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Fidel’s true legacy
The death of Fidel Castro has resulted in the unfortunate, but entirely expected, repugnant coverage of his passing from the Western mainstream media, particularly in the United States.…
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An Asian cautionary tale for Cuba and the United States
As Cuba increasingly welcomes foreign investment, some worry whether the nation’s relatively sophisticated system of environmental laws and regulations and its natural land and marine…
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Cuba after Fidel; Trump after Fidel
The photo at top is of Cubans massed together in Havana's Plaza of the Revolution. They were there to pay posthumous tribute to Fidel Castro. In the days before his inauguration, we…
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Saying goodbye to Fidel
Cuban photographer Carlos Ernesto Escalona Martí (Kako) offers us a view of the people in Havana saying their last goodbyes to “El Comandante” at the Plaza of the Revolution on Tuesday.…
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Revolution means unity; it is independence, it is fighting for our dreams of justice…
The official English translation of the text of Fidel Castro’s revolutionary oath that people are signing in honor of the deceased leader at Havana’s Plaza of the Revolution.
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Fidel Castro and history
Although he himself predicted it in his final public appearance, Fidel Castro's death has not failed to affect the Cuban people and the rest of the world. Fidel was an invincible…
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Why Chicanos love Fidel Castro but hate Cuban exile politics
Gabriel San Roman writes that while many Cubans in the United States danced to the news of Fidel Castro's death this weekend, many Chicanos mourned what they felt was an extraordinary…
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No cause for celebration
The demonizers celebrated on Calle Ocho this weekend. But most Cubans in Miami, whatever they thought about Castro, realize the inherent moral indigence and political counterproductive…
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Fidel, history has absolved you
One is struck by the dichotomy of coverage in the media with outpourings of condolences and recognitions of Fidel’s legacy coming from the island, Latin America and the world countered…
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Black America and the passing of Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro has a special significance for countless Black Americans. When he took up residence in the Hotel Theresa in New York’s Harlem, later meeting with Malcolm X, the Cuban…
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