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    The skateboarders of Cuba are carving their way to official recognition of the sport

    23 Jul 2019

    With skateboarding making its Olympic debut in Japan next year, Cuban skateboarders are hoping their sport will finally be accepted at home.

    US visits to Cuba almost double despite Trump sanctions

    08 May 2019

    Cuba's relationship with Donald Trump's administration may be worsening, but that didn't stop the island nation from welcoming more than a quarter million US visitors in the first four months of 2019.

    Art frenzy takes over Havana as biennial kicks off

    15 Apr 2019

    Cones of white paper sprout from the seasalt-eroded pillars of one colonial building along Havana's seafront, elaborately painted curtains cascade from another while out front children play with an installation of multicolored hoses.

    Dianelys Alfonso has become the pioneer of the #MeToo movement

    15 Jul 2019

    Dianelys Alfonso has a brassy presence - brightly colored tattoos, spandex bodysuits, Technicolor hair - and a clarion voice that won her the label "Goddess of Cuba" for her turns on songs ranging from ballads to reggaeton.

    Young orchestra musicians bridge US-Cuba divide

    25 May 2019

    On Havana's National Theatre stage, where the Cuban American Youth Orchestra has been rehearsing all week, it's difficult to distinguish the different nationalities of the violinists, clarinetists and cellists as they play in perfect unison.

    The women boxers of Cuba are packing a hefty punch for equality

    10 Jun 2019

    Cuba’s legendary boxing tradition still disallows women from competing, and boxer Idamelys Moreno and her peers are fighting for their place in the boxing ring.

    Havana's Chinatown dreaming of a new lease on life

    09 May 2019

    These are some of the last remaining Cuban residents who are 100 percent Chinese. Their descendants have embraced the local culture, and are more Cuban than Chinese.

    Cubans seek to revive little-known tango legacy

    22 Jul 2019

    Cuba may be known now for upbeat salsa, but long before that genre even emerged its Afro beats fed into the melancholic Argentine tango which was widely popular on the Caribbean's largest island.

    Cuba's worker bees boost thriving honey business

    10 Apr 2019

    In the floral valleys of Cuba's Matanzas province, old fashioned farming means bees can swarm without the threat of pesticides that have decimated populations across the world.

    Cuban centenarians, cheered on by family, aim for 120

    30 Jun 2019

    Barrios is one of more than 2,000 people in impoverished Cuba who are 100 years or old -- a reality that has piqued the interest of experts, and led some to aim for even longer lives.

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