Roots Of Hope

Raices in the News

• Getting Cuba Connected

  Source: Good Magazine
  Interviews from the Alliance of Youth Movements summit: Roots of Hope.
  
   

• Big changes in Miami’s Little Havana

  Source: The world
  Correspondent Ruth Morris reports on the emergence of new, moderate voices in Miami’s Cuban-American community. They tend to be young and interested in dialogue with their peers living in Cuba.
  
   

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  The future of Cuba. Nicole Lapin and Tony Harris talk to Cuban-American Felice Gorordo about the future of Cuba for the next generation.
   

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• Tower Theater Showcases Documentary on Cuban Painter Humberto Calzada

  A documentary directed by Eduardo Montes-BradleyPresented by The Heritage Film Project, WPBT- Channel 2 and Miami Dade College2009, 27 min. Digital projection. Not Rated.This documentary, based on the life and works of Cuban-American artist Humberto Calzada, captures the extraordinary means by which human tragedy becomes the canvas of unique Caribbean experience.Thursday, January 7, 6:00
  
  
   

• "A Type of Cuban Craigslist"

  From The New York Times, we get word of Revolico, a classified ads site inspired by Craigslist and tailored for Cuba: [...]There are no classified advertisements in the Communist Party newspaper Granma or the other state-run publications that circulate in Cuba. Rather, sales are made through Radio Bemba, which is not a radio station at all but the country’s extensive gossip network, which takes