Opinion

The German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel popularized the concept of the “spirit of the age” to define the set of ideas and values that characterize a given historical…
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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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Centrist Democrats argue that the party should not “go so far left in a primary that they can’t win against MAGA in the general.” As the Center for Working Class Politics observes,…
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Recently, a series of front-page stories in the Miami Herald by Nora Gámez Torres — the paper’s Cuba and U.S.–Latin America policy reporter — have depicted a dramatic scene of secret…
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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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By any honest reading of history, nostalgia has often been the most dangerous political force in the United States. During and after the Civil War, competing visions of the nation…
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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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Incarceration has been used as a core tactic of the United States in upholding racial capitalism and imperialisms through repression, extraction, and violent control. Growing to more…
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Obviously, if they don't do the first, they'll do the second, but the moment has come. In 2014, the presidents of Cuba and the United States, Raúl Castro and Barack Obama, respectively,…
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Editor's Note: This op-ed was inspired by an article by Carlos Alzugaray Treto, originally published in La Joven Cuba. *** Cuba stands at one of the most perilous crossroads in its…
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