http://blog.ahoracuba.com Wandering The Island... Unnoticed. Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:55:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Slightly over a year ago, I was sitting at a restaurant next to a busy, noisy intersection with David, near El Poblado Metro station in Medellín, Colombia. As we were ordering food, I was debating whether or not to get the Bandeja Paisa, a large, gluttunous dish that includes such ... http://blog.ahoracuba.com/2009/02/23/15/40/entre-disfrutar-y-compartir Although authentic Cubita Coffee has been available online and from certain specialty shops in Canada for a while now, over the past few weeks I've been seeing it crop up in pretty much every supermarket that I've been to in the Montreal area. At my local IGA supermarket, I saw ... http://blog.ahoracuba.com/2008/11/07/16/19/cubita-coffee-in-montreal-supermarkets via the BBC: European commissioner Louis Michel has arrived in Havana for meetings aimed at a formal resumption of co-operation between the EU and Cuba. The two-day visit is the result of the EU agreeing to remove all sanctions against communist Cuba in June. Mr Michel will meet Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe ... http://blog.ahoracuba.com/2008/10/23/12/00/eu-official-in-cuba-to-renew-ties (I'm going to start posting more topics that are only tangentially or indirectly related to Cuba. It's been over a year and a half that I haven't returned to the island, and therefore don't feel as qualified to write opinion pieces about it without actually being there. I do, however, ... http://blog.ahoracuba.com/2008/09/29/14/21/rafael-correa-encouraging-free-software-use-in-latin-america I've been doing some video work at home for an unrelated project, and came across some footage that I shot just over a year ago in Cuba. I wanted to use it as the beginning of a documentary about Cuba, a sort of question and answer session with everyday Cubans ... http://blog.ahoracuba.com/2008/03/19/20/13/faces-of-cuba-footage-and-interviews-from-the-island This is the Havana chapter of the footage from "Faces of Cuba I", a documentary which I decided not to release. Instead, I'm putting the raw footage up into the public domain. Hopefully someone will find it useful and / or interesting. http://blog.ahoracuba.com/2008/03/19/19/49/faces-of-cuba-1-havana-cuba-2 This is the second chunk of lightly edited footage from the Faces of Cuba I reel. It is from Trinidad de Cuba and the surrounding area, just over a year ago. It is in the public domain. http://blog.ahoracuba.com/2008/03/19/19/46/faces-of-cuba-2-trinidad-de-cuba The third and last piece of footage from Faces of Cuba I. This was filmed in Villa Clara (mostly Santa Clara). It's released into the Public Domain. http://blog.ahoracuba.com/2008/03/19/19/40/faces-of-cuba-3-villa-clara Not having posted anything here in over a month - and not having posted anything of substance in longer than that - I've been feeling ambivalent as to how to continue writing about Cuba, which is ironic because I've never been short of words in the past. I've already said that ... http://blog.ahoracuba.com/2007/11/22/22/14/turning-the-page BBC NEWS | Americas | Many killed in Cuban train crash At least 28 people have been killed and more than 70 injured in Cuba after a train collided with a bus at a level crossing, official media say. The accident - which is the worst in Cuba for years ... http://blog.ahoracuba.com/2007/10/07/16/49/train-crash-in-cuba