Martial artist is a master of Chinese culture in Cuba

HAVANA - Every morning, 53-year-old Roberto Vargas Lee walks through the streets of Havana's Chinatown to a martial arts school that he founded over 20 years ago.

He has dedicated two decades to promoting the wushu discipline, along with qigong, a traditional Chinese exercise that exploits the human body's inner energy to achieve both physical and mental harmony.

When he was a child, his mother used to take him to her Cantonese opera performances at the Chung Wah Home, an organization made up of Chinese immigrants and their descendants.