Cuba: Salvaging a Revolution?

In April, President Obama and Juan Manuel Santos, the president of Colombia, reinitiated discussions on establishing a free trade agreement.

The debate surrounding the UN vote raises key issues regarding the contemporary status of Cubans with non-conforming gender and sexual identities.

It is 7 a.m. and Gabriela, a 43-year-old Afro-Cuban woman, is anxiously waiting for Camilo, a local street vendor, to

It is by now a well-known story: Racial inequality has increased in Cuba since the 1990s. It is also well-known

It was, countless newspapers and magazines informed us, the “most triumphant” story of 2010. The rescue of 33 Chilean miners

On May 6, 2002, thanks to then Undersecretary of State John Bolton, Cuba’s biotechnology industry made headlines around the world.

Although the Cubans initially had high expectations that Obama would truly change U.S. policy, there were clouds on the horizon.

The “social purpose” of the economy, as it is called, is a pillar of the socialist model of socio-political organization

There is a troubling reality that those of us who sympathize with the underlying objectives and achievements of the Cuban

North Star: A Memoir, by Peter Camejo, Haymarket Books, 2010, 364 pp., $18 (paperback)   Peter Camejo’s life spanned the

On April 29, the Protagonistic Critical Observatory Network (Red Protagónica Observatorio Crítico), an autonomous group of Cuban activists and intellectuals,

Tierras Libres: Venezuela’s War in the Countryside, a documentary film by Edward Ellis (Cooperativa Primeras Voces), 2011, 70 mins.