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Could a movie about Ernest Hemingway end the US economic embargo on Cuba?

An international co-production about Ernest Hemingway’s life in Cuba has become the first full-length feature with a Hollywood cast and crew to be shot on the island since the 1959 revolution. Bob Yari’s Papa finished shooting in Havana last month

The last days of casa Castro

In a 1998 episode of The Simpsons, Fidel Castro calls his advisers into his office and tells them: “Comrades. Our nation is completely bankrupt. We have no choice but to abandon communism.” Castro’s advisers, downhearted, let out a collective sigh.

Letter from Cuba, on the hunt for Hemingway

Hurricane Paula was somewhere between the Yucatan Peninsula and the Cuban state of Pinar del Rio, which is another way of saying in the middle of my flight path, which is why my plane to CancĂșn was grounded and I