Cuban culture, history and the arts

How Bryn Mawr professor Enrique Sacerio-Gari reads José Martí, from his early scholarship to the October 2025 CV. What he argues and why it matters

Mario Rivera Mayito Los Van Van: the flutist's role in Cuba's famous band, why he left in 2011, and a table separating him from the singer by role.

On 15 May 1943, Cuba's CS-13 sank German submarine U-176 off northern Cuba. See the engagement, U-176's specifications, and primary historical sources.

Sucu sucu is a Cuban rhythm-dance from Isla de Pinos. Learn how Eliseo Grenet popularized it in the 1930s and what sources document its origins.

How the Lebanese-Mexican Bichir family became a three-generation acting dynasty, with key film credits and ties to Havana’s Latin American film festival.