Cuba

The world of lobbying against U.S. policy toward Cuba offers an instructive lesson in the ironies and vagaries of coalition

Helms-Burton is not a rational piece of legislation. It clearly violates international law and various treaties the United States has

Roldy was 19 years old and homeless in Havana when I spoke to him in January 2003. He had just

There can be little doubt that Fidel Castro's regime has demonstrated a notable and, for many, surprising capacity for survival

Any analysis of civil society in Cuba faces two major difficulties, one of a theoretical and the other of a

Six months ago it was unimaginable that Cuban exiles would line up to return to their native land readied for

This past January 5, in a major speech commemorating the fortieth anniversary of the founding of the National Revolutionary Police,

On June 31, 2006, the Cuban government announced that due to a serious illness, the nature of which was declared a state secret, Fidel Castro was stepping aside as the head of state. His younger brother Raúl, officially designated as his successor since the early days of the 1959 Revolution, was "temporarily" replacing the commander-in-chief.

On Monday August 20, a three-judge panel of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta heard the case of the Cuban Five for the third time. In August 2005, a similar three-judge panel of the same court had unanimously overturned all of the Five's convictions and ordered a new trial. In 2006, after the direct intervention of U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, the full panel of that Court reinstated the Five's convictions.

Once marginalized from the Cuba policy debate, moderate and liberal Cuban Americans are taking their case to Washington at a a time when the struggle to define U.S. relations with the island is at its most contentious point.