The El Guasabeo Hummingbird Family — Figures of Cuban Culture.

It's a zunzún, the smallest and most stubborn hummingbird in the world, the one in Cuba we learned to look at like family: small, yes, but incapable of standing still, incapable of giving up, always flitting between one flower and the next as if life were a matter of never stopping. If there's one animal that sums up the Cuban character, it's the zunzún. And that's why one wasn't enough for us. We needed a whole family, because Cuba doesn't fit into a single character either. Each of them has their own Cuban t-shirt, their sweatshirt, their cap — available in our online Cuban culture store.
So here they are, introducing themselves one by one, each with their clothes, their attitude, and their particular way of wearing their Cuban identity.
"El Chapas" is the one who fixes things. Wrench in one hand, screwdriver in the back pocket, his shirt torn from getting under an engine that wasn't his but he fixed anyway. There's no nut he can't loosen, no problem he can't find a solution for. He is the neighborhood ingenuity made feather and beak: he turns what isn't there into what is needed.
"El Nagüe" is the root, the one who hasn't lost the slow pace of the countryside even after years away from it. Yarey hat, checkered shirt, a machete on his shoulder like someone carrying a cane. He speaks little, but when he speaks, he knows. He is the agricultural memory of the island, reminding us that before being from here or there, we were from the land.
"El Ecobio" is the brother not born of the same blood, but it doesn't matter. Flip-flops, chains, towel over the shoulder after a glorious swim in the sea. It's the word used to say "I trust you" without having to use those exact words. Relaxed, sociable, the one who always has time to sit and talk even if he's in a hurry.
"El Conguero", the one who carries tradition, religion, son and salsa in his blood, the one with the cajón for the Saints, who livens up the party in the solar, who keeps our music alive, learned from the hands of his elders, those who once rewrote our way of enjoying dancing.
And "El Consorte" is the urban flavor, the one who moves with a gold chain and a cell phone in hand, a grocery bag in the other, looking at life with that exact mix of mischief and affection that only someone who has walked those streets understands. He is the one who negotiates, the one who connects, the one who knows that survival can also have style.

In the end, there is more than one way to be Cuban, and no two are entirely alike, because that's also how the island is: it doesn't fit into a single mold. Each t-shirt that features one of them is not just a funny drawing. It's a way of saying which of those characters you carry within, or which ones you all carry at once, as most of us do. Find your zunzún at El Guasabeo — Cuban clothing store for the diaspora. Shipping to Spain, the United States, and worldwide.