White-haired, thin and bent at nearly 90, Fidel Castro in person is a faint echo of the man who remade his country, defied the United States and fueled socialist uprisings around the world.
Tag Archives: Cuba
Cuban Cattle Country Keeps Up Rodeo Traditions
Photos by Ramon Espinosa In the Cuban countryside, many children learn to ride a horse before they tackle a bicycle.
Fidel Castro’s Home
Photos by Ramon Espinosa At the end of a dirt road lined with fields of sugar cane, royal palms and tropical fruit trees, a cluster of wooden houses painted in brilliant yellow, blue and white draws thousands of Cuban and international tourists a year.
US Hardware Arrives in Cuba to Protect Hemingway Possessions
Photos by Desmond Boylan Just before noon outside Ernest Hemingway’s Havana estate, a metallic screech cut through the chirping of tropical birds and the sound of a live band entertaining tourists.
Pictures of the Week
Highlights from the weekly AP photo report, a gallery featuring a mix of front-page photography, the odd image you might have missed and lasting moments our editors think you should see.
Pictures of the Week
Highlights from the weekly AP photo report, a gallery featuring a mix of front-page photography, the odd image you might have missed and lasting moments our editors think you should see.
Cuba’s Tobacco Country Becomes Tourist Attraction
Photos by Ramon Espinosa Unseasonably heavy rains have damaged Cuba’s tobacco crop and raised questions about iconic cigar brands that some aficionados hope will not suffer from declining quality amid higher demand.
Daily Life Around the World
Our Daily Life series is a visual exploration of everyday imagery from around the globe.
Cuba’s Old Trains Offer Fine-Grained Look at Country Off the Beaten Track
Photos by Ramon Espinosa From east to the west, trains offer a fine-grained, slow-moving view of Cuba that few foreigners ever see.
Cuba Countryside Games
Photos by Ramon Espinosa Cuban cowboys celebrate the island’s long-standing rural traditions with countryside games and dances.
Cuba’s Tourism Blues
Photos by Ramon Espinosa This 500-year-old city smells of fresh paint and varnish.
Daily Life Roundup
For this week’s installment of AP’s Daily Life series, we feature photography from all over the world: A lone man shelters himself from the rain while crossing a bridge in Spain, a group of Pakistani children jostle to receive free food in Islamabad, and an American flag beach towel hangs on a makeshift clothesline, on a balcony inContinue reading “Daily Life Roundup”
February 27, 2015
Cuba’s Horse Business
Photos by Ramon Espinosa Already renowned for fine rum and fancy cigars, Cuba is carving out a new luxury niche that is attracting Latin American elites to the communist-run island: elite jumping horses.
Cuba Flower Vendor
Photos by Ramon Espinosa Yaima Gonzalez Matos lost her job in human resources at a state-owned enterprise three years ago. So she joined the ranks of Cuba’s small class of entrepreneurs and became a wholesaler in the island’s new private flower business to support herself and her son, now 11.
Cuban Dancers Return Home
Photos by Franklin Reyes On November 4, 2014, AP photographer Franklin Reyes Marrero died in a car accident while returning from an assignment west of Havana.
Photographer Franklin Reyes: 1975 – 2014
An Associated Press photographer in Cuba, Franklin Reyes Marrero, has died in a car accident while returning from an assignment west of Havana.
Daily Life Roundup: Oct. 22, 2014
For this week’s installment of AP’s Daily Life series, we feature captivating photography from all over the world: A cyclist rides along Forbidden Drive in Philadelphia, Palestinian school children walk through destroyed houses in Gaza City, and A Portuguese fisherman pulls a net out of the sea on the Caparica coast.
Cuba’s Violin Shortage
Photos by Ramon Espinosa In a light-filled workshop cluttered with tools and pieces of old string instruments, three men carve strips of imported wood and silently measure the angles of violin pegs and viola necks bent out of tune by years of use.
APTOPIX Roundup: Oct. 3, 2014
Throughout the day, Associated Press photo editors comb through and designate a selection of the most newsworthy and visually breathtaking images as APTOPIX.
Cuba On The Beach
Photos by Ramon Espinosa In the long, sticky Cuban summer, keeping cool is serious business.
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