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Cuba’s new migration laws: A structural shift in policy and diaspora relations
Cuba has officially introduced a major overhaul of its migration laws with the publication of new legislation on Migration, Foreigners, and Citizenship—one of the most extensive legal…
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Cuban president warns Trump: “No aggressor will find surrender in Cuba”
President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez of Cuba on Saturday responded with stark and defiant words to the latest attacks coming from US President Donald Trump, who on Friday signed a new…
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Despite Trump’s threats, signs of engagement emerge in U.S.–Cuba talks
Even as U.S. President Donald Trump publicly threatens a “new dawn” for Cuba—at times invoking the possibility of military force—recent developments suggest a more complex and…
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Cuban doctors: They serve where others will not
This Progreso Weekly editorial was inspired by an article by Kenneth Mohammed published in The Guardian.
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There is a moral principle repeated endlessly across cultures: “Love thy…
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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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