The Criminalization of Opposition Politics in Cuba
Cuba was once part of the longstanding Latin American tradition that sets apart political conduct and avoids reducing it to common crime.
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What’s Behind the Ongoing Controversy about “Centrism” in Cuba?
The call to “unity” around the Castro government has become ever more urgent with the gradual but definitive increase of Internet access, especially among the youth, the professional and technocratic strata, and among those with a university education…
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Book Review: The Politics of Che Guevara: Theory and Practice
The inevitable question has been haunting me: Why pick up another book about Che Guevara? It now joins with other urgent questions: What did the left do or not do to bring us to the current dark juncture? Could Cuba’s revolution have developed differently, and what would that have meant for world history? What vision does Che still have to offer?
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The Future of Cuba Depends on Us Cubans
According to radical socialists, the course of our destiny is to insist on the same model and to make concessions to Capitalism but just as a temporary measure, which they will then be overcome once conditions are more favorable. According to extremist liberals, all we need is democracy, a multi-party system and liberal capitalism, because everything will be miraculously fixed with these magic ingredients. For moderates, there are many different options.
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How Cuba Could Turn Socialist
Mainstream critics have for some time been arguing for the establishment of a free-market economy, which they present as the only “rational” alternative to the bureaucratic economic management of Communist Party rule.
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Cuba Solidarity and Looking the Other Way
They refuse to adopt a critical standpoint because of their shared anti-imperialist struggle, for “society” trying to build a better world and out of fear for losing the refuge this protector State gives those who take part in this fight.
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Reply to Rafael Rojas: More on “Fighting over Fidel”
I am glad that Rafael Rojas responded to my review of his book Fighting Over Fidel. Unfortunately, however, his reply practically ignored my main arguments and almost exclusively concerned itself with the least important points of my review.
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US Intellectuals Argue Over Cuba
It was — and still is — possible to criticize and oppose the social and political system established in Cuba while strongly reiterating opposition to US intervention whether it takes the form of military invasion, terrorist sponsorship, or economic blockade.
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The Struggle for Hegemony in Cuba
The 7th Congress of the Cuban Communist Party has left me in a state of shock, with the bitter impression that nothing in this country is going to change for a long time. But, one should not be deceived. It was nothing but a performance destined for a large audience.
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Relevant US-Cuba History on the Eve of Obama’s Visit to Havana
Not all of the opposition forces in Cuba are happy about the visit starting Sunday of US president Obama to the island. The same divide exists in the Cuban-American community in the exile stronghold of Miami.
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