CUBA

Traveling to La Isla 21 times in the four-year interim between Obama loosening relations and Trump closing them, I felt a natural communion with the people as I bore witness to their high wire act; watching as they endlessly, tirelessly, gracefully! negotiated this tightrope strung between hope and resignation. Like many from the US, I’d long dreamed of visiting the island to experience its energy and spirit. Little did I know when one intends to capture Cuba, it is Cuba that often does the capturing.

Today, in 2023, after the pandemic, and after the broken promises of our current U.S. administration to return to Obama-era relations—and even expand them—the struggle of the Cubans inside their island continues, no one there nor here can predict what will happen in the next many years.