Pete Seeger's version of the Cuban song "Guantanamera" was released on his album "We Shall Overcome," recorded live at Carnegie Hall in 1963, in the year after the Cuban Missile Crisis. Seeger later… ...

I cultivate a white rose. Or, for that matter, the text from from the original fifth stanza: With the poor people of the earth I want to share my fate... Still, one can see how, in the late fifties ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. This week’s song has undergone quite a journey: from a 19th-century Cuban national hero to a 21st-century ...

With lilting, musical lyricism and gentle humor, “Guantanamera” fuses romantic comedy and social satire in a tale of sex, death and socialism in contemporary Cuba. Written and directed by Tomas ...