The Rolling Stones backstage before their concert at Ciudad Deportiva on March 25, 2016 in Havana, Cuba. Photo by Dave J Hogan/Getty Images. All rights reserved.
It looks as if the island is once again at the centre of history. Once again, sadly: a hurricane comes and devastates the sugar plantations, the houses, and it all has to be raised back again. But who would dare to contradict the feeling that the planets are aligned once more in the Caribbean?
Barack Obama landed in Cuba to turn around a history of bad relationships and melt the last remnants of the Cold War theatre of operations. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People’s Army (FARC), headed by the guerrilla leaders aliasTimochenko and Ivan Márquez, and the Colombian government met in Havana with US Secretary of State John Kerry and received the support and encouragement from Washington to walk the remaining little stretch to put an end to the fifty-year old bloody armed conflict. As a symbolic closing ceremony, the Rolling Stones Ltd. were presented to a crowd in Havana's Sports City. "Half a century later," the Cubans were saying, thrilled by the light and sound power and the figures walking across the stage. Thousands of smartphones, probably purchased with money sent by relatives living in the US, recorded the concert scenes. They will be saved together with the certainty that this was the night it all began to change really fast.
