By: Nelson Valdes Before 1898 Cuba was a nation without a state. It had a colonial status but also had an evolving national culture and identity, an emerging nationhood and its own history. […]
XINHUA: Cuban agriculture threatened by worst drought in 115 years
Tue Aug 25, 2015 6:42 am (PDT) . Posted by: “La Alborada” Cuban agriculture threatened by worst drought in 115 years English.news.cn – Aug 25 HAVANA, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) — Cuba’s agriculture is being threatened […]
Growing Momentum to Repeal Cuban Embargo
NYT August 3, 2015 In 1962, the year Bob Dylan released his first album, Marilyn Monroe died of an overdose and Nelson Mandela was imprisoned, the American government began imposing an economic […]
Statement by the Revolutionary Government of Cuba & President Obama’s Letter to Cuba’s President
July 1, 2015 With the reestablishment of diplomatic ties with the United States, the lifting of the blockade, among other issues, will be essential to the ultimate normalization of relations. On July […]
NYT: Leading Cuban-American Business leader & Bush’s Commerce Secretary makes A Republican Case for Obama’s Cuba Policy
June 23, 2015 Washington — I WAS born in Havana in November 1953, about six years before Fidel Castro led a revolution in Cuba. In July 1960, my family fled to the […]
BBC Special on Cuban Ballerina Lorena Feijoo
Click here for the full broadcast Lorena Feijoo is a principal dancer with the San Francisco Ballet. Lorena was born into the world of ballet in her native Havana. Her mother was […]
Seven key points in U.S.-Cuban Relations
Although talks between the U.S. and Cuba are in themselves a milestone for two countries which have lacked formal ties for more than 50 years, they only mark the beginning of a […]
AlJazeera: Cuba’s Medical Magicians
Robert Kennedy | 01 May 2015 06:14 GMT Havana, Cuba – “You’re disgusting – so gross,” Libia Batista Mora told her doctor after he saved her life by sucking fluid filling her lungs […]
US Policy on Cuba: From Regime Change to Systemic Change
Regardless of other changes in US policy on Cuba, President Obama still thinks the United States has the right to shape the future of its neighbor and will work toward reinforcing a […]
Whither Cuba?
The US strategy for undoing the Cuban Revolution was laid down in the Eisenhower years in this April 1960 State Department guideline: “[E]very possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the […]
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