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False Facts: The Cuban Gov. Campaign against Dissidents

The new communities of activists, journalists, artists and intellectuals grow in accordance with civil society itself and the private sector.

Dialogues and Monologues in Cuba

For a few hours, we saw the face of a critical Cuban youth that wants their country’s democratization without sacrificing sovereignty.

Cuba’s Repressive and Cellular Fever

The temperature of the repression in Cuba has risen like a fever during the days of the pandemic. It’s a systematic, cellular fever.

Mistaken Interpretations of the US Election

A look at the chief Latin American media shows the majority inclined to consider Joe Biden’s win as the least unfavorable option.

The Essence of McCarthyism

The phenomenon made famous by Joseph McCarthy is to disparage and neutralize any manifestation of the left.

Alicia Alonso and the Cultural Cold War

Recently passing away in Havana, classical ballerina Alicia Alonso and her art are a good example of the fact there had always been an aspiration in Cuban culture to conquer the West, which needed to be adapted during the Cold War to “real Socialism”, and resulted quite troublesome.

Nicaragua Left Without Witnesses

Ortega and Murillo are literally following a script that we have seen staged before in Havana and Caracas. Opponents and critics of authoritarianism, according to them, “conspire in favor of terrorism.” To publicly question the actions of the Government is to ally with “Yankee imperialism” and the internal enemies of something that the Government continues calling the “Sandinista Revolution”.

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.

Mistakes Made by Reviewer Samuel Farber

Every historian makes mistakes. Historian Samuel Farber makes very few and that’s why his books, such as The Origins of the Cuban Revolution (2006) are compulsory reading texts in contemporary historiography. However, I’m afraid I can’t say the same thing about Samuel Farber as a reviewer.

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.