Cuba’s Students and Teachers are Paying the Price
In the face of unprecedented hardships caused by a crippling U.S. oil blockade, Cuba’s students and teachers fight to carry forward the revolution’s long-running commitment to high-quality education.
Leonardo Padura’s Like Dust in the Wind and the Afterlife of a Generation
Padura's novel traces the dreams, disappointments, and dispersal of a generation shaped by the Cuban Revolution.
Cuba’s Cosmopolitan Enclaves: Imperialism and Internationalism in Eastern Sugar Towns (Review)
A new book places multiracial sugar workers in Cuba’s northeast at the vanguard of inter-war internationalism, solidarity, and anti-imperialism.
Regime Change and Real Estate in Cuba
Trump's pressure campaign could create an opening for him to develop hotels and real estate in Cuba, a goal he has pursued for decades.
Trump’s War on Cuba: Crisis Made in the U.S.A. | Under the Shadow Season 2, Episode 7
The situation in Cuba is dire. It hasn’t been this bad for decades. And it’s on purpose. This is a humanitarian crisis, made in the United States
The Making of Cuba’s Crisis
NACLA editors revisited decades of coverage and curated this selection of articles to help readers understand how Cuba’s current crisis has been years in the making.
Afro-Feminist Poetics and Trans Life in Cuba: A Conversation with Max Fonseca
The poet and activist talks about the precarity that trans, queer, and Afrodescendent people in Cuba face today, and the life sustaining worlds built by Black trans women in Cuba and its diaspora.
A New No-Man’s-Land: Writing and Art at Guantánamo, Cuba (Review)
Esther Whitfield's book examines how art produced in Guantánamo transcends cultural and linguistic divides to find common ground, reimagining empathy and resistance against political forces.
Portable Postsocialisms: New Cuban Mediascapes after the End of History (Review)
Paloma Duong's book explores Cuba's changing media landscape's effect on local and global perceptions of the country by analyzing popular Cuban music and recent leftist travel literature on Cuba.
¿Quiénes Somos Todos? Libertad, igualdad y fraternidad en Cuba (Review)
Julio César Guanche's book offers a reinterpretation of Cuba’s enduring democratic-republican tradition, unearthing its popular and egalitarian historical roots.
Three Years After Cuba’s 11J, Discontent and Persecution Continue
Since the outbreak of the largest protests seen in nearly three decades, the Cuban government has tightened its grip on the economy, further reducing citizens' freedoms.
