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The Day Cuba Was Lost

Tired of the sad situation on the island, people placed all their hopes in the victorious “26th of July Movement,” led by Fidel.

Paradoxically, democratically elected governments can dismantle the institutional framework that allowed them to come to power…

I’m maladjusted. I was educated to work in a world that doesn’t exist – that of a genuine socialism that battled with Western capitalism.

This week the Matraca artists illustrated their desires and predictions for 2024.

Cuba hasn’t had a good year for a long time, and it doesn’t seem that 2024 will be any different.

The window of opportunity presented to the opposition in this stretch of the Venezuelan political crisis may be tiny if not taken advantage of…

The year 2023 left a series of proper names. These are some of them, in a useful exercise to also envision the themes and scenarios of 2024

The most complete sign of this limbo are the “pre-migrants,” all those Cubans who have stopped their lives waiting to leave the Island.

A clear majority rejects the two wars, in Ukraine and Gaza, but the positions of the great powers prevent progress in favor of peace.

So what explains the success of far-right, anti-immigrant parties in countries with a long history of being relatively liberal & inclusive.