Juana Bacallao, a Cuban singer, died on February 24 at the age of 98. The figure of the popular singer, who died last February, is key to understanding what the island was and is.

She not only symbolizes Cuban folklore: the choteo, the debauchery, the revelry. Her greatest merit was, through her character, showing a naked Cuba. That reality, the great enemy of Fidel Castro since he assumed power of the island, was punished: she was relegated for more than three decades to the cabarets.