As the country prepares for a historic presidential succession, ending the Castros’ nearly sixty-year grip on the highest office, inequality is growing and ordinary Cubans are increasingly disaffected. A report from Havana.
As relations with Cuba move toward normalization, the transformation of “people-to-people” travel into an element of U.S.-Cuba policy revives old racialized representations of the island and its people.
Obama’s recent visit to Cuba - particularly Tuesday's presidential address in Havana - has fueled a tentative hope for a new kind of U.S.-Cuba relations.