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Díaz-Canel on Meet the Press
In his first-ever interview on American television, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel tells Meet the Press that Cuba would fight back against any potential U.S. military action, saying…
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What the United States wants, and can and cannot do, with Cuba
The U.S. desire to take over Cuba dates back to the country's beginnings. As early as 1805, Thomas Jefferson, one of the so-called “Founding Fathers” of the United States, called Cuba…
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Angola’s debt to Cuba is unfinished
In ‘Freedom Park’ (S’kumbuto) outside Pretoria (South Africa), there is a Wall of Names that honors the men and women who died in the fight to liberate South Africa from apartheid.…
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Russian crude oil arrives in Cuba
A tanker flying the Russian flag has started offloading about 700,000 barrels of crude oil at Cuba’s Matanzas terminal, according to maritime tracking data. The shipment marks the first…
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The cost of invading Cuba: A ‘War of the Entire People’
The U.S. military is not rehearsing for an invasion of Cuba or actively preparing to militarily take over the island, Francis Donovan, head of the U.S. Southern Command, told…
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A new Platt Amendment?
… 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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‘Impregnable resistance’ to Trump attempt to seize Cuba
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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When dialogue was a crime
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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Díaz-Canel breaks the silence: Cuba confirms talks with Washington
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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‘Eternal summer’ and the paradox of colder winters due to climate change
“I didn’t quit because I really need the money…,” I heard him confess while standing in line at a small private business (mipyme) in the city of Camagüey, where we both live. When I…
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