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The Criminalization of Opposition Politics in Cuba

January 17, 2021January 17, 2021 Circles Robinson 1 Comment Samuel Farber

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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Opinion 

What’s Behind the Ongoing Controversy about “Centrism” in Cuba?

September 14, 2017September 18, 2017 Circles Robinson 31 Comments Samuel Farber

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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Opinion 

How Cuba Could Turn Socialist

October 19, 2016October 26, 2016 Circles Robinson 1 Comment Samuel Farber

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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Opinion 

Reply to Rafael Rojas: More on “Fighting over Fidel”

August 10, 2016August 15, 2016 Circles Robinson 1 Comment Samuel Farber

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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Opinion 

US Intellectuals Argue Over Cuba

July 18, 2016July 22, 2016 Circles Robinson 10 Comments Samuel Farber

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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Opinion 

Relevant US-Cuba History on the Eve of Obama’s Visit to Havana

March 19, 2016March 24, 2016 Circles Robinson 3 Comments Samuel Farber

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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Opinion 

Where can Cuba go from here?

June 19, 2015June 25, 2015 Circles Robinson 11 Comments Samuel Farber

When in the 1950s, I became involved in the struggle against Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista, one of our teachers remarked that we had no real reason to criticize the state of our country because so many other nations in the region — such as Bolivia and Haiti — were much worse off than us.

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Opinion 

Should Cuba Remain a One-Party State?

June 5, 2015June 9, 2015 Circles Robinson 6 Comments Samuel Farber

In Cuba the one-party state is a very controversial question that few of the left-wing critics of the Cuban regime have been willing to address. What follows is an attempt to explore, from the left, some of the issues around this topic.

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Features Opinion 

The Special US Immigration Policy for Cubans

April 22, 2015April 27, 2015 Circles Robinson 9 Comments Samuel Farber

The US and Cuba have finally resumed diplomatic relations. The rapprochement has also refocused attention on the fifty-year-old American policy that allows Cubans to immigrate to the United States in unlimited numbers, a “privilege” not conferred upon citizens of any other country.

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Opinion 

The Alternative in Cuba

December 27, 2014January 3, 2015 Circles Robinson 12 Comments Samuel Farber

“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.

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