WebsiteStephen Kimber is the award-winning author of one novel and nine books of nonfiction, including What Lies Across the Water: The Real Story of the Cuban Five (Fernwood, 2013). That book won the 2014 Evelyn Richardson Award for nonfiction from the East
Coast Literary Awards, was long-listed for a Libris Award as best nonfiction book published in Canada in 2013, and the Spanish edition won a Reader’s Choice Award from the Cuban Institute of the Book as one of the top ten best-selling books in Cuba in 2016. His new novel, a love story based partly in Cuba and partly in Canada, will be published by Vagrant Press in Fall 2020.
Cuba’s ambassador to Canada described it as “the most important [academic event] held outside Cuba” to consider the state of the Cuban Revolution after its first 60 years. And “The Cuban Revolution at 60” — last week’s major international conference at Dalhous... More »
On the early afternoon of June 16, 2017, Jeffrey DeLaurentis, the United States ambassador-designate to Cuba, sat in his office in Havana and watched TV as recently elected Donald Trump ripped up what the new US president called the Obama administration’s “ter... More »
When someone in the audience asked Dalhousie University neuroscientist Dr. Alon Friedman whether his conclusion — that Canadian diplomats in Havana had become ill after exposure to an insecticide used to fumigate against Zika virus — was “a fact or a theory,” ... More »
In 2015, early on in negotiations to reestablish relations between the United States and Cuba, an interviewer asked Cuba’s then-chief negotiator, Josefina Vidal, if the ongoing process of rapprochement could still be reversed. “My response then was that, ‘of c... More »
Nova Scotia’s long relationship with Cuba will be celebrated on Friday, Nov. 1, with the dedication of a recently planted tulip tree (liriodendron tulipifera) near the Cenotaph at Grand Parade in Halifax. Halifax Mayor Mike Savage and Cuba’s ambassador to Cana... More »
Dizziness, blurred vision, memory loss, problems focusing… Something serious seemed to be affecting US diplomats in Havana in late 2016 and 2017. But what? And who — or what — was responsible? The new Trump administration, without evidence, blamed the Cuban go... More »
On the one hand, Cuba is a climate change “hot zone,” a poor country with decrepit infrastructure staring into the face of all manner of climate change calamities: sea-level rise, droughts, monster storms, coral bleaching, etc. On the other, thanks to Cuba’s o... More »
Jeffrey DeLaurentis began his 27-year State Department career as a consular officer in the United States Interests Section in Havana 1991. Twenty-five years later — after two more diplomatic postings to Cuba, including one as head of the US Interests Section, ... More »
Take one former U.S. ambassador to Cuba, one former Cuban chief negotiator with the U.S. and Canada’s foremost medical expert on the “Havana Syndrome.” Mix in 40 international academic experts on everything and anything Cuba-related — from the intricacies of t... More »
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