Elina Salabarría was 18 months old when she left Cuba with her parents, and 18 years old when she represented Cubans in exile in the Miss Universe pageant, which was held on July 15, 1967, at the ...

For the first time in 57 years, Cubans will have a representative in the Miss Universe contest. The queen, who will be chosen in Miami, will be “the most high-profile and anticipated woman of this ...

Gisselle Rosales Sánchez, a Cuban who arrived in Ecuador at age 7, was crowned Miss Ecuador 2025 and will represent the country at Miss International 2026, to be held in Japan in November next year.

Few photographers have been able to capture the mystique and forbidden lure of contemporary Cuba like Cynthia Carris Alonso. The New Yorker, a veteran photojournalist whose work has appeared in the ...

VARADERO, Cuba — Sitting in the shade of a coconut palm, Jackie Haddad points to the aqua waves rolling ashore to explain why she and her husband returned to Cuba for the fourth year in a row. “It’s ...

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