Scribe revisits Cuban roots with Smits TV drama
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LOS ANGELES  - If it weren't for her absolute loathing of speech class, Cynthia Cidre would have been an English professor today, teaching Victorian literature at a college somewhere.
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BOGOTA, Colombia -- Ariel Perez was, like thousands of fellow Cuban doctors, a devoted soldier in Fidel Castro's most important overseas mission -- providing medical care to the poor in oil-rich Venezuela, Cuba's most vital ally. But last year, Perez and two Cuban companions, carrying rucksacks with...
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Cuba publishes an article signed by President Fidel Castro amid speculation among exiles about his health.
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Description: Film critic Kenneth Turan reviews the Brazilian movie Motorcycle Diaries. It&#39;s the story of a young Che Guevara, the Cuban revolutionary who died almost 40 years ago.
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âThe Landlordâ gives audiences a chance to see a pivotal moment not only in the career of Hal Ashby but also in the history of New York real estate.
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In a nation obsessed with soap operas, it's the hottest telenovela in years. Airing nightly in prime time, "Sin Tetas no hay Paraiso" &#151; "Without (Breasts) There's No Paradise" &#151; revolves around a 17-year old call girl who agonizes that her flat chest is a barrier to deliverance from poverty and a life of ease as a drug trafficker's pampered plaything.
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Politically charged drama, comedy, and reality fare is coming to network and cable TV.
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Young Latinos&#146; taste in entertainment runs from English to Spanish, from American to Latin, and back. And MTV is giving chase.
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Travel guides list Little Havana as the heart of the Cuban exile community, the symbolic hub of opposition to Fidel Castro and a must-see neighborhood for its galleries, cigar shops and espresso stands.
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By Tal Abbady, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Feb. 4--Taking a cue from the Cuban-American exile community, Venezuelans in South Florida are turning to radio to slam their homeland's controversial leader and unify their community.
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A South Florida Spanish-language TV station has begun broadcasting programs produced by TV Marti, the federally owned station that beams anti-Castro programming into Cuba, U.S. officials said.
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For years, Nilder Santos and his family had been hoping to win the most prized lottery in Cuba. But each time it was held, the 25-year-old dancer and his parents were heartbroken when their names didn't appear on the list of the lucky ones allowed to leave the poverty of their communist nation to chase the American dream.
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There&#039;s hardly a spot on Cuba untouched by its slavery past, not unlike most Caribbean islands.
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The man who was Meyer Lansky's driver and bodyguard during the Mafia's heyday in pre-Revolutionary Cuba died earlier this year, a curious footnote in a communist-run country whose past as a gambling mecca for vacationing Americans is all but forgotten.
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LOS ANGELES  - Gael Garcia Bernal, who  is generating buzz for his role as Ernesto "Che" Guevara in  "The Motorcycle Diaries," is revving up for the new project  from the director of "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind."
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As the writers' strike enters its fourth month, six scribes explore a different medium.
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NBC is looking for its  own hit mystery/adventure drama set on an island.