Nicholas Shumaker in Havana: ‘I Felt Like a Character Straight Out of Midnight Express’
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 09.07.06 | 10:17 PM ET
American documentary filmmaker Nicholas Shumaker had his Cuban residency and work visa “abruptly revoked” a year ago. After Fidel Castro fell ill recently, though, he returned to Cuba and wrote an interesting dispatch about the experience for Slate. “Beyond the airport, life seemed to go on despite the transfer of power from Fidel to Raśl,” he writes. “Workers sucking on hand-rolled cigars crammed into the backs of open-top Jeeps. Women nursed their children, and in the fields, old men, shirtless or in tank tops, cut grass with machetes. And as a backdrop to this tired spectacle stood jingoistic billboards. Their messages are different than they were a year ago, though.”
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
