Cuba
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Cuba50 – Celebrating Cuban Culture
The Cuba50 weekend at the Barbican 27-28 June, promises a feast of the very best live Cuban music and dance direct from Cuba.The two special concerts feature Cuba’s greatest dance band Los Van Van, nueva trova star Pablo Milanés, top rumba group Yoruba Andabo, the soulful Son Tropical and fabulous jazz pianist Harold Lopez Nussa. Continue reading
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COHA: Cuba and the United States: Let’s Not Waste an Opportunity for Change
The U.S.’ policy towards Cuba of maintaining sanctions in the hope of bringing about change before negotiations begin is a senseless one, reserved for Havana almost alone, that has proved to be an unmitigated failure. Continue reading
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Emir Sader, “‘What about Cuba, Mr. Obama?’”
More than four decades and ten US presidents later, Cuba is still alive. It in fact has broken the blockade, not only through its links with other countries of the continent — even Costa Rica, the last in Latin America, just restored its relations with Cuba — but also through its ability to revive tourism,… Continue reading
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ECONOMY-CUBA: Keeping the Wolf from the Door By Patricia Grogg
Some analysts say the nature of the centralised, state-run Cuban economy will give the government manoeuvring room and allow it to use resources intelligently, by contrast with economies where funds are widely dispersed. Continue reading
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Video: The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived the ‘Special Period’
Video: Cubans share how they transitioned from a highly mechanized, industrial agricultural system to one using organic methods of farming and local, urban gardens. It is an unusual look into the Cuban culture during this economic crisis, which they call “The Special Period.” Continue reading
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COHA: The Cuban Who Won’t Be in Trinidad
While the Cuban leader has demonstrated flexibility and emerged as a harbinger of change, Obama has instead taken the most conservative approach possible towards modifying the U.S.-Cuban relationship Continue reading
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Elda Molina Díaz, “Cuba: Economic Restructuring, Recent Trends and Major Challenges”
One of the distinctive features of the process of adjustment and reform of the Cuban economy carried out by the government was that even during the worst period of the crisis, the Revolution’s main social achievements in education, healthcare and social security were preserved Continue reading
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La revolucion energetica: Cuba’s energy revolution By Laurie Guevara-Stone
Such is the success of the two-year old program on this small island of 11 million people, that many other countries could learn from its efforts to be energy independent and curb climate change. Continue reading
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BBC NEWS | World | Americas | US politicians meet ‘fit’ Castro
A seven-strong team of congressional Democrats is currently in Cuba, looking into ways to improve US-Cuban relations, but only three of them attended the meeting with Mr Castro. Continue reading
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COHA: Revamping U.S.-Cuban Politics: Playing the Guantánamo Card in a Game of Constructive Diplomacy
In recent months, media coverage of Guantánamo Bay has focused on the relocation and plans for the prosecution of detainees now housed there by the United States government. But there is another issue that all but goes unaddressed – the legitimacy of the U.S. naval base’s very presence along the southeastern coastline of Cuba. Continue reading
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Cuban Cartoon Parody c. 1968
I must find out what happens in the third world. This is a task for Superman! I must inform Johnson as soon as possible…! Continue reading
The New Dark Age 