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Sovereign immunity exposes the bankruptcy of the Cuba embargo
When the U.S. Supreme Court takes up the long-running property disputes tied to the Cuban Revolution, many will frame the moment as a quest for justice for Americans whose assets were…
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Washington’s contradictory Cuba strategy
In diplomacy, who you choose to talk to often matters as much as what you say. Recent reporting by the Miami Herald and comments by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggest that…
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Bunny talk: No translation required
Before Bad Bunny ever stepped onto the Super Bowl stage, Donald Trump had already announced his displeasure. He criticized the choice of artist, complained that the performance would be…
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The reform that never was (and the counterreform that was)
Opinion article based on “La Contrarreforma,” by Rubén Padrón Garriga, published in La Joven Cuba.
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In the Cuban political debate, an old ghost has returned under a new name.…
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The US’s trillion-dollar military habit
The United States spends more on its military than any other country on Earth—and then some. In fact, it spends more than the next nine countries combined, including China, Russia,…
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When Martí met King: A conversation across empires
(Editor’s Note: Today, Jan. 15, is the birthday of slain civil rights leader and philosopher-prophet Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Later this month, we celebrate José Martí’s birthday.…
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A new template for conflict, but Cuba poses the same old questions
Let's examine the recent United States military strike on Venezuela not only as a spectacle but as a test case. What happened in Caracas in early January was not simply the removal of…
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Marco Rubio and the narco-terrorist elite
(Editor’s Note: This article summarizes an article first published in The American Prospect and written by Maureen Tkacik. To see the original article, click here.)
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Marco Rubio…
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The Venezuela escalation ignores a long history of U.S. hypocrisy on drugs
Every accusation is a confession. This is clearly true of the Trump administration’s insistence that Venezuela operates as a “narco-state,” exporting terrorism to the US via fentanyl,…
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