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  • Cuba’s Slow Strangulation and the Empire That Can’t Stop Squeezing

    Cuba’s Slow Strangulation and the Empire That Can’t Stop Squeezing

    Some catastrophes arrive like explosions; others arrive like a hand on the throat that tightens, loosens just enough to keep the victim conscious, then tightens again. What is happening to Cuba now is the second kind. It is less a “crisis” than the logical endpoint of a relationship Ada Ferrer, in Cuba: An American History, […]

  • We’re Tired of Marco Rubio Speaking for Us

    “Put three Cubans in a room together, you’ll have five different opinions,” a Cuban friend of mine likes to joke. He was referring to debates in the town-hall meetings during Cuba’s constitutional convention process of 2018. But I immediately thought, of course, of any Nochebuena celebration at my dad’s house, just a few hundred miles […]

  • It’s Cuba’s Turn: Attacking US-Flagged Boats in the Caribbean

    This time, the appropriately designated shoe had found itself on the other foot. While the Trump administration has been gorily killing personnel on alleged “narco-boats” and vessels supposedly heading to US shores laden with illicit drugs, Cuba had its turn at engaging a boat with “a known history of criminal and violent activity”. On the […]

  • No Truth in the World – Part II

    Read Part I. Truth today is not measured by justice but by geopolitical convenience. Nations are told who to admire and who to despise, and the contradictions are suffocating. Castro vs. Mandela: Contradictory Legacies Fidel Castro: After the Cuban Revolution in 1959, the U.S. imposed an embargo in 1960, later tightened in 1962. Its original […]

  • Reflections on the Life of a Cuban-American Exile Hardliner

    “One should never speak ill of the dead,” so the old cliché goes about the recently deceased. Those with less inclination toward sentimentality, however, hold that this rule applies only to those who have lived a life exclusively in private and whose actions have had an effect only among their close-knit circle of family, friends, […]

  • Why Cuba Hasn’t Adjusted to US Sanctions after Six Decades

    Why Cuba Hasn’t Adjusted to US Sanctions after Six Decades

    For the thirty-second time in so many years, the US blockade of Cuba was globally condemned at the UN General Assembly’s annual vote in October. Only Tel Aviv joined Washington in defending the collective punishment, which is illegal under international law. For the vast majority of Cubans, who were born after the first unilateral coercive […]

  • Cuba under Intensified US Sanctions Confronts its Greatest Challenge

    Cuba under Intensified US Sanctions Confronts its Greatest Challenge

    The majority of Cubans support Castro…every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba…to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government. — Lester D. Mallory, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, 1960 Despite draconian coercive measures by the US – overwhelmingly condemned every […]

  • The World Say NO to US Blockade of Cuba

    At the United Nations this week, the world community has overwhelmingly spoken out against the relentless U.S. embargo on Cuba. Yet President Biden remains unmoved, stubbornly clinging to the anachronic policies that are deliberately and systematically causing harm to the well-being of more than 11 million Cubans. Despite the world’s condemnation of the blockade every […]

  • The Fuel Shortages in Cuba are Worse Than You Think

    The Fuel Shortages in Cuba are Worse Than You Think

    One hundred and fifty young people from the United States and Canada arrived in Cuba in late April 2023, just days before International Workers Day. As members of CODEPINK’s youth cohort, our goal was to understand the Cuban political system, the US blockade and its impacts on everyday life. We sat in a room upon […]

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