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Angola’s debt to Cuba is unfinished

To provide oil to Cuba would be to say that the sacrifices of the past are not forgotten, that internationalism is not a relic, and that the Global South can still act in ways that defy the narrow logic of profit.

Russian crude oil arrives in Cuba

The shipment marks the first significant delivery of its kind in months, arriving after U.S. sanctions sharply limited the island’s access to imported fuel.

The cost of invading Cuba: A ‘War of the Entire People’

The idea of “War of the Entire People” is straightforward and audacious. If the island is invaded, the war does not end with the defeat of conventional forces. It begins there.

A new Platt Amendment?

This is not the first time Cuba has faced a situation so critical that it seems terminal. We are in a moment darkly similar to that of 1902.

When dialogue was a crime

The very idea once treated as treason is quietly returning to the center of U.S.–Cuba policy.

Díaz-Canel breaks the silence: Cuba confirms talks with Washington

Díaz-Canel warned that the contacts are still in early stages. Negotiations, he said, require time.

Trump’s Iran war: Anatomy of a debacle

Alarm bells follow new report of looming US plan to attack Cuba

The false prophets in American foreign policy

Disapproval of Israel at all-time high in Pew poll

Reps. Jayapal, Jackson statement on visit to Cuba

Trump’s ’27 budget: ‘A moral obscenity’