Cuba’s policy to withhold information on infectious disease threats for the purpose of protecting their health image, or their tourism industry is unacceptable in an era where rapid and frequent transport across borders occurs....
In every military autocracy the most powerful figure is the commander-in-chief. Miguel Diaz Canal seems poised to emulate Osvaldo Dorticós, ignoring the rules of the Cuban Constitution. During Dorticós' reign everyone in Cuba called him "President," even though they all knew he really...
The open intervention of the Reagan administration was a spur to the remnants of the defeated Somoza Army and to dissent in the countryside. The confrontation was radicalized, the social conquests foundered and civil war ensued, the consequences of which divided and bled the country...
Raúl Castro might show up at any hour of the morning, noon or night. Military and security personnel have removed the horse-drawn carriages and 1950s convertibles that tourists like so much....
Whether it’s handling day-to-day operations or managing a warehouse, she said that experiences mean nothing unless they’re learned from....
For more than a year, the 'political police' in Havana have prevented this civil society group from attending Santa Rita Church and carrying out its Sunday walk on Fifth Avenue. The Ladies in White say they cannot get to the church, so the church...
As Cuba’s leaders see it, the current, boorish Venezuelan president in office today is simply as a result of another man’s health problems....
Fidel Castro was preventing people from leaving Cuba at the point of a gun, while blaming the U.S. for not issuing enough visas for the Cubans who wanted to live there. This kind of 'contradictory nonsense' has been a longstanding feature of both Castro...
Visitors to Cuba must pay much more for everything than the Cuban locals do. Tourists also get approached by local peddlers trying to hustle them, while prostitutes frequently descend tourists like a swarm of flies. ...
56 years ago, around the time President Kennedy betrayed all Cubans at the Bay of Pigs, or maybe when he gave Cuba as a gift to the Soviet Union during the Missile Crisis, that monument suddenly disappeared....