Latest Cuba

• Nahem: Cornered: Trump Gets Thumped on Cuba at the UN

  The 2018 UN vote against the US blockade strengthens Cuba’s position in this volatile and explosive period in world and Western Hemispheric politics, and in the international class and national liberation struggles, that are now unfolding
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  Prashad: How Disaster Capitalism Has Ruined Puerto Rico

  And what Cuba can teach the world about going a different route
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  Fitz: When Cuban Polyclinics Were Born

  As discontent increases with overly expensive and totally inadequate US health care, it is time to look closely at the beginnings of the modern Cuban medical system
• Lamrani: Five Questions Concerning the Presidential Elections in Cuba

    Who is the new Cuban President and how was...
• Fernandes: Trump’s Cold War Towards Cuba

  The State Department announced a tightening of the US economic embargo against Cuba, which hurts average Cubans and reverts to failed Cold War policies
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  Benjamin: Trump Cracks Down on Cuba

  "Our failed embargo against Cuba has been repeatedly and publicly condemned by the international community as ineffective and harmful to the people of Cuba."
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  Prashad: A tale of two islands

  One island, a poor socialist state with infrastructure in grave need of modernisation, has slowly emerged out of the chaos caused by a hurricane’s wrath, while the other, a territory of the richest country in the world, cannot see the light at the end of the tunnel
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  Prashad: A revolutionary power to heal

  Fifty years after Che’s death, the ideas that keep his legend alive
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  Stedile: Che and his legacy

  El Che, Symbol of the Humanist and Socialist Struggle
• Marcetic: Before the Hurricane

  Cuba is a world leader in hurricane preparedness and recovery. What can we learn from the small island nation?
• Jones: Visiting Cuba as an Act of Civil Disobedience

  I didn’t go to Cuba to be a tourist. I...
• Babbitt: The Bell Tolls for Ana Belén Montes

  At the World Social Forum at Puerto Alegre, Brazil, the...
• Rodríguez Parrilla: Cuba will not make concessions

  Press conference by Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, minister of Foreign Relations of Cuba, in Vienna, Austria, June 19, 2017
• Jackson: Trump turns back on Cuba

  Surely, after more than five decades we have learned that Cubans, proud of their revolution and their independence, will resist economic or military coercion
• Kramer: Found in Cuba

  Putting Trump in Perspective by Going Offshore
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  Hynes: Cuba Reflections

  One hallmark of Cuba’s achievements is its free health care system, recognized as one of the best in the world, as well as the primary care it provides in poor communities throughout the world
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  Zunes: Fidel Castro left Cuba a green legacy

  While he no longer held any formal position of power...
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  Falk: On the Death of Fidel Castro

  I have been bemused by the captious tone and condescending...
• Gleijeses: In fighting against apartheid, Cuba defended “the most beautiful cause of mankind”

  The passing of Fidel Castro at 90 years of age...
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  Cohn: The Remarkable Legacy of Fidel Castro

  History has absolved, and promises to continue to absolve, “El Comandante” Fidel Castro