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Casa Canada Cuba
ON A HUMID HAVANA NIGHT in the not-so-distant future, the sounds of a Cuban pianist rise into the summer air, paired with the smooth vocals of a Canadian jazz singer, before an intimate crowd at Casa Canada Cuba. The walls of the…
Whose Man In Havana?
Note de la redaction : Dans son livre Whi professionel et credible, et sur le réle de ce a cœur. Shauna Hemingway a rencontre lai generation d’agents du service extérieur.
Our Travels with Monty
The crazy things people will do for their pets is a truism that reaches new heights of absurdity for Foreign Service officers overseas. confess not to have undertaken any persuasive research to support that contention that would withstand scrutiny by even a…
Kenneth Bryce Williamson
As a young officer in 1955 I was assigned to work for Ken Williamson in the Eastern European section of European division. Because my older sister had been one of his classmates I was aware of his brilliant academic record at the…
Life in a Gilded Cage
It was late spring in Havana in 1969 when there was a knock on our door. There stood a short, elderly grey-haired gentleman whom we recognized after a moment as the doorman from the hotel we had stayed in some months earlier…
Havana Vignettes
Havana is a city of antiques. The cars are ancient, the buildings often ruinous and even el Presidente’s famous beard is now grizzled. I like antiques. They remind me of the past and the individual human stories that I can weave around…
Hunting Hemingway
For years rumors have circulated that the early history of the Canadian official residence in Havana was scandalous. A lover, an outraged husband, the third floor studio and flagrante delicto all figured in the house’s pre-Canadian history. Certainly visitors often remarked that…
Cubismo
Viche Petit nudged the Embassy’s vin age brıcklın around a line of heat crazed lambada dancers, gyrating frantically in the July sunshine, and through the gates of the Presidential Palace. “Now remember, Liebnitz.” he cautioned, “Don’t raise the subject of the OAS…
