Cuba Reaffirms Socialism While It Reckons With Its Private Sector
Seventy years have passed since Fidel Castro and a daring group of young Cubans launched an assault on the Moncada Barracks in eastern Cuba, aiming to topple the Fulgencio Batista…
Manolo De Los Santos
U.S. Tells Another Bedtime Story to Scare Away Normal Relations With China and Cuba
by Manolo De Los Santos and Kate Gonzales Addressing allegations of “Chinese spy base” in Cuba. On June 8, the U.S. media added to its long storybook of tales to scare…
Young People From the U.S. Travel to Cuba and Break the Siege
by Manolo De Los Santos and Kate Gonzales It’s a hot and crowded Tuesday morning in the Yoruba Cultural Center in Havana, and the air sticks to the skin. You can…
Peru’s Oligarchy Overthrows President Castillo
June 6, 2021, was a day which shocked many in Peru’s oligarchy. Pedro Castillo Terrones, a rural schoolteacher who had never before been elected to office, won the second round…
Cuba Goes on a Diplomatic Tour in an Increasingly Multipolar World
On November 27 morning, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, walked into a voting station in the Playa neighborhood to vote in Cuba’s municipal elections. He had landed in Havana an hour earlier from an intense…
Cuba in the Eye of Washington’s Hurricane
Hurricane Ian lashed at western Cuba on September 27, 2022. I waited desperately for a phone call from my friends in Puerto Esperanza, a small fishing village on the northern coast of…
Cuba’s Nonalignment: A Foreign Policy of Peace and Socialism
Though Bandung in Indonesia and Havana in Cuba couldn’t be farther apart geographically—with each city located on two distant islands in their respective countries and separated by more than 17,000…
‘We Will Prevail’: A Conversation With Cuba’s President Miguel Díaz-Canel
In 1994, Miguel Díaz-Canel began a new position in Santa Clara, not far from his birthplace of Placetas, as the provincial secretary of the Cuban Communist Party. He set aside…
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