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The Latin American Report: Why Did Cuba End Up Alone?

First, this is a regressive dynamic that has been building for some time. What we're witnessing now is simply the most extreme point of that decline of external

Wealth, Dynasty, and the Limits of Latin American Democracy

Wealth and lineage are two unmistakable sources feeding the core of political life. They may clash against the more or less successful attempts of popular and social

Arturo Sandoval and Political Intolerance

Some years ago, I was in communication with the great Cuban trumpeter Arturo Sandoval—the godson of the unforgettable Dizzy Gillespie—through the old, abandoned

Putting the spotlight where it belongs

Aswering this from a longtime CNN correspondent in Havana In Sagua de Tánamo, my hometown municipality in Holguín, they had gone 33 hours without electricity by

Chris Van Hollen vs. Marco Rubio on Cuba

The brief exchange between Senator Chris Van Hollen and Marco Rubio this Tuesday reveals the irrationality that this administration embodies. Van Hollen took him

Cuba, the “Independence Day,” and the indictment against Raúl Castro

As is customary every year, the sitting U.S. president issued the official statement because of the date on which Cuba was formally constituted as an “independent”

On the incredible deportation of Alex Saab

The incoherence of Venezuelan "leadership"—if you can even call "leadership" a "power" structure that has no effective autonomy except

Cuba and the Quest for Peace

I am firmly convinced that if the United States' rationale is that Cuba must negotiate its political future with it—id est, the specific reforms that the country,

Cuba and the crass cynicism of the Trump administration

Source Right now, about a third of Cuba is disconnected from the national power system, which suffered another partial collapse—the umpteenth—after a critical thermal

The Latin American Report # 720

Peru: The victory of weariness Blank and null votes in Peru (3,142,121) exceed by 17% the total votes obtained by Keiko Fujimori—the eldest daughter of the late,

Did Cuba send mercenaries to support Russia in Ukraine?

It has been more than two years with this question in the air, and the short answer is that there is no smoking-gun evidence to support a definitive yes. So far,

A quick read of the Cuban president's interview with NBC News

Miguel Díaz-Canel, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, gave a historic interview to NBC News'

The first cracks in Delcy's reign in Venezuela?

In recent hours, it has been interesting to monitor the protests that have broken out in Venezuela demanding a wage increase, given that the minimum wage (130 bolívares)

AI models imagine a liberal, capitalist Cuba, but still sanctioned

Time and again, when I talk with my closest friends from my university years—one lives in Uruguay, another in Spain, and the third in the United States—about the

The Latin American Report # 715

Iran's top diplomat in Buenos Aires left Argentina this Saturday, according to the chancellor of Javier Milei's government, as stated by EFE. Relations between Tehran

Cuba is releasing 2,010 prisoners: What it means for its immediate future?

Source The Cuban government has taken the important and long-awaited step of approving a mass pardon, whereby 2,010 people deprived of their liberty are already

"Who's in Charge Here?" Venezuela's Agony Under Trump's Grip

It's been a while since we last updated Venezuela. For me, it's a painful exercise because it is conclusive proof of how crude the world has become under the malevolent

Russian Crude Reaches Cuba Amid U.S.-Forced Drought

The Cuban Foreign Ministry thanked Moscow this Tuesday for the shipment of some 730,000 barrels of Urals crude, after an involuntary fast from international fuel

The Latin American Report # 712

The effects of the war in Iran are being felt across the region, and Chile is a country where they are evidenced more strongly following the decision of the newly

Mexico does not let Cuba be erased from the map

While she understood that she could not compromise her country's economy by going against the oil blockade policy imposed by Trump on Cuba, Claudia Sheinbaum has