All posts tagged "cuba"
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Dr. Carlos Eire on Totalitarianism, Faith and Liberty [podcast]
Dr. Carlos Eire returns to talk about how his life as a Cuban refugee and being taken in by Jewish foster parents affected his faith,...
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Yale’s Dr. Carlos Eire on Saints, Martyrs and Self-Defense [podcast]
Yale’s Dr. Carlos Eire talks Christian history, martyrdom, pacifism verses self-defense and more. To hear on Spotify, click here!
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Oswaldo Paya w/David E. Hoffman [podcast]
Oswaldo Paya attempted to bring Cuba closer towards all the broken promises of Fidel Castro by peaceful, democratic means, which in the end cost Paya...
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Hip-hop, Cuba and God with Keren Kmanwey [English]
Keren Kmanwey is a Cuban-born rapper who took some time to discuss her artistry and personal journey with us recently. Do you remember when you...
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Hip-hop, Cuba y Dios con Keren Kmanwey [Española]
Keren Kmanwey es una rapera nacida en Cuba que recientemente se tomó un tiempo para hablar con nosotros sobre su arte y viaje personal. ¿Recuerdas...
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The Mariel Boatlift with Victor Triay [podcast]
In early 1980, a city bus crashed into the Peruvian embassy in Havana Cuba. Somehow this incident would lead to the mass exodus of over...
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The Dismal Presidency of Franklin Pierce with Dr. David Alvis
Franklin Pierce is not one of the better known presidents in U.S. history but is still worth examining if for anything the lessons that can...
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Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo
Former Cuban political dissident Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo is now a writer and blogger advocating for his home country’s liberation from the current oppressive regime....
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Reformations V with Dr. Carlos Eire
We’re going back to Europe, specifically France and Switzerland, and five hundred ago on top of that. Serving as our tour guide is once again...
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The July 11th Prisoners with Vicky Collado [podcast]
On July 11th of last year protests broke out all over Cuba over several issues, ranging from lack of food and medical access to the...
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Juana Rosa Pita’s Unfolding Miracle [podcast]
Poet Juana Rosa Pita returns to the Woodpile to talk about and read selections from her new compilation of poems, The Miracle Unfolds. In addition,...
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The July 11th Cuban Protests w/Victor Triay [podcast]
On July 11th of this year, the streets throughout the island of Cuba erupted with chants of “Libertad! Libertad!”. Immediately, both Cuban communist state media...
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Carlos Eire’s Flight From Cuba [podcast]
In the early 1960’s as the Castro regime began to transform Cuba into a socialist, militarist regime, part of that including training children to become...
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Reformations II with Dr. Carlos Eire
We’re back with another conversation about the Reformation with Dr. Carlos Eire, who not only teaches this time period at Yale University but wrote a...
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1980s Summers, Dances, Scarface and the Mariel Boatlift [podcast]
We’re back in the 1980s talking summer camps and trips, dancing, the film Scarface and the Mariel Boatlift. To hear on Stitcher, click here! To...
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The Plight of Denis Solis and the San Isidro Movement in a song
Cuban rapper Denis Solis was arrested by communist state security forces in November of 2020 and sentenced to prison for 8 months for “insulting” police....
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Sculpted Hope with Natalie Plasencia [podcast]
Artist Natalie Plasencia comes Back By the Woodpile to talk about her work, faith, the oppressed, her family’s escape from Castro’s Cuba and that time...
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Rosa María Payá [podcast]
Rosa María Payá is a human rights activist and founder of Cuba Decide, an initiative that is attempting re-introduce democracy to the Cuban island. She...
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Amplifying the Muted Voices of Cuba V [podcast]
(Silverio Portal Contreras blinded by Cuban police beatings and currently imprisoned for protesting against the communist regime) The American left’s hostility towards minorities who think...
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Tryna Herd Cats XXVII
Knowing others through their written words, trapped inside of time within a small room, enemies using your past words against you and other troubles are...
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Art, Poetry and Politics with Ricard Pau-Llosa II [podcast]
Professor Ricardo Pau-Llosa returns back to the Woodpile to share some of his poetry, his thoughts on some of his art collection and on the...
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Attorney Marcell Felipe on Human Rights and Liberty [podcast]
Marcell Felipe the both founder of the Inspire America Foundation– an organization dedicated to promoting democracy in Cuba and the Americas- and the Chairman of the...
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Jose Marti, Jewish Cuba and the Cuban Study Institute [podcast]
Dr. Jaime Suchlicki of the Cuban Study Institute comes Back By the Woodpile to talk Jose Marti, Eduardo Chibás, Jewish-Cuban History, the current state of Cubans...
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Cigar Snob Nicolas Jimenez [podcast]
Cigar Snob Magazine’s Nicolás A. Jiménez joins us to talk the history of cigars, Cuba, politics and a little about his own adventures both outside and...
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Bay of Pigs Veteran Bill Muir [podcast]
Bay of Pigs Veteran Bill Muir reflects on his life in Cuba before Castro, his work in the underground while the Communists ruled the country,...
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Cuba, Sugar and Helms-Burton [podcast]
Nicolas Guitierrez is a Cuban American lawyer who was directly involved in the drafting, passage and enforcement of the Cuban Liberty & Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD)...
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Talking Art Theory and History with Ricardo Pau-Llosa! [podcast]
Poet, writer, professor, art collector and critic Ricardo Pau-Llosa comes Back By the Woodpile to talk all these things and more! To hear on Stitcher,...
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Amplifying the Muted Voices of Cuba IV [podcast]
A brief history of Cuba, including Spanish rule, the revolutionary work of Jose Marti, the dictatorships of Fulgencio Batista, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, Operation Peter...
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Tryna Herd Cats XXIV [philosophical podcast]
Philisophical haggling of ideas! On this episode we talk the safety of loneliness, the last thoughts before execution, courage to protect others at one’s own...
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The Plight of Artists in Cuba [podcast]
Artists in Cuba are unable to express themselves freely without fear of reprisals from the Communist government. To help us learn their names and stories Babalublog.com’s...
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