Maria Teresa was born in 22 March 1956 in Marianao, Havana, Cuba, to José Antonio Mestre y Álvarez (Vedado, Havana, 1926–1993) and wife (m. Vedado, Havana, 1951) María Teresa Batista y Falla de Mestre (Vedado, Havana, 1928–1988), both from bourgeois families of Spanish descent. The Mestre family have as their...

Ok, you’re in Havana, a city that used to be renowned--back in the 1950s--by its night life. And you really want to hang out a little, meet locals, inhale some of the town’s spirit, and get a little bit intoxicated.

Didn’t you see the shrine? The goathead and the dolls? The flowers? The seawind? This is witchcraft. Woman witchcraft. Heavy. And you’re part of it and you don’t know it.

Ante el Yankee Stadium evoqué inolvidables momentos y conmigo se hizo realidad el sueño de grandes hombres como mi padre, Juan Antonio, el Nene, Filingo, Pinin, Armandito, Servilio, Charles, apasionados del béisbol, quienes me enseñaron que la vida es como un fly rompenubes hacia lo corto del center field, donde se debe correr siempre adelante, condición primigenia para que no nos traicione la mano enguantada del tiempo.