Jose Emmanuel Piaggesi was a teacher in Argentina, but now the piercing staccato of gunfire punctuates his conversations.
Tanks rumbled through Havana's Revolution Plaza and jets tore through the sky on Saturday as Cuba commemorated its victory over a U.S.-backed invasion at the Bay of Pigs 50 years ago and prepared to hold its first Communist Party Congress in nearly 14 years.
Under Fidel Castro's rule, golf was all but eliminated in Cuba, but the bourgeois sport of the West is poised for a comeback on the communist-run island.
In 2009 Jobson was an unknown Brazilian striker making little impact with struggling South Korean club Jeju United. Homesick and unable to adapt, he was offered the chance to move back home on loan to Botafogo of Rio -- where he changed the course of the Brazilian Championship.
CNN's Shasta Darlington reports on the zombie revolution as Cuban filmmakers shoot "Juan of the Dead."
An eerie silence hangs over Havana's main sea-front avenue as smoke drifts out of a lone abandoned car.
Cuba commemorated the 57th anniversary Monday of the attack that started Fidel Castro's revolution, but President Raul Castro did not speak, unlike in the previous three years.
They don't wear masks or capes, but the filmmakers behind the World Cinema Foundation are arguably the superheroes of film.
Martin Scorsese on the World Cinema Foundation and his work in preserving classic films from around the world.
As the 2009 Cannes Film Festival draws near, filmmakers who have made the event's short list hope that their films will be blessed with that hard-to-earn Cannes buzz, which could lead to awards and financial success.
A new book examines the iconic photograph of Che Guevara, made famous around the world. Brian Byrnes reports.
It is the most popular photograph in history: Argentine revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara stares pensively at the horizon, his steely eyes shielded behind a thick beard and his trademark beret. The shot -- taken by Cuban photographer Alberto Korda in Havana on March 5, 1960 -- turned the charismatic and controversial leader into a cultural icon.
Over the last decade, Steven Soderbergh has taken the "one for them, one for me" concept of film-director politics to an almost comically programmatic extreme.
I was 5 years old and my dad and I were on our way to the neighborhood bakery to buy a loaf of bread. It was early on the morning of January 1, 1959. A stranger stopped us on the deserted street right outside our second-floor apartment.
Steven Soderbergh made certain his new movie, "Che," about the life of revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, couldn't be attacked -- at least on a factual level.
"Che" director Steven Soderbergh discusses his latest film, an intricate and lengthy look at Ernesto Guevara.
Georgia Keightley strolled through the religion section at Barnes and Noble in Springfield, Virginia, on Monday searching for a last-minute Christmas gift.
Actor Benicio del Toro brings "Guerrilla," a film about Che Guevara, to Cuba. CNN's Morgan Neill reports.
"Che" the movie met Che the myth in Cuba this weekend, and the lengthy biopic of the Argentinean revolutionary won acclaim from among those who know his story best.
Hans Ertl, who helped shape the official visual record of Hitler's regime, left behind a veritable archive - in a shoe box
What T-shirt should you wear when you need to blend in with terrorists? Incredibly, we have an answer to that question.
Colombia showed video Friday of an orderly mission that ended in hugs and laughter for 15 hostages who were rescued from a Colombian guerilla group this week.
Government agents posing as rebels tricked a gang of armed desperados into handing over 15 hostages during a rendezvous deep in Colombia's unforgiving jungle.
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe speaks about the hostage rescue that freed 15 people.
His is one of the most famous faces in the world -- a symbol of dignity and reconciliation for many.
"Au secours!" is one of the first phrases you will find in French travel dictionaries but I have never heard it used -- until now. It's 1.15am and we have just locked an elderly French lady in a lift, so the phrase is now being used in its most urgent form.
The French film The Class takes top honor and Clint Eastwood's Changeling stands out in a mostly disappointing year
The guerrillas of FARC reveal that their founder, a character straight out of a Garcia Marquez novel, has died. Will his fearsome rebellion perish with him?
There has been a distinctly Latin flavor to this year's Cannes Film Festival.
The two American directors are back on the Riviera - one for the world premiere of his Che Guevara bio-pic, the other to give a film "master class"
Despite making his name at relatively quiet Italian club Livorno, Cristiano Lucarelli has always attracted attention -- he's openly political on his communist beliefs and is a huge admirer of Che Guevara. So in many ways, it wasn't surprising that he was lured to Ukraine, of all places, by a jaw-dropping pay packet from Shakhtar Donetsk.
The price of sin rose Monday in Venezuela where President Hugo Chavez is on a campaign to make Venezuelans cut back on drinking and smoking.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez broadcasts a rare live phone call from Cuba?s Fidel Castro. CNN's Morgan Neill reports.
Che Guevara has been a symbol to many after his death. CNN's Morgan Neill is there while Cubans celebrate his life.
Synonymous with Cuba, just like Castro and Che Guevara, cigars are revered by connoisseurs and part of the country's political landscape.
Nowadays both Lenin and Lennon are commemorated in statue in Havana. It's perhaps not surprising; after all, music and politics are synonymous with Cuba and its famous capital. Cuba may be one of the last bastions of Communism, but Castro's twilight years have seen the Caribbean island adopt a more friendly face after its long, lonely years as a Cold War warrior. The country that once almost pitched the world into atomic conflict is now happy to accept tourist dollars. These days Che Guevara, the poster boy of the Revolution, is as much a photogenic salesman for Caribbean beach holidays and Havana city breaks as countercultural icon. Ever since "Buena Vista Social Club" and its spinoffs launched Cuban artists into the mainstream, the island has also reaped the rewards of its rich musical heritage with groups such as Buena Fe among its most successful exports. Narrowly separated from the mainland U.S. by the Florida Straits, Cuba was an American obsession long before the 1959 Revolution. Theodore Roosevelt
On Saturday evenings, all of Istanbul seems to stroll along Istiklal Caddesi, a pedestrian avenue in the Beyoglu district. Couples, packs of young men, and extended families share the sidewalks with lottery ticket vendors, men roasting corncobs on street carts and café singers belting pop tunes.
Cuban President Fidel Castro was undergoing intestinal surgery and provisionally handed over power in the Communist island nation to his younger brother Raul, according to a statement read on Cuban television Monday night.
Most people know somebody who claims to be "tone deaf." Now scientists in the UK are using the Internet to conduct the largest ever investigation into the musical listening disorder.
There's no doubt that the recent immigration rallies attract very big numbers. But if you're trying to measure the political impact of such protests, history teaches us that...size isn't everything.
He has been described as the next Che Guevara, the next Hugo Chavez, the next Fidel Castro. Evo Morales, a former coca growers' union leader and the new President of Bolivia, has pledged to nationalize his country's oil and gas industry, redistribute privately owned land, and decriminalize the coca leaf, a staple of Bolivian indigenous culture as well as the prime ingredient in the manufacturing of cocaine.
Diego Maradona is back in hospital after eating something he should not have, one week after discharging himself after heart and lung trouble.
In which your correspondent, egged on by hardly anybody, resumes his still unexplained habit of windily propounding questions guaranteed to remain unanswered. -- How could the mighty American media...
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