Pete Seeger's version of the Cuban song "Guantanamera" was released on his album "We Shall Overcome," recorded live at Carnegie Hall in 1963, in the year after the Cuban Missile Crisis. Seeger later… ...

Although Cuba will not be taking part in the World Cup finals this year (they haven’t qualified since 1938), a certain Cuban tune is guaranteed to make an appearance. “Guantanamera”, beloved of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. This week’s song has undergone quite a journey: from a 19th-century Cuban national hero to a 21st-century ...

The Mavericks and guest vocalists perform "Guantanamera" to a lively crowd in Havana. The Mavericks, with guests vocalist Lisset Diaz of Sweet Lizzy Project, vocalist Ivette Cepedea, Eliades Ochoa on ...

I cultivate a white rose. Or, for that matter, the text from from the original fifth stanza: With the poor people of the earth I want to share my fate... Still, one can see how, in the late fifties ...

Chasqui publishes scholarly articles in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Quechua, among other Indigenous languages, that focus on significant theoretical issues in the analysis of Latin American and ...