Destination: Caribbean
Documentary Looks at Jamaica Tourists Don’t See
by Jim Benning | 02.08.02 | 1:56 PM ET
“Life and Debt,” a new documentary showing in limited theaters, examines the effects of globalization and institutions such as the World Bank on post-independence Jamaica. The film “contrasts the hard lot of Jamaicans with the luxurious tropical fantasy paradise experienced by tourists who arrive in posh Montego Bay and never see the grim shantytown realities of Kingston,” reviewer Kevin Thomas writes in today’s Los Angeles Times.
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Yahoo! BuzzHow Will Tourism Change Cuba?
by Michael Yessis | 02.07.02 | 1:54 AM ET
Salon’s Damien Cave weighs in on Cuba’s tourism policy and how it might alter the country in the near future. “Could Castro’s ‘tourism apartheid’ inspire the kind of dissent that would threaten his regime?” he writes. “Might the attempt to court tourism become a catalyst for democratic change?”
A Tribute to “Old Man” Gregorio Fuentes
by Michael Yessis | 01.31.02 | 1:18 AM ET
Stephen Kinzer details the impact of the life of Gregorio Fuentes, the inspiration for Ernest Hemingway’s “The Old Man and the Sea,” on Papa and the travelers who made pilgrimages to his home in Cuba in a New York Times story. Fuentes recently passed away. He was 104.
R.I.P. “Old Man” Gregorio Fuentes
by Jim Benning | 01.16.02 | 1:23 AM ET
Travelers to Cuba have long made pilgrimages to the home of Gregorio Fuentes, Ernest Hemingway’s boat captain and the inspiration for “The Old Man and the Sea.”
For a small fee, Fuentes welcomed any and all into his living room in Cojimar, a salty fishing village near Havana, and regaled them with tales of his time with the writer. But the visits have come to an end. On Sunday, the 104-year-old Fuentes died in his home. The Los Angeles Times reports.
How Low Can You Go?
by Michael Yessis | 01.16.02 | 12:50 AM ET
When a flamboyant Aruban limbo master picks him out of a crowd, Michael Yessis gets a reminder that traveling as a guest sometimes means being a little flexible
“I Have Actually Thrown Punches at Cubans”
by Michael Yessis | 08.31.01 | 9:05 PM ET
Havana Homecoming
by Leslie Berestein | 05.02.01 | 1:11 AM ET
Photo courtesy Leslie Berestein Her family left Cuba when she was 3. Decades later, Leslie Berestein visits her old neighborhood, knocking on doors, searching for her Cuban self.
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