By JULIA PRESTON | FEB. 12, 2016 LAREDO, Tex. — They are crossing the border here by the hundreds each day, approved to enter the United States in a matter of hours. Part of […]
NYT: Tension Simmers as Cubans Breeze Across U.S. Border
WHY THREE POPES IN 20 YEARS?
A brief historical analysis from a veteran of the Cuban revolution, which parallels the analysis that Jeremy Scahill did for the Catholic Worker, over a decade ago. WHY THREE POPES IN 20 […]
U.S. – Cuba relations have always been far from ‘normal’
Online Athens – Aug 23 By Louis A. Perez Jr. / Tribune News Service U.S.-Cuba relations are still far from normal — and may never be. Secretary of State John Kerry has […]
A Friend from Havana commented on John Kerry & The Opening of the U.S. Embassy in Havana
Click here for the video! Below is the email from a friend in Havana on August: “It was a beautiful sunny day, and the sea in the background was exhibiting its most […]
Cuba Removed From US Terror List
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MAY 29, 2015, 2:34 P.M. E.D.T. HAVANA — The Obama administration on Friday formally removed Cuba from a U.S. terrorism blacklist, a decision hailed in Cuba as the […]
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 […]
NYT: American Released by Cuba Plays Role as U.S. Relations With Havana Thaw
By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD | MAY 2, 2015 MEXICO CITY — For five years, Alan P. Gross, an American aid worker, sat in a Cuba prison growing so despondent that he openly considered suicide. […]
Cuba’s Coming Out Party at the Summit of the Americas
For the small island of Cuba, the VII Summit of the Americas in Panama marked a kind of “coming out” party. Banned from the for-capitalists-only gatherings from the time they began in […]
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 […]
