It looks as though the US blockade/embargo policy towards Cuba is going to be relaxed considerably in the near future. What happened with the objectives of the harsh sanctions as time went by? Were they accomplished?
Read MoreThe arrest of several members of the opposition at Havana’s Plaza de la Revolucion some days ago ruined the hopes for a 2015 of joy for all Cubans. There is no shortage of repressive measures against dissidents taken by the island’s government.
Read MoreI don’t know a single analyst who predicted the magnitude of the accords reached in the negotiations between Cuba and the USA.
Read MoreI support the action sought by Tania Bruguera in Cuba in the same way I support the demands represented in Spain by Pablo Iglesias (of Podemos); understanding that there is no contradiction between supporting one and the other. Freedom of expression is an inalienable right that we should allow whatever the opinion that is presented and the reasons why it is done.
Read MoreAre we yanquis or yankees? In my small state of Connecticut (pop. 3.5 million), we have been both. The Dutch word janke was popularized by Mark Twain and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’ Court. It wasn’t until the 1960s that we learned the slogan “Yanqui Go Home.”
Read MoreIn this timid first approach between Cuba and the United States, what makes me almost more indignant to watch all those two-bit opportunists, the world’s most obsequious and pusillanimous figures that could be found in the market of cowardice.
Read MoreThe “artistic” performance that Tania Bruguera had planned to stage on Tuesday (Dec. 30) in Revolution Square was the first of many foreseen attempts to derail the process of normalization of diplomatic relations between the USA and Cuba, announced by Washington and Havana on Dec. 17.
Read MoreCuban society has experienced the class struggle in a particularly intense manner. In 1961, the government announced it was building socialism. Currently, this same government has undertaken a program of reforms allegedly aimed at updating the system and making socialism “prosperous and sustainable.”
Read More“On December 17, 2014, Washington and Havana agreed to a pathbreaking change in a relationship that, for more than fifty years, was characterized by US efforts to overthrow the Cuban government, including the sponsorship of invasions, naval blockades, economic sabotage, assassination attempts, and terrorist attacks,” notes Samuel Farber.
Read MoreUSAID operations in Cuba were like spoiled apples that made everything around them rot. They turned the opposition into “mercenaries” on the empire’s payroll and government critics into the “naïve” who fell into enemy traps…
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