Check out this month-old photoblog called A Glimpse of Cuba, on daily life in la Habana, by a man named Roy Llera. Llera runs a photography business in heavily anti-Castro Miami; images from A Glimpse of Cuba are among many nice pictures posted at his site. On this post, he suggests having run into the unpleasant forces of government while on the island. Here, Llera attempts for a poetic visual allegory of anti-Castro politics.
* Read the Communist government's official news source in Granma in English, also available in French, Portuguese, German, and Italian. Wikipedia info here on Castro opposition, also discussed in fine detail in Didion's "Miami." That's a very good book review link from the NYT.
** In Mexico City last year, I got to catch a show of contemporary art from Cuba at the Museo de la Caricutura, with excellent paintings and multimedia works. There was a video piece -- I wrote the info down somewhere -- about a woman getting her house re-done, "Extreme Home Makeover," Cuba style. The show was a part of the city's book fair. The invited guest cities from the Spanish-speaking world were Havana and Los Angeles.