christmas in cuba

The Music in Cuba’s Christmas Celebration

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Cuba’s Christmas celebration is changing as a reflection of a broader evolution for Cuba to animate its past and invent a future. Christmas Eve remains overshadowed among Cubans by the New Years’ celebration – which happens to coincide with the day of the 1959 revolution – although many Cubans get together with their families for … Read more

A Recent History of Christmas in Cuba

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A Recent History of Christmas in Cuba

Forty six years ago, in 1968, Fidel Castro ended Christmas holiday in Cuba nine years after he led a Marxist guerrilla revolution to oust President Batista.   Interference with the sugarcane harvest was the official reason for the suspension. After Castro’s revolution, Cuba’s Catholic leadership declared Catholicism incompatible with communism. In turn, Castro viewed the church … Read more