuban version of the Electric Daisy Carnival or Ultra Music Festival, or maybe the Coachella Valley Music and Arts...
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“Fixing” Cuba
By Anna Radoff, Public Health in Cuba, Summer 2013 As our trip comes to a close and classes begin to wrap up, we are faced with questions of what is next not only for ourselves, but for Cuba. As to be...
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Burritos in Havana
There’s a new restaurant in town. It’s called El Habanero Burrito, and it’s one of those hole-in-the-wall places that spills out onto the sidewalk of Calle 23, one of the busiest streets in Havana’s...
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Billboards
During our first cab ride from the Aeropuerto Internacional José-Martí to our casa in Havana, I couldn’t take my eyes off the different world passing by my window. Part of this completely new scenery...
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