Cubana de Aviación

Cubana de Aviación S.A., commonly known as Cubana, is a national airline based in Cuba, as well as the country's largest airline. It was founded in October 1929 (1929-10), becoming one of the earliest airlines to emerge in Latin America. It has its corporate headquarters in Havana, and its main base is located at José Martí International Airport. Originally a subsidiary of Pan American World Airways and later a private company owned by Cuban investors, Cubana has been wholly owned by the Cuban government since May 1959 and celebrated its 80th anniversary in 2009.

Cubana was a founder and is a current member of the International Air Transport Association, the International Association of Aeronautical Telecommunications (SITA) and the International Association of Latin American Air Transportation (AITAL).

History

Early years to Cuban revolution

The airline was established on 8 October 1929 as Compañía Nacional Cubana de Aviación Curtiss S.A., initially as a flying school as well as a charter carrier, beginning scheduled services in 1930. The airline's name indicated its association with the Curtiss aircraft manufacturing company. Cubana's early fleet used Curtiss Robin, amphibian Sikorsky S-38, Ford Trimotor, and Lockheed Electra (L-10) aircraft. Pan American acquired Cubana in 1932, and the word Curtiss was deleted from the carrier's name. By the end of the decade, the carrier had a fleet of four Ford Trimotors and three Lockheed Electras that operated on the domestic Havana–Camaguey, Havana–Guantanamo–Baracoa and Santiago–Baracoa routes.

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China Daily 18 Aug 2018

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Carmen La Cubana review – a spirited ensemble

The Guardian 12 Aug 2018

Carmen, the heroine of Bizet’s opera, is restless. She won’t be stilled or silenced. This fast-moving musical version sends her to Cuba on the cusp of change in 1958, fomenting Castro’s revolution. The history of Carmen is one of cultural appropriation – always dunked in someone’s idea of a thrillingly exotic other ... No one here is scared to work their hips ... • Carmen La Cubana isat Sadler’s Wells, London, until 18 August .......

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Carmen La Cubana review – Carmen goes to Havana

The Observer 12 Aug 2018

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Grammy-award winning singer Albita lights up Cuban...

This is Money 08 Aug 2018

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Carmen La Cubana review – revolutionary makeover is a bumpy but heady ride

The Observer 03 Aug 2018

Carmen La Cubana is a 2016 Cuban makeover of Oscar Hammerstein’s 1943 Carmen Jones, itself an African American reimagining of Bizet’s 1875 opera, in turn based on a metropolitan Frenchman’s torrid ......

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Carmen La Cubana, Sadler’s Wells, review - A fast-paced, high-energy staging

The Independent 03 Aug 2018

Created by British director Christopher Renshaw, Carmen La Cubana follows a template set by Carmen Jones, Oscar Hammerstein II’s 1943 musical update ... There’s a new narrator, La Señora, who sets the scene and evokes Cuba’s santería religion – a clunky device, though Albita Rodríguez makes up for it with ... Carmen la Cubana at Sadlers Wells (Nilz Boehme)....

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Carmen La Cubana

British Theatre Guide 01 Aug 2018

Review by Howard Loxton The company with Albita Rodriguez as La Señora ... Carmen La Cubana brings together multiple talents from Britain, the US and Cuba ... The transition to Cuba works well, the evening introduced by a Santerían priestess, La Señora (Albita Rodríguez) who predicts a tale of love, fate and death....

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Periodico Cubano

ZDNet 03 Jul 2018

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Campaign Intensifies to Indict Raul Castro for Deadly 1996 Shoot-Down of Exile Planes

Hamodia 28 Jun 2018

Last weekend, the Assembly of Cuban Resistance (Asamblea de la Resistencia Cubana), a coalition of various exile groups, took to the streets of Hialeah and Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood to collect more signatures on a petition to indict Castro not only for the shoot-down but also for “crimes committed with his support and intervention in Venezuela and now in Nicaragua.”....

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The Salt Lake Tribune 22 Jun 2018

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