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Superpower, the u.s. instead of keeping the focus on the cuban people who are on the streets. and i think that they are where our attention should be. >> yeah. and when i spoke to that protester, he told me he did not want the united states to intervene. he said this is our fight for cuba. >> right. >> ada ferrer, thank you so much for spending time with us this morning. we appreciate your insight. >> thank you for having me, boris. >> of course. you can watch more of that interview i had with the senate foreign relations chairman bob menendez later this morning. he talks about what he is tell...

[Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] History Today presents the viewpoints of “four distinguished scholars [who] consider a historical question of enormous contemporary resonance:” Carla Gardina Pestana, Marlene Daut, Stephen Wilkinson, and Ada Ferrer. ‘The Caribbean became a focal point of rivalries among Europeans, a location where imperial contests were fought’ Carla Gardina Pestana, Author of  The English Conquest of Jamaica: Oliver Cromwell’s Bid for Empire (Belknap Harvard, 2017). The Caribbean ushered in the modern world. Most infamousl...

Carla Gardina Pestana, Author of The English Conquest of Jamaica: Oliver Cromwell’s Bid for Empire ( ). The Caribbean ushered in the modern world. Most infamously, it was the site of full-blown racial slavery – a horrific institution founded on the commodification of people as objects of exploitation – which was perpetrated on a massive scale. The Caribbean population intermixed not just European, African and indigenous American, but also housed a great diversity from within Europe itself. All the groups that crossed the Atlantic from Europe came to the West Indies, setting up rival c...

Save this story for later. Since 1975, Cuba’s ruling Communist Party has periodically convened a congress at which, in keeping with the arcane rituals of socialist states during the Soviet era, the Party makes public official policy guidelines. This year, the eighth congress ended after a four-day session that was arguably its most momentous: it coincided not only with the sixtieth anniversary of the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, which led to the breakdown in relations with the United States and helped to precipitate the Cuban Missile Crisis a year later, but also with a historic curtain call ...

Skepticism and a shrug: Cubans greet the end of 62 years of Castro rule Ruaridh Nicoll in Havana © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Yamil Lage/AFP/Getty Images News travels swiftly through Havana, bumping against people so they turn, then rolling on. Cubans have a phrase for it: la bola en la calle, the ball in the street . Raúl Castro’s announcement on Friday that he is to retire and bring 62 years of Castro rule on the island to a close caused barely a ripple, even if it sent waves around the world. Cubans were expecting it, and for those battling to buy food in w...