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The Castro Family’s Generous Crab

The lesson is clear: in times of crisis, some people count coins to buy food; others count hectares to hand out favors.

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Cuba: Raul Castro, 95, Is Still Alive and in Command

The purpose of this farce was not so much to convince ordinary Cubans as the regime’s “enemies.” Specifically, the US government.

07.09.2026 20

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Book Review of Reinaldo Arena’s “Viaje a la Havana”

The three parts can be read independently, but when viewed as parts of a single journey they acquire a new dimension.

05.09.2026 20

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Nicaragua: The Nameless, the Forgotten, and Exclusion

Nicaragua does not need a new group of chosen ones speaking on behalf of “the forgotten,” even if they are younger or have an appealing message.

04.09.2026 20

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The Nicaraguan Dictatorship Is a Poor Copy of North Korea’s

North Korea has had two dynastic successions, from Kim Il Sung to Kim Jong-il, and from Jong-il to Kim Jong-un. Ortega’s regime has had none.

03.09.2026 20

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The Dilemmas of Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum

There are two questions that have always seemed to me journalistically appropriate and easy for anyone who considers themselves a democrat to answer.

03.09.2026 30

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Cuba Faces Electrical & Political-Technological Blackouts

In March 2023, the world learned of a case that sparked one of the first debates about the dangers of emotional relationships between human beings and...

02.09.2026 20

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Humor in Cuba in Times of Rage

Censorship forced people to perfect their codes. The comedian learned to leave empty spaces, and the audience learned to fill them.

31.08.2026 20

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Oil, the Second Step in Operation Maduro

An agreement like the one announced this week, allowing US companies access to billions of barrels of Venezuelan oil, raises questions.

30.08.2026 10

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Open Letter from Sergio Ramirez to President Lula da Silva

Ortega has abolished elections. Do not deny Nicaragua the right to choose freely—the same right that could make you president of Brazil for a fourth...

25.08.2026 20

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Cuban President Diaz-Canel Knows No Shame

When someone repeatedly lies to your face, you have to admire their persistence. Not everyone has the talent to maintain a lie while staring you...

25.08.2026 20

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In Cuba Who Suffers the External and Internal Blockades?

Today I want to address the US government’s blockade against Cuba, the one that has existed for more than 60 years...

23.08.2026 20

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The Grief of Exile: Loving from the Shadows

When I left my country, I felt relief. My first thought was for my freedom, the possibility of defending what I believe in.

21.08.2026 10

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The Cuban Government’s Latest Salvation Plan: Domestic Oil

The blockade Cuba is facing on fuel imports has the dictatorship experimenting with every possible avenue in search of some breathing room.

19.08.2026 20

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The USA Should Not Close the Legal Door to Cubans

In almost every Cuban family, someone has left, someone is preparing to leave, or someone is trying to figure out how.

19.08.2026 20

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Yoani Sanchez: Three Weeks Later, I Return to Streets

The offensive against private businesses has reduced supplies in a city where finding a package of chicken has become quite an expedition.

19.08.2026 20

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Lessons from the Venezuelan Laboratory for Cuba’s Transition

Six months have passed since the events of January 3 in Venezuela unleashed an avalanche of predictions about what would immediately happen in Cuba.

19.08.2026 20

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“Spiderman” Represents Catharsis in Cuba

His crime was shouting from his balcony about the many miseries we endure every day. When the video went viral, the regime took action.

18.08.2026 30

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Chile Facing the Tariffs and Protectionism from the USA

A fundamental feature of the new international reality is the structural change in the United States. The Republican Party has abandoned free trade...

14.08.2026 30

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Cuba’s Anna Bensi and When the Hawk Fears the Dove

Anna Bensi is not simply an influencer; she is a dissident in the digital age whose crime is making the invisible visible.

13.08.2026 20

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Banished to Miami

Many Cubans in the USA mirror the very same intolerance and contempt that they have spent decades criticizing in the Cuban government.

10.08.2026 30

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The Children of ICE

By any measure, this constitutes official cruelty. No child, anywhere in the world, should ever be imprisoned.

09.08.2026 30

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Nicaragua: The Lesson of Playing with the Word ‘Dictatorship’

Costa Rica must not turn its back on a people suffering imprisonment, nor trivialize the language with which tyrannies begin.

08.08.2026 30

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Why I Wrote “The Moonlit Vine”

When I was growing up, my mother often said, "Nosotros somos indios, africanos y españoles." We are Indigenous, African, and Spanish.

05.08.2026 30

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Three Minutes for My Mother’s Birthday

Power outages and a lack of internet turn a family phone call between Berlin and Villa Clara into an ordeal marked by distance and exile.

02.08.2026 40

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Venezuela: Expectations of the Negotiations that Begin Today

“The main challenge for Venezuela is to transform destructive rivalry into a genuine exercise in practical politics.”

01.08.2026 30

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Cuba: A Tour Through Ruins of the Gaesa Military Empire

A walk in Vedado reveals the decline of the commercial network the military built to control remittances, tourism, and hard-currency stores.

30.07.2026 30

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Cuba: Diaz-Canel Appeals to the World for Help

The Cuban leader turned the July 26 commemoration into a lengthy harangue devoid of self-criticism, solutions, and clinging to the rhetoric of the...

26.07.2026 30

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Corrupted Officials Won’t Restore Venezuela’s Institutions

The current government has plundered and morally and materially ruined the country, but the solution is not to become a United States colony.

26.07.2026 30

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Tyranny Without Masks in Nicaragua

By openly decreeing that there will be no more elections in his country, Ortega marks a point of no return of unprecedented gravity.

24.07.2026 20

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Cuba: When Time Itself Also Makes You Sick

A Cuban family’s testimony from a Havana hospital, facing an illness that does not wait.

24.07.2026 30

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Orwell and the Lesson Elites Still Don’t Want to Understand

No statistic can replace a conversation with someone who works, runs a business, pays taxes, or waits for medical care.

23.07.2026 30

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Luis Manuel Otero, Another Cuban Forced into Exile

From his earliest days as a visual and performance artist, Otero used his work to denounce political repression, censorship, and the lack of...

23.07.2026 40

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Cuba Between Pain and Longing

That is how life unfolds in Cuba: enduring an adverse reality while nurturing the hope that this nightmare will end.

21.07.2026 40

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Cuba: Brothers to the Rescue Trial in USA, a First Step

The trial of Luis Gonzalez Pardo, one of those implicated in the downing of two Brothers to the Rescue aircraft in February 1996, is set for August...

21.07.2026 40

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Nicaragua Without Ballot Boxes: Ortega’s Autocracy

Ortega was not making a threat: he was admitting the true nature of a regime that can only remain in power by eliminating the vote.

21.07.2026 40

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Nicaragua’s Dictatorship Was Not Born From The Revolution

Acknowledging shared responsibility for the emergence of the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship does not diminish Ortega’s responsibility.

18.07.2026 40

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I Was Mistaken About Cuba’s Future

Months ago, armed with my calculations and a healthy dose of skepticism, I concluded that the Cuban system wouldn’t survive to see July 11.

17.07.2026 30

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Here In Havana, “Just Surviving”

In a country where the State no longer provides electricity, water, medicine, or bread, every family is trying to save itself however it can.

16.07.2026 40

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Challenges for Reconstruction and Transition in Venezuela

What does the "Reconstruction of Venezuela" mean? Under what criteria and guidelines will it be carried out? Who will manage it?

15.07.2026 40

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Challenges for Reconstruction and Transition in Venezuela

What does the "Reconstruction of Venezuela" mean? Under what criteria and guidelines will it be carried out? Who will manage it?

15.07.2026 40

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The Cuban Revolution’s Funeral is Being Unbearably Delayed

Amid political prisoners, blackouts, and palace infighting, the fifth anniversary of July 11 confirms the regime’s final exhaustion.

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The Blackout Lunatics of Havana, Cuba

Amid banging pots and pans, plumes of smoke, and outages, the Cuban electricity crisis seems to have turned madness into a widespread state.

09.07.2026 50

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Raulito’s Interview: Not Just a Message to Washington

Naturally, headlines focused on his openness to dialogue with Washington. But the deeper significance of the interview may lie elsewhere.

07.07.2026 50

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Cuba Goes from the Mariel Egg Attacks to the Luxury Egg

The energy crisis and inflation have turned a food that for decades was plentiful on Cuban tables into an almost exclusive commodity.

04.07.2026 50

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How Trump Lost His War with Iran

Donald Trump was deeply misled by the success of the operation to oust Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro on January 3rd.

30.06.2026 40

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Venezuela’s Institutions Had Fallen before the Buildings

The earth shook in Venezuela. It did so with such force that it fractured what remained of a State that had already been reduced to rubble.

30.06.2026 50

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Cuba Is Left Almost Without Internet Again

Wi-Fi hotspots are disappearing, mobile coverage is failing, and customers are chasing a signal that is becoming increasingly scarce.

29.06.2026 40

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Cuba’s Last Hand

Ever since the Berlin Wall fell 37 years ago Cuba has been debating economic reforms to its socialist system, but little has happened.

29.06.2026 50

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Colombia: A Reckoning for Peace, Climate and Human Rights

Climate activists, human rights defenders, Indigenous communities and peace advocates have much to lose from the incoming government’s agenda

27.06.2026 50

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