Comments for Ateneo Art Cuba

Comment on Photos of Havana by Ateneo

Ateneo — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:54:51 +0000

Thanks Tracey. If you enjoyed these photos of Havana, I appreciate. Mucho.

Comment on Photos of Havana by Park

Park — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 23:48:12 +0000

Anonymous – My fatvoire!!!! Possibly my fatvoire portrait of anyone. Very soulful!with a very appropriate title .. that is quite the Cuban Queen Brings to mind the work of Annie Leibovitz . simply because you both have a way of capturing the real soul and personality of a person while giving the portrait your own definitive style. Tracey.

Comment on A visit to the studio of Lázaro Gutiérrez in Havana by Ateneo

Ateneo — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 12:56:44 +0000

Francilene, Cuba is certainly beautiful and amazing. One just has to travel there and one will fall in love with the island.

Comment on Photos of Havana by Ateneo

Ateneo — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 12:50:29 +0000

Hi Luis,
Are you being skeptical? No you are probably just questioning the reality we see around us. Many of your assumptions are correct, I have no doubt about it.
Cuba is poor because of the senseless policy of the embargo – it doesn’t work – except to keep ordinary people poor.
But more and more people go to Cuba on holiday and this does help the economy and some of it trickles down (but not much).
Cuba is a wonderful country and hopefully Americans will be able to travel there soon – because they are missing so much by not being able to travel there without hindrance.

Comment on Alicia Perera, Cuban Artist by Roosevelt Gochie

Roosevelt Gochie — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 11:15:23 +0000

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Comment on Photos of Havana by Luis

Luis — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 03:24:08 +0000

Thank you so much for bringing the plight of Cuba to our attention. The ordinary Cuban basically has nothing, but they still remain optimistic. On the one hand, people do actually communicate with each other. On the other, we have doctors quitting their profession because they may get more from tourism. Where is the justice? Although, here in England, a doctor usually chooses medicine as his/her profession in order to do good BUT could earn far more by selling their souls and working in finance or in the private sector. Good old Uncle Sam (America) keeps sanctions against Cuba and the rest of the world ignores Cuba’s plight. Tourists may go on holiday in Cuba but only see the nice parts. As humans, we should recognise each life is worth the same. We don’t know how lucky we are. The UK might be about to go into recession again and inflation is on the rise BUT, in general, our living standards are far better than these people. Cubans don’t have designer clothes, playstations or iPads. We should count ourselves lucky for what we do have.Sorry if I go on a lot but it makes me so angry that the Western world carries out its own injustice by choosing to ignore countries like Cuba & Palestine but is only too happy to intervene in Libya and Iraq. Oh, but they have OIL and the West can get contracts to rebuild the countries, or am I just being sceptical?!

Comment on A visit to the studio of Lázaro Gutiérrez in Havana by Francilene

Francilene — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 02:05:35 +0000

It really aoynns me that you guys really are that shallow to believe that Cuba even needs iPads?! I mean it’s probably one of the most respected place on earth in my opinion . And to judge Cuba because of its unpainted buildings and lack of supplies is the outcome of the ignorance and ugliness of america and England and Britain and new Zealand . All of those places are so unhappy that their bad attitudes are like illnesses. Cuba lack material because of the damned embargo, if America could just stand up and actually be the super hero country it calls itself maybe Cuba’s environment could change. But that doesn’t mean try to change the culture or perspectives of people living there. Plus it’s way worse in the ghettos in America then in Cuba. I believe Cuba is so beautiful and amazing that it makes you want to cry and ask whats happen to the rest of the world?! So for once in your life stop judging and do something worthy of yourself. And the worst part is that I’m not even Cuban , I’m from England.

Comment on Collage Art in Cuba by Nilton

Nilton — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 21:55:31 +0000

This is the perfect cnchae for Pres. Obama to End the Blockade of Cuba. Notice I did not use the false word of “embargo”! This is the longest economic siege in history bar none. 1960 to the present 50 YEARS.!!Then, the semantic juggling practiced by the U.S. government to deceive and confuse (propaganda} as regards its true intentions towards the Cuban Revolution, as a subversive strategy in the field of ideas. Possibly one of the best examples we can invoke to define the most important U.S.measure against the Cuban economy is the substitution of the word “blockade” with “embargo”. Their intentions are still very much alive today. If only the AVERAGE U.S. citizens knew what these terrible intentions really are .even right now. President Obama knows and I hope he has at least as much success with ending this Blockade as he had with his Medical Assistance program and his Cleaning Up Wall Street action. Congratulations on that Sir