Castro, Fidel, 8, 12, 19, 30, 61, 63, 77–78, 90, 113, 138, 142, 172
Castro, Mariela, 54
Castro, Raúl, 1, 8–9, 113, 121, 123, 124, 172
celebrity culture, 82, 95–96
cellphones, 155, 157, 159
censorship, 75–76, 79, 90, 112
Center for Democracy in the Americas (CDA), 174–75
Centro Pablo Press, 90
Centro Vocacional de Lenin, 69
Cerro, 51–56, 128, 155, 182
children/childhood, 60–71; lack of consumer culture, 114–15
CIDA exchange programs, 13
Cienfuegos, Camilo, 68
Circulos Infantiles. See daycares
Cluster, Dick: “To Live Outside the Law You Must be Honest,” 143
Cold War, 4, 11, 85, 138, 174–75
Cole, Teju, 23
Colome, Abelardo, 121
Colome, Jose, 121
communications system, 154–60
communism, 3, 75; “hippie,” 92, 95–96
consumer economy: lack of, 160; underground, 162
corruption, 144–49, 152
Costco, taking Cubans to, 164–68
Coyula, Mario, 179
crime, 102, 105, 142–46; armed robbery, 143
Cruz, Celia, 75, 97
Cuban controvertible peso (CUC), 8, 33–34, 36, 109, 130
Cuban Federation of Women (FMC), 65
“Cuban Five” (Los Cinco Heroes), 88, 172
Cubanidad [Cubanness], 136
“Cuban missile crisis,” 8, 12
Cuban Music Institute, 89, 94
Cuban pesos. See moneda nacional
Cuban Railroad Company, 10
Cuban revolution (1959), 11, 60, 69, 74, 79, 80, 138
cuentapropismo (self-employment), 9, 29, 70, 114, 117–18, 131, 143, 175
cultural mixing, 73
Cumaná, Caridad, 78, 82, 139
currency system, 8, 127
Davidson, Melanie, 40
Davis, Angela, 20
daycares, 61, 63–71
de Beauvoir, Simone, 19–20
D17 (December 17, 2014), 1–2, 6, 9, 11, 32, 96, 107, 114, 170–73, 179, 181
“decolonized cosmopolitanism,” 20
de la Campa, Ramón, 61
de la Nuez, Iván, 19–20; Fantasía Rojo [Red Fantasy], 19–20
Delany, Ian, 13
Delgado, Frank, 85, 92, 96; “A Letter from a Cuban Child to Harry Potter,” 40; “La Otra Orilla” [The Other Shore], 166
del Rio, Francis, 93, 85, 173
Díaz, Jesus, 166
Díaz, Telmary, 38, 83–85, 97–101, 119; A Diario, 98; “Music is My Weapon,” 106; “Que Equivoca’o,” 98
Diefenbaker, John, 12
Dion, Céline, 16
Donohue, Thomas J., 123
drought, 180
Dubinsky, Karen, 111
Dylan, Bob, 94–95, 143
eastern Cuba, 170–71
economic transformation, 8–9, 55, 113–53, 181
economy: black market, 115; formal vs. informal, 37; new, 113–53; underground, 114, 143, 162
El Brecht (Bertolt Brecht Cultural Centre), 82–90, 173
El Calde: “Se Calentó,” 104–5
energy conservation, 126
entrepreneurship, 27, 31, 38, 56, 117, 123, 125, 127, 156, 158–59, 174–75
ETECSA (telephone company), 55, 155, 157, 159
Fábrica de Arte Cubano (FAC), 94, 106–12
“Fair Play for Cuba” groups, 12
Feinberg, Richard, 117–18
Feliú, Santiago, 90–96, 112; “Para Barbara” [For Barbara], 96
femininity, 54, 97
feminism, 57–59, 99
Fernández, Darsi, 83
Flake, Jeff, 22
food, 3–42, 119–23; food stands, 115–17
Fowler, Victor, 158
Fox, Terry, 16
Free Hole Negro, 99
Fuente, La, 120
Futuros Communistas daycare, 65, 66, 69
Galeano, Eduardo, 18
Gallo, Hector Pasual: “Garden of Affections,” 127
Gandhi, Leela, 23
garage bands, 74
garbage, 149–53
García, Josué, 91, 112
gay community, 53–55, 182
Gema and Pavel: “Helado Sobre Ruedas” [Ice Cream on Wheels], 47
Gente de Zona (group), 26, 105–6
Gitlin, Todd, 20
Goldberg, Jeffrey, 113
González, Elián, 61–63
González Pagés, Julio César, 58, 93, 102, 103, 104, 189n20
Graham, John W., 12
Granma, 4
Grant, Cary, 46–47
Gross, Allan, 172
“Guantanamera,” 75
Guatemala, 105
Guevara, Che, 4, 19–20, 30, 68
Habana Blues, 156
Havana, 25–27; airport, 177–79; as beautiful, wounded city, 3; freedom of movement in, 7; as “Paris of the Caribbean,” 3; Pride Day, 54; real estate in, 127–38; restaurants in, 119–23; sound of, 72–112; symbolic Canadianization of, 17
Havana Biennial, 45–46, 126
Havana Book Fair (Feria del Libro), 90
Havana International Film Festival, 32
Havana Jazz Festival, 74, 173
Havana Psychiatric Hospital, 147–48
“Havana Street View,” 158
Hevia, Liuba María, 64
hip hop, 77–78, 98
Ho Chi Minh, 22
homophobia, 55, 97
Hosek, Jennifer, 19
housing problem, 132–38
Human Poverty Index, 34
Humbertico, Papá, 141
hypersexuality, 77
ideology, 4, 7, 23–25, 47, 132
Iglesias, Enrique, 26
immigration, 79
Industriales (baseball team), 52
inequality: global, 24, 62; racial, 8, 34
Infomed, 156
Instituto de Farmacia y Alimentos, 147
Instituto Superior del Arte (ISA), 92, 109
Interactivo, 74, 82–90, 97, 99, 108, 173; “Cubanos por el mundo,” 88
International Children’s Day, 63
International Telecommunications Union, 154–55
International Women’s Day, 59
Internet, 154–60, 182
Jay-Z, 2, 107, 170
Kane, Molly, 23
Kennedy, John F., 12
Kerry, John, 179
kiosk economy, 116–17, 158
Kirk, John, 185n1
Klepak, Hal, 185n1
Krull, Cathy, 40
Labatt brewers, 13
Laferrière, Dany, 23
land line service, 155–57
Las PePe, 121
left intelligentsia, Western: fascination of with Cuba, 20
legality/illegality, 143–44
Lejania, 166
Lenin, Vladimir, 80
Lennon, John, 20
Leonard, Neil, 47
lesbian and gay rights, 54
libreta system (Libreta de Abastecimientos), 36–38
Litoral, El, 120–21
Lopez, Elio Hector, 159
Lord, Susan, 20, 82, 111, 121
Los Aldeanos, 84
lucha, la, 127
Luxemburg, Rosa, 68
maniseras/maniseros, 50–51
maquinas, 139–40
Martí, José, 4, 68
masculinity, 58, 97, 102
masturbation, public, 25, 58
McTurk, James, 16
men, 56–60
Menéndez, Ana: “In Cuba I was a German Shepherd,” 81
Mexico, 11
“micros,” 132
middle class, 25, 114, 119
Mills, C. Wright, 20
Monasterio Barsó, Freddy, 112
Moneda Dura: “Tercer Mundo” [Third World], 20
moneda nacional (MN; Cuban pesos), 8, 34, 35–36, 109, 116, 130
Monreal, Ped
ro, 125
“Monstruos devoradores de Energia” [Energy Devouring Monsters], 126
Morales, Esteban, 148–49
Mother’s Day, 58–59, 158
Museo de Bellas Artes, 147
music, 72–112, 170; and history, 78–82; income from, 85; misogyny of, 104; and women, 84, 97–106
Nasatir, Robert, 91
National Institute of Water Resources, 180
Nauta program, 157
neo-liberalism, 124
new economy, 113–53
normalcy, 166–67
“Nueva Trova,” 91–92, 108
Nuñez, Pastorita, 52
Obama, Barack, 1–2, 22, 32, 88, 97, 138, 172–73
O’Brien, Conan, 2
Old Havana, 29, 50–51, 54, 55, 73, 84, 91, 120, 128, 134, 137, 161
Only Angels Have Wings, 46–47
Operation Peter Pan, 60–61, 63
“Oriente.” See eastern Cuba
Oroza, Ernesto, 125
over-consumption, 165, 167
overcrowding, 132–33
Pabexpo Exhibition Complex, 161
Padura, Leonardo, 178
panaderías, 36, 39
Pánfilo, 44–46
el Paquete Semanal, 158–59, 170
Parkins, David, 2, 3
Pastors for Peace, 70
Paz, Mary, 84
Pérez, Louis, 4; On Becoming Cuban, 16
permuta system, 128, 133
Perugorría, Jorge, 129
Polzot, Christina, 171–72
Portuanda, Omara, 97, 134–35
potatoes, 35, 182
poverty, 34, 99, 134–36
pregoneros, 46–51
Prieto, Elio: “Travels by Taxi,” 138
private sector, 118. See also new economy
“Proposed Guidelines of the Economic and Social Policy,” 113
protestodromo (Anti-Imperialist Tribunal), 4, 88
racism, 45, 148
Ramírez Anderson, Alejandro, 134–36
Ravsburg, Fernando, 180
real estate, 114, 127–38
recycling, 150, 151
reggaetón, 76–77, 104
Reloba, Xenia, 22, 90–91, 95, 154, 164–65
resourcefulness, 125, 127
restaurants, 119–23, 175
Rio Zaza, 39
Rochy. See under Ameneiro, Rochy
Rodríguez, Ines, 170–71
Rodríguez, Silvio, 76, 78, 89–90, 134–36
Rosenberg, Ethel, 20, 21, 22
Rosenberg, Julius, 20, 21, 22
Royal Bank of Canada, 16–17
Sánchez, Celia, 68
Sánchez, Jorge Mario, 114, 120
Sands, Bobby, 22
Santa, Melvis, 88
Santaria, 18
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 19–20
self-employment. See cuentapropismo
Se Permuta, 128
Se Vende, 129
sexism, 77, 97, 102
Sherritt International, 13
shopping, 160–68
“The Shopping,” 33, 35
Simons, Moisés: “El Manisero” [The Peanut Vendor], 46–47
Síntesis, 107–8
Smith, Wayne, 4
socialism, 7, 46, 124, 146, 180–81
sociolismo, 38, 181; vs. socialismo, 7, 146
Solaya, Marilyn, 24–25; Vestido de Novia [His Wedding Dress], 25, 103
Sontag, Susan, 20
Sosa, Mercedes, 32
Soviet Union, 8, 39, 61; collapse of, 80
“Special Period,” 8, 39–40, 43, 51, 65, 125, 127
Springsteen, Bruce, 78
StarBien, 121, 123
stereotypes, 4–5, 17–18, 22, 54, 102, 154
Super Burger, 121, 122–23
syncretism, 73
taxis, 138–41
“technological disobedience,” 126–27, 158
Telmary. See under Díaz, Telmary
Thomas, Susan: “Did Nobody Pass the Girls the Guitar?,” 97
Those Who Dream with Their Ears, 26
Tienda de Los Rusos, La, 118–19
“Todas Contracorriente,” 102
tourism, 1–2, 58, 96, 107, 124; incentives for, 8; influx of, 179; mocking of, 19–20, 141–42; preference for Germans over Canadians, 5
transgender rights, 54
trova, 97, 102
Trudeau, Margaret, 12–13
Trudeau, Pierre, 12
Tzara, Tristan, 80
ultimo system, 60, 181
UNICEF, 71
United Nations Millennium Development Goals, 34
United States: absence from Cuba, 2; animosity toward Cuba, 2; cultural influences, 16; economic blockade of Cuba, 37, 79, 125, 174, 179; embassy in Havana, 3–4, 12, 179; relationship with Cuba, 10, 32, 174. See also D17 (December 17, 2014)
utility costs, 31
Valdés, Ele, 107
Valdés, Oliver, 83
Van Horne, William, 10–11
Varela, Carlos, 76, 78–82, 84, 90–92, 94–96, 110, 143, 164, 174–75, 180; “Backdrop,” 80–81; “Checkmate 1916,” 80; “Everyone Steals,” 81; “Hanging from the Sky,” 80–81; “Memorias,” 76; “Now That the Maps Are Changing Colour,” 80; “Politics Don’t Fit in a Sugar Bowl,” 79–80; “Robinson,” 80; “The Sons of William Tell,” 79; “Todo Será Distinto,” 180–81; “Todo se roban,” 144–45; “The Woodcutter without a Forest,” 81
Vedado, 29–31, 33, 51, 55, 73–74, 83, 86–87, 99, 118, 121, 130, 134, 141, 161
violence, 102–5, 142; against women, 102, 189n20
Walmart, 165, 167
Warner, 188n2
War on Terror, 4
weather, 179–80
Weiss, Rachel, 22
West, Kanye, 170
Wickery, Stephen, 172
wine, 118–19
women, 56–60; and independence, 103; and music, 84, 97–106; piropos vs. groseros, 57–58; predominance of in markets, 39–40; violence against, 189n20
World Festival of Youth and Students, 18–19
“Yo Digo No” (“I Say No”) antiviolence campaign, 103, 105
“Your Freedom” program, 157
Yusa, 83
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Karen Dubinsky has observed Havana and Cuba as an intimate outsider for many years. She regularly brings university students from Canada to Havana to learn about Cuban economic and cultural development, and she hosts Cuban musicians and academics in Canada. She has written about legendary Cuban musician Carlos Varela in My Havana: The Musical City of Carlos Varela, and on Cuban child migration conflicts in Babies Without Borders: Adoption and Migration Conflicts Across the Americas. Her other books include The Second Greatest Disappointment: Honeymooning and Tourism at Niagara Falls, and New World Coming: The Sixties and the Shaping of Global Consciousness. She teaches in the departments of Global Development Studies and History at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario.
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