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...
It didn’t take long for the people of Cuba to realize after the “revolution” of 1959, they were now under the rule of an even...
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...
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...
(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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Haitian history is what we’re learning all about on this episode and the Haitian Heritage Museum‘s Eveline Pierre is our professor! Join us as we talk...
Nicolas Guitierrez is a Cuban American lawyer who was directly involved in the drafting, passage and enforcement of the Cuban Liberty & Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD)...
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,...
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...
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...