The CCCNY opens its Spring Season with Cuba en USA, Emilio Cueto’s latest work on his never-ending quest for Cuban footprints around the globe. Cueto offers an invaluable documentation of the long, broad, and profound presence of the Caribbean island in the United States, through prints, images, and all kinds of objects from his collection of Cuban memorabilia. The deluxe-bound edition, fit to grace any collector’s dream bookcase, is a journey through the North American geographic space in search of the marks left by the Pearl of the Antilles in the land of Uncle Sam.
The author’s illustrated lecture will be followed by a Q&A with the audience. The presentation will be held in Spanish, with simultaneous English translation through earphones.
INSTITUTO CERVANTES
211 East 49th Street, bet. 2nd & 3rd Aves., NYC
FREE ADMISSION for MEMBERS ONLY
of CCCNY or IC
[Image above: © Rio Grande Guardian]
Emilio Cueto is a Cuban-American attorney, collector, and independent scholar. A retired attorney based in Washington, D.C., Cueto previously worked for the Inter-American Development Bank. He earned his J.D. from Fordham University Law School. He also holds an M.A. 
in Political Science from Columbia University and a B.A. in Political Science from the Catholic University of America. He earned his high school degree from Colegio Belén in Havana. Cueto is an expert on Cuban culture and history, especially colonial graphic art and music. As an avid seeker and guardian of Cuban memorabilia, he presently holds in his home one of the largest private collections in the world of Cuban-related material, including newspapers, maps, artworks, books, prints, scores, LPs, videos, and posters. He is the author of several books about Cuba, in both English and Spanish, including La Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre en el alma del pueblo cubano (2014), and Mialhe’s Colonial Cuba (1994), among many others. His works have appeared in books such as Madrid habanece: Cuba y España en el punto de mira transatlántico (2011); Paseo pintoresco por la Isla de Cuba (1999); and Narrativa y libertad: Cuentos cubanos de la diáspora(1996). He has also published articles in periodicals such as Cuban Studies, Diario Las Américas, Espacio Laical, Herencia, El Nuevo Herald, Opus Habana, Palabra Nueva, and Revista de la Biblioteca Nacional José Martí. In addition, he has organized six concerts related to Cuban music at Florida International University, as well as the now legendary 2010 Merkin Hall concert on the ‘Music of the Cuban Wars of Independence’
for the Cuban Cultural Center of New York.
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