Interview with Father Román Espada.
Pope Francis’ apostolic trip to Cuba and the United States, between September 19 and 27, is analysed by Father Román Espada, a Cuban Jesuit priest, who paid great attention to the Holy Father’s trip to both nations and very kindly accepted to share his comments with this publication.
A luxury brought to us by the Leo Brouwer Office.
During almost a month – from September 25 to October 18 – the Les Voix Humaines Festival has turned Havana into one of the world’s strong music hubs. Organised by the office of Leo Brouwer with a large group of collaborators, the meeting brought together in the city a considerable number of musicians from the most diverse parts of the world, some of them almost unknown until now for the Cuban public, as well as boosting the work of many of the island’s creators. Contests, training workshops, film cycles, visual art exhibits, also contributed to this megaevent that has been a refined successor of the legendary chamber music meetings that the great guitarist brought about until recently.
A writer of his times has died.
A few months ago Cuban television broadcast, at dawn, a series of films produced by the BBC that took place in a city in southern Sweden and in the serial the great British actor Kenneth Branagh starred as an inspector called Kurt Wallander.
The U.S. secretary of commerce analysed the reach of the measures taken by her government to relax the blockade on Cuba and studied the opportunities offered by this Caribbean nation to her country’s companies.
The visit to Cuba by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker lasted barely two days but they were sufficient to give signs that her government is seriously maneuvering to approach the Cuban economy. According to her statements to the press, she made the trip to explore the ground in order to open the road for her country’s companies.
