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Website. holaotaola .com. Alexander Otaola Casal (pronounced; AE-luhg-zAEn-der Oh-Ta-OuhLa) (born April 28, 1979) is a Cuban-American actor, social media influencer, humorista and political activist. [1] Otaola is the host of the web show Hola Ota-Ola!, an informative and satirical program that covers entertainment, news and politics.
A CDR in Old Havana on Paseo de Martí facing Parque Central. Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (Spanish: Comités de Defensa de la Revolución ), or CDR, are a network of neighborhood committees across Cuba. The organizations, described as the "eyes and ears of the Revolution," exist to help support local communities and report on ...
A local musical house, Casa de la Trova in Santiago de Cuba. Cuban culture is influenced by its melting pot of cultures, primarily those of Spain, Africa and the indigenous Taínos of Cuba. After the 1959 revolution, the government started a national literacy campaign, offered free education to all and established rigorous sports, ballet, and ...
Servando Arango "El Chino". The Sexteto Habanero was a Cuban son sextet founded in 1920 in Havana. It played an important part in the early history of the genre, contributing to its popularization all around Cuba. In 1927, the band incorporated a cornet player becoming the Septeto Habanero. Although most original members left in the 1930s, the ...
The Cuban exodus is the mass emigration of Cubans from the island of Cuba after the Cuban Revolution of 1959. Throughout the exodus, millions of Cubans from diverse social positions within Cuban society emigrated within various emigration waves, due to political repression and disillusionment with life in Cuba. [1] [2] [3]
The Palacio de Bellas Artes (Palace of Fine Arts) is dedicated exclusively to housing Cuban art collections. Spanning the 17th and 19th centuries, it has rooms devoted to landscape, religious subjects and the Costumbrismo narrative scenes of Cuban life. A gallery devoted to the 1970s is marked by a preponderance of Hyperrealism and the latest ...
Gusano ( lit. worm, fem. gusana) [1] [2] is a slur used to refer to Cubans who fled Cuba following the rise of Fidel Castro after the Cuban Revolution. [3] [4] The term has connotations referring to the Cuban revolution's Marxist political philosophy in which the use of the term "worm" can imply a parasitic relationship to the working class.
His books, La Africania de la Musica Folklorica de Cuba (1950), and Los Instrumentos de la Musica Afrocubana (1952 - 1955) are still regarded as key references in the study of Afro-Cuban music. Ortíz's grave at the Cementerio de Cristóbal Colón in Havana, Cuba. Fernando Ortiz died in Havana in 1969 and was interred there in the Colon Cemetery.