Is Cuba’s Vision of Market Socialism Sustainable?
Just three months after Miguel Diaz-Canel took over the presidency of Cuba from Raul Castro, his government has unveiled a new Council of Ministers—essentially, Cuba’s Cabinet—along with the draft of a...
View ArticleSixty Years After the Revolution, Is a ‘New Cuba’ Emerging?
Is the Cuban Revolution reinventing itself at age 60? That was my unmistakable impression during a visit to Cuba last month. Change is in the air as the island celebrates the anniversary of the 1959...
View ArticleCuba Must Contend With a New Cold War in the Western Hemisphere
Cuba faces a much tougher international environment today than it did just a few years ago. Relations with Latin America have cooled as relations with Washington have regressed to a level of animosity...
View ArticleAn Energy Crisis Is Putting Cuba’s Post-Castro Leadership to Its First Test
Venezuela’s economic collapse and Washington’s new sanctions on companies shipping Venezuelan oil to Cuba have plunged the island nation into its most severe energy crisis since the collapse of the...
View ArticleCuba’s Economic Crisis Is Spurring Much-Needed Action on Reforms
Cuba’s economy was already struggling before the coronavirus pandemic, due to persistently poor domestic productivity, declining oil shipments from Venezuela and the ratcheting up of U.S. sanctions....
View ArticleCuba’s Post-Castro Leaders Must Deliver the Goods
On Monday, the 60th anniversary of the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, Raul Castro stepped down as leader of the Cuban Communist Party. Between them, Raul and his late brother, Fidel, led Cuba since the...
View ArticleCuba’s Protests Put Diaz-Canel—and Biden—in a Bind
On Sunday July 11, Cuba was rocked by an unprecedented public display of opposition as thousands of people joined nationwide demonstrations against the government. The largely spontaneous outbursts...
View ArticleA New Culture of Dissent Is Remaking Cuba’s Politics
In mid-February, a court in Holguin, Cuba, about 500 miles east of Havana, handed down sentences of up to 20 years in prison to 20 people convicted of sedition the previous month. Their crime, and that...
View ArticleBiden Finally Realized He Can’t Ignore Cuba Any Longer
President Joe Biden has finally learned the lesson that each of his 11 predecessors had to grudgingly accept when it comes to Cuba: Some U.S. interests can only be advanced by engaging with Havana....
View ArticleCuba’s Deepening Economic Crisis Is Putting Diaz-Canel in a Bind
The twin blows of U.S. sanctions and the COVID-19 pandemic, exacerbated by runaway inflation triggered by an economic reform gone awry, have plunged Cuba into its worst economic crisis since the...
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