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...lawyers, work for the state. And state bureaucracies never move quickly; Cuban officials were slow to recognize the commercial potential of homegrown hip-hop. Indeed, the members of Orishas became so frustrated that they relocated to Europe when a French producer offered them a contract. Their album A Lo Cubano sold more than 400,000 copies in Europe and spawned countless bootlegs in Cuba. Orisha member Ruzzo says, "Cuba is still my home, but when you are offered a record contract, you take...
Orishas CUBA Combines lyrical wizardry with traditional Afro-Cuban rhythms to make cutting-edge hip-hop. Key album: A Lo Cubano...
Today Menoyo is back in the opposition, this time against the leadership of the Cuban-American community that cheered his arrival. In 1993 he formed Cambio Cubano, Cuban Change, a group dedicated to a peaceful transition to postcommunist rule in Cuba. For Menoyo that requires dialogue with Castro-or as exile hard-liners would put it, fraternizing with the enemy...
Many share the desire of Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, founder of a more moderate and less monied organization called Cambio Cubano (Cubans for Change), to see a more measured policy toward the Havana regime, including direct negotiations with Castro to encourage a phased-in democracy. Says Menoyo: "We want the people to emerge from this with their lives, liberty and their rights. The measures that Clinton is taking serve only to make 11 million Cubans -- everyone except Castro -- suffer." He complains that his organization cannot get Washington's ear because it has less money and political influence than Mas Canosa...
What do you call a cuisine that offers plantain flan, mango tabbouleh and a boniato-yuca torta? Miamamerican cooking? Nuevo Mundo cuisine? Nuevo Cubano? Whatever the tag, Miami chefs are winning applause with fresh fish, tropical fruits and exotic root vegetables, eclipsing the now hackneyed blackened- everything cuisine that emanated from New Orleans in the early '80s. Bits of many cultures make up the local hybrid, including updated Latin, Italian and Oriental dishes. Grilling, influenced by Caribbean barbe, is an essential technique. Not-too-sweet, not-too-tart salsas, mojos and adobados based on local fruits are vital flavoring ingredients...