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Study Spanish and Culture in Cuba!
Cuba Girasol and Estevez Travel are pleased to once again offer our Cuban Culture and Spanish Language Program. Learn Spanish at the University of Havana and experience Cuban culture by participating in a comprehensive program with various Cuban institutions and community projects.
Our Cuban Culture and Spanish Language programs strive to offer participants a unique opportunity to study Spanish at one of the most prestigious universities in Latin America and the Caribbean. Additionally, students have direct contact with a range of grassroots and non-governmental organizations, volunteer-run environmental and cultural projects and educational and health institutions.
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Cuba Girasol and Estevez Travel invite institutions of higher education to organize academic and cultural programs in Cuba for undergraduate and graduate students. We also offer faculty programs and consulting trips for study abroad coordinators and professors interested in organizing short or full semester educational programs. With more than 10 years experience coordinating programs for prestigious universities and colleges, we have built a solid academic and cultural network that allows us to provide services beyond the typical tourist package.
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We strictly adhere to the Cuban Assets Control Regulations administered by the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). Although these regulations prohibit U.S. citizens to travel to Cuba, in the year 2011, OFAC eased the restrictions, expanding opportuntiies for people to travel under general and specific licenses.
Under the general license you may travel to Cuba as a professional researcher attending a conference; as student, faculty or staff of an accreditated U.S. higher education institution; as a journalist and to visit close relatives or participate in a religious activity.
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HAVANA FILM FESTIVAL 2012
DECEMBER 2 - 12, 2012
International Festival of New Latin American Cinema
The Havana Film Festival promotes and awards those works whose significance and artistic values contribute to enrich and reaffirm Latin American and Caribbean cultural identities.
We are currently customizing a program for qualified participants. Please contact us for more information This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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11th HAVANA BIENNIAL 2012
MAY 11 - JUNE 11, 2012
"Art Practices and Social Imaginaries"
The Havana Biennial is a great opportunity for art professionals and students to explore contemporary art from Cuba and developing nations around the world.
We are currently customizing a program for qualified participants. Please contact us for more information This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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You can disagree with violent anti-Castro dogma, but such dissent could also get you killed – or your business torched as happened on April 25 to Airline Brokers Co. Some Cuban exiles apparently take free speech so seriously that they punish those who use it in “inappropriate” ways.
Miami has witnessed countless incidents for five plus decades where those who consider their own views on how to bring freedom to Cuba as so pure and irreproachable, that anyone who challenges their doctrine merits a bomb, a bullet, or an accelerant.
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VIVA FIDEL, I mean down with Fidel… Oh, whatever!
WEDNESDAY, 11 APRIL 2012
By Alvaro F. Fernandez Progreso Weekly
Fidel Castro is still the most influential person in Miami. And in 2012, aside from the fact that he still wields a certain amount of power in Cuba, a retired, aged and frail Fidel may have more juice here in the exile capital, than even in Havana. His name in Miami begets the most primal reactions from regular people on the street, which then translates to a fear that is not so subtly attached to anything Castro.