Cuba/USA

… I am now every day in danger of giving my life for my country, and for my duty—since I understand it and have the resolve to carry it out—to prevent, in time, with Cuba’s…
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Álvaro Fernández recently reminded us in Progreso Weekly that once upon a time, among Cuban exiles, the word dialogue turned into something worse than an ordinary pejorative. Beginning…
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Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel on Tuesday condemned US President Donald Trump’s open threat to forcibly seize control of the island nation and vowed that any such aggression would be…
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For decades in Miami’s Cuban exile community, one word carried the weight of betrayal: dialogue. To suggest that the United States should talk to the Cuban government was not merely…
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For weeks, rumors circulated in Washington, Miami, and Havana that quiet contacts were happening between the United States and Cuba. Some analysts even suggested that the Cuban…
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Almost a month after Trump’s Executive Order 14380, which imposed an oil blockade on Cuba, the situation can be summarized as a maze of mixed signals, with no immediate solution or…
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For more than two generations, except for a brief détente under Obama, the United States has pursued an escalating campaign of economic warfare against Cuba: a near-total trade embargo,…
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We’ve seen this movie before. Planes violate Cuban airspace, dropping leaflets over Havana. Speedboats approach the coast loaded with men, arms, and ammunition — like the recent…
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The Cuban government said Wednesday that the men on a Florida-registered boat who opened fire on Cuban soldiers in the island’s territorial waters were bent on carrying out “an…
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In a deadly development that could further strain relations between Havana and Washington DC, Cuba’s Ministry of the Interior announced Wednesday afternoon that four people on a…
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