It is apt that Barack Obama should be the first American president for five decades to meaningfully address the Cuban embargo. After all when he became the first black president of the United States, voted into power on two occasions, …
Attempting to make a Café Cubano
Here at Cuban Life we enjoy tasting the flavours of Cuba. Anyone who’s had the pleasure of experiencing Cuban culture, even outside of Cuba, will quickly realise that coffee is pretty essential to most Cubans. A lot of people argue that …
The Blue Fragrant Smoke
“A smoke in times of rest is a great companion to the solitary soldier.” – Che Guevara. A history of the Cuban cigar Tobacco smoking in Cuba was first witnessed by Europeans when Christopher Columbus’s sailors saw the Tainos smoking …
Hemingway – From Key West to Cuba
Ernest Hemingway was a literary giant of the 20th century and one of its most recognizable characters. His talent with a typewriter was matched by a wanderlust which saw him involved in many of the defining epochs of his lifetime. …