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The book by historian Ada Ferrer untangles myth from reality in Cubas past with the United States. It also sparked a personal odyssey for me.

A review by Rod Jackman of Black Flag Boricuas: Anarchism, Antiauthoritarianism, and the Left in Puerto Rico, 1897-1921.

Canada's former Ambassador to Cuba looks at the challenges the U.S and Cuba will face as relations begin to thaw.

By a Cuban activist inside Cuba.

Antiwar.com Original The Embargo On January 25, 1960, President Eisenhower suggested that the US navy "quarantine" Cuba. "If they are hungry," the President fumed, "they will throw Castro out." His ambassador to Cuba, Philip W. Bonsal, chided him with a moral reminder: "We should not punish the whole Cuban people for the acts of one abnormal man." Less than a year later, that moral restraint had disintegrated. In October, the US banned exports to Cuba except food and medicine...

Shirk is chair of the department of political science and international relations at the University of San Diego. He lives in University Heights. Recent anti-government protests in Cuba pose a new test for the Biden administration. Responding to Cubans’ calls for “homeland and liberty” (patria y libertad) is not, however, a new dilemma in U.S. foreign policy. Indeed, deciding what to do about Cuba is an age-old question that illustrates the core dilemma in U.S. foreign policy: whether to...

SPEECH BY THE PRESIDENT OF MEXICO, ANDRÉS MANUEL LÓPEZ OBRADOR, ON THE 238TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF SIMÓN BOLÍVAR, THE LIBERATOR 26 julio, 2021   I am grateful for the presence here of Isabel Allende, a great Chilean writer who accompanies us in this event to pay homage to the Liberator Simón Bolívar, to recreate his project of unity among the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean, and to rely on history to better face the present and the future. My friends, Born in...

Monday February 22, 2021 - 12:13:00 PM Resuming a project begun under the Obama administration, following a review process, President Joe Biden will seek to close the Guantánamo Bay Detention facility, opened in January 2002 to hold people suspected of ties to al-Qaida and the Taliban. A total of 780 prisoners have passed through Guantánamo, and the 40 remaining include alleged Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his four co-defendants. About a quar...

By February 12, 2021 —  Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — Cuba — perhaps more than most other countries — has been the victim of imperialism and colonisation.   The greatest impact of imperialism and colonisation is on people, in particular, indigenous people. Cuba is no exception. There are also other lasting impacts. Marxist political economists Paul Baran ( The Political Economy of Growth, New York: Monthly Review Press, 1957) and André Gunder Frank ( Capital...

The Role of the Media in the Cuban Revolution: Resource-Mobilization Theory and Cultural Framing Abstract On January 1st, 1959, a small band of Cuban rebels shocked the world, overthrowing the American-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista. These rebels were especially known for their guerrilla tactics and their leaders, such as Fidel Castro and Ernesto “Che” Guevara. Yet, aside from these military tactics and leaders, the Cuba rebels also tactfully utilized the media. Notably, Castro’s force...