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What follows are some photographic highlights from members of our group-from the stunning architecture, breathtaking surroundings and vibrant arts scene, to the many artists we enjoyed along the way. Particularly bittersweet was the news of the tornado that touched down in the country’s capital a few days following our return, and it is in the spirit of solidarity and friendship that we dedicate this blogpost to the resilience of the Cuban people.

This immersive experience spanned a broad range of activities, extraordinary music, dance and visual art, visits to schools, conversations with leading cultural and academic leaders, and was capped by the 34th International Jazz Plaza Festival in Havana. But you may not know that SFJAZZ also embarked on a remarkable journey to Cuba weeks before, for an eight-day adventure curated by yours truly for 17 travelers in partnership with InsightCuba. On Sunday that featured countless videos streamed out of Cuba from all across the island, showing tens of thousands of Cubans protesting their government’s repression and mismanagement while shouting “No tenemos miedo!” - We’re not afraid! - riding the momentum of hashtags like #SOSCuba.2019 has begun with a distinctly Cuban flavor at SFJAZZ, highlighted by our spectacular Gala honoring legendary pianist and bandleader Chucho Valdés last month with our Lifetime Achievement Award, followed by a weekend of performances by the newest incarnation of supergroup, Irakere 45. Or even angrier, unprecedented scenes of Cubans overturning police cars and shouting insults at cops. Inside Cuba, that content burned across social media platforms like fuses, igniting powder kegs of frustration in more than a dozen cities and towns over issues like chronic shortages of food, medicine and electricity.

Outside Cuba, especially in Miami, the unrest raised hopes of regime change. READ MORE: Cuban Socialism Meets Social Media. This Summer It's a New Revolutionīut late Sunday it looked as if the government had shut off the world’s view of the protests by shutting off the internet. Monday morning, few abroad knew if the protests were continuing. Until many heard of a young Cuban exile in Panama named Alain Rodríguez, who calls himself a Cuban influencer and goes by the name Alain Paparazzi Cubano on his YouTube show.Ĭubans here in South Florida noticed Paparazzi sharing protest videos people sent him from Cuba on Monday.

#ALAIN RODRÍGUEZ PAPARAZZI CUBANO HOW TO#

But watching his online show, they couldn’t figure out how.ĭespite those disturbing images, Rojas says the fact that Cubans somehow got video and other content to Paparazzi that day means this: They know how to use social media as well, if not better, than the regime knows how to control it. 'So couple its highly skilled word-of-mouth, neighbor-to-neighbor tradition with internet technology, and now suddenly an Alain Paparazzi is creating tunnels providing information like this to us on a VPN.” “Cuba has survived 62 years without much communication,' Rojas noted. Other Cubans here say they’re not convinced Paparazzi created a VPN tunnel - and advise viewers and mainstream media to scrutinize content coming through outlets like Paparazzi's program. WLRN reached out to Paparazzi in Panama but he did not respond. 'If some of these 'secret connections' were really doable, I think the U.S. Government would have exploited them a long time ago,' said Guennady Rodriguez, a Cuban immigrant in Miami who runs the website 23yFlagler – meaning the virtual corner of 23rd Street in Havana and Flagler Street here in Miami.

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