Latest Cuba

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  Fitz: The 3,000 Who Stayed

  How does a poor Latin American country make a transformative medical revolution?
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  Golinger: My Country, My Love: a Conversation with Gerardo and Adriana of the Cuban Five

  It was nearly nine o’clock that Wednesday December 17, 2014...
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  Castro: The Cuban people will overcome

  Remarks by Fidel Castro Ruz during the closing of the 7th Party Congress
• Lamrani: How does US pursue ‘regime change’ in Cuba through ‘normalization’?

  US-Cuba relations and how these relations are the continuation of the past painful US policies against Cuba
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  Fitz: Cuba’s Medical Mission

  The Ebola experience is one of many covered in John Kirk’s new book Health Care without Borders: Understanding Cuban Medical Internationalism
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  Castro: Brother Obama

  We don’t need the empire to give us anything. Our efforts will be legal and peaceful, because our commitment is to peace and fraternity among all human beings who live on this planet
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  Street: Cuba Reflections: On Life and Death

  A Nice Surprise It’s not very often that you hear...
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  Cohn: Human Rights Hypocrisy: US Criticizes Cuba

  The hypocrisy of the US government in lecturing Cuba about its human rights while denying many basic human rights to the American people is glaring
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  Blum: CIA Motto: “Proudly Overthrowing the Cuban Government Since 1959.”

  Washington has maintained a blockade of goods and money entering Cuba that is still going strong
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  Boron: An open letter to Obama on his upcoming trip to Cuba

  I just returned from Cuba and the news of your...
• Shor: Cuba at the Crossroads, Again

  No discussion of Cuba’s contested socialist past and present can disregard the monumental achievements of the revolution, especially in education and health
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  Fernandez: Happy Birthday, Guantánamo

  Gitmo is an offshore penal colony that’s close enough to administer with ease, but far enough away to exist on the margins of legality
• Pérez, Jr.: Change Through Empowerment: A Half-Century of Cuba-U.S. Relations

  On the one-year anniversary of “D17,” exploring what has and will constitute “normal relations” between the U.S. and Cuba
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  Kelly: Flowers from Guantanamo

  Here in Kabul, young friends with the Afghan Peace Volunteers look forward to learning more about “The Tea Project”
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  Berrigan: Why I went to Guantánamo, again

  They are sick of being occupied, sick of being exploited, sick of Guantánamo being synonymous with torture the world over
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  Cohn: Close Guantanamo and Return It to Cuba

  President Obama has the constitutional power to shut down the prison there and return Guantanamo to Cuba
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  Blum: Are you confused by the Middle East? Here are some things you should know. (But you’ll probably still be confused.)

  The US, France, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar, and the Gulf monarchies have all in the recent past supported al Qaeda and/or the Islamic State (ISIS) with arms, money, and/or manpower
• Heitzer: Obama: Put Your Money Where Your Mouth is on Cuba

  We must pressure Obama to act decisively now to realize his promise to truly normalize relations with Cuba
• Sandels: Cuba: Notes on a history of best intentions

  There is nothing in the thinking of Lansdale and the Joint Chiefs about what Cuba actually is — its history, culture and aspirations
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  Street: Hope in Abandonment: Cuba, Detroit, and Earth-Scientific Socialism

  United Nations Human Development Index shows that Cuba is the only country on the planet to combine a standard of living and quality of life consistent with “high human development” with a globally sustainable carbon footprint