Late 90s were a very interesting phenomenon that internationalized traditional Cuban music and become a cult over the next two decades: the birth of Buena Vista Social Club, which gathered in a collective project several stars of the island, and gave the world the obvious worth of Cuban music made in the island during more than six decades and at that time had not reached maximum broadcasting in the country. The Buena Vista Social Club (BSC) bid farewell to the stage with two recent concerts at the Karl Marx theatre by leaving behind a trail of questions and lessons, especially for those who somehow are related to criticism, promotion and recording of Cuban music.

Lecture on June 2^nd 2016, in Havana, during the 7^th Summit of the Caribbean States Association. 

As we know, the most conventional definition of the Caribbean is the one from the Bahamas Islands to Trinidad and the continental enclaves like Belize, Guyana, Suriname and the French Guyana. There are authors who state that the notion of a Caribbean Region was invented by the United States at the end of the 19^th century as the result of its economic and military expansion in the area.