From Time magazine, a story on the growing number of Cuban-Americans who want to lift the embargo and travel ban.
A couple of quotes:
The survey by Miami-based Bendixen & Associates, the largest Hispanic polling firm, also found that 48% of older and more conservative Cuban exiles known as historicos support lifting the prohibition, up from 32% in [...]

I was totally OK with watching Andrew Zimmern of the Travel Channel enjoy the fruit that is Cuba on his new series, Bizarre World, and share it with the world. I was happy to get another glimpse at mesmerizing Cuba today. But, he (to the left in a Travel Channel photo) completely ignored the reality [...]

The Travel Channel kicks off a new series called Bizarre World Tuesday, Sept. 1 at 10 p.m EST. The first episode is focused on Cuba. It is hosted by Andrew Zimmern, who also does the Bizarre Foods show.

Below is the press release and details, plus two sneak peek videos…I may fast-forward through the part [...]

Juanes is going to play in Cuba, in the Plaza de la Revolucion, a stark and scary place where Cubans have been forced to listen to decades and decades of crazy. (Happy Last Birthday, by the way, to the Bearded Dictator). Cubans in exile as ticked-offo. I love the Colombian’s music, so I am curious. [...]

My 19-year-old nephew — just a month shy of moving from Havana to Miami — got a grand tour of the ritzy and lovely city of Coral Gables. He saw the big houses, the lovely tree-shaded streets, the Venetian Pool and the Biltmore Hotel, two beautiful examples of architecture and design and Miami history.
At [...]

…”es como un sueno!”
It’s like a dream!
But it is not.
My step-sister, her husband and teen-age son walked through the gates at Miami International Airport yesterday afternoon. My father was reunited with his daughter on free soil.
Their new life has begun.
It’s big and it feels so good. So good to celebrate the possibilities open to them [...]

I am not very sure how my father will survive the next few days with calm.His oldest daughter will step onto a plane in Havana next week and when she lands in Miami, less than an hour later, she will step onto ground firm with freedom and possibility — for the first time in her [...]

If you want to piss a Cuban-American off, wear a Che t-shirt. (OK, OK, there are countless ways to piss a Cuban-American off, but the Che tee is a really easy peasy super quicky way.)
The man hailed as a freedom fighter, defender of the poor, blah blah blah, is seen by Cuban-Americans as nothing more [...]

Guardalavaca, Cuba, 1996

I know it is Cinco de Mayo, and I really should be writing something about getting sauced on margaritas and taco truck asadas, but I heard Jim Acosta on CNN this morning. I cried and was inspired.

Acosta is a CNN correspondent. He’s Cuban-American, son of a man who left Cuba in 1962 at [...]

It isn’t usually so quiet around here, as quiet is not my nature. But, you know, sometimes a thing like a pukey stomach bug washes the brain of anything smart to say. I have been a little green these last few days.

I could tell you a few things, like how I sat in front of [...]