This past weekend, the group took a vacation to Trinidad, a small city in Central Cuba. The coastal town, ornate with colonial architecture and cobblestone streets has historical roots in the sugar industry. With colonial sugar plantations came centuries of slavery, and all the atrocities the introduction of slavery brings to a people and nation. […]

On a recent excursion to Trinidad, we took a short trip outside the city to visit a sugar plantation that has now been converted into a historical tourist attraction. We stopped on the way to admire the large expanses of fertile land, imagining the fields covered in slaves cutting sugar cane. The plantation consisted of […]

Carlos Díaz, one of Havana’s most renowned stage directors and member of the ISA’s first graduating class, is known internationally for his provocative and eccentric plays that often involve sex and nudity. Before meeting him last Monday, our class read an analysis of one of his recent plays, Las Relaciones de Clara, which explores the […]

A recurring joke throughout the semester has been the creation of a Cuba Yelp page with reviews of restaurants, paladares, bars, venues and clubs. Usually our hypothetical ratings are low in the category of consistency, but high in ambiance. Cuba’s capital has only recently become a bustling city of privately-owned businesses; only a few years […]

This week the Lewis & Clark Alternative Spring Break (ASB) group arrived in Havana. They were here for ten days, and in that limited time they got to grapple with numerous Cuban realities and were able to see this space as the intellectual playground that it is. It was simultaneously bizarre and refreshing to have […]