Images de paysage cuba

Cuba se présente comme un pays socialiste, et se veut être une république unitaire des ouvriers et paysans et une république parlementaire – où le Parti communiste est le seul parti politique reconnu par la Constitution, qui le désigne comme « la force dirigeante supérieure de la société et de l’État ».

Fires in Cuba

Image by NASA Goddard Photo and Video
NASA image captured by MODIS on the Aqua satellite on April 2, 2010.

A number of fires dot Cuba in this image, captured by the MODIS on the Aqua satellite on April 2, 2010. The fires are marked in red; some of them show smoke plumes, like the one near the eastern part ofthe island.. Most likely this is a mix of relatively small and are likely to be a mixture of prescribed and wild fires.

The waters in this image are jewel-like: turquoise, bright blue, and emerald green near the islands, as well as the deeper blue of the Gulf of Mexico (left) and the Atlantic Ocean (right). The brighter colors surrounding the Bahamas (the islands north of Cuba) are caused by the relatively shallow waters over the Little and Great Bahama Banks, which are shelves of land that were submerged as the continental glaciers of the last ice age melted. The brightly-colored waters around Cuba and Florida’s tip (visible at the top of the image) could be a consequence of shallow waters, but could also be colored by a larger presence of microscopic marine organisms, such as algae and phytoplankton, which lend a darker-green tinge to the water.

To see more information related to this image go to: modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/individual.php?db_date=2010-0…

NASA/GSFC/Jeff Schmaltz/MODIS Land Rapid Response Team

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Creole Choir of Cuba

Image by Stuart Madeley
Performing at WOMAD Charlton Park on Sunday 31st July 2011

At home in Cuba the choir is known as Grupo Vocal Desandann (the Descendants’ Choir) referring to their Creole ancestry and heritage which originated in Haiti. They performed beautiful harmonies and solos in the warm glow of the sun setting over Charlton Park.

The rest of my shots from WOMAD 2011 are here
www.flickr.com/photos/stuartmadeley/sets/7215762730707539…

« The best pina colada in Cuba »,

Image by andreakw
according to the staff at the Parque Josone bar. It was delicious but I would have liked it more without the liberal layer of fresh cinnamon. And on that note, we end the set and fly home to a Toronto winter.

Varadero, Cuba

Cuba sans Fidel Castro ? Depuis un certain temps toutes les interrogations et les prévisions semblent se concentrer autour d’un seul événement : la disparition de celui qui a personnalisé la révolution cubaine pendant près d’un demi siècle. La mort de Castro serait la clé de l’évolution, ou de la disparition, d’un système collectiviste et autoritaire qui régente l’île depuis 1959.