CUBA-UNESCO-HERITAGE-CULTURE-MUSIC-BOLERO

Cuban bolero singer Migdalia Hechavarria watches the TV during an interview with AFP at her home in Havana, on December 4, 2023. Dozens of global traditions are candidates for inscription as intangible global heritage by UNESCO this week, ranging from Italian opera singing and Bangladeshi rickshaw art to the Peruvian delicacy of ceviche. Other applicants include the "traditional skills of loincloth weaving" in Ivory Coast, as well as bolero -- "identity, emotion and poetry turned into song" -- from Cuba and Mexico. (Photo by YAMIL LAGE / AFP) (Photo by YAMIL LAGE/AFP via Getty Images)