Barack Obama’s trip to Cuba in 2016 marked the first US Presidential visit to the island nation since 1928. The trip was a product of the ‘Thaw’ in US-Cuba relations, announced by Obama himself in December 2014. Indeed, the announcement marked the first time that the two states have shared [...]
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Cuba’s nine days of national mourning for former leader and founder of the Cuban revolution Fidel Castro Ruz recently ended. Expectedly, cheers upon the news of Castro’s death at age 90 were heard around the world. In Miami, Florida the old guard of right-wing Cubans, many of whose [...]
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For years, those who had hoped and prayed for his death were repeatedly disappointed by a photo, a newsclip or a commentary in that unmistakable style.
The rumours were always unfounded. Fidel Castro, who had dodged some 600 attempts on his life orchestrated by the CIA, was very much [...]
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On the weekend, Cubans woke up to the news that the 90-year old leader Fidel Castro had died. It was an event much expected and anticipated, given Fidel’s ailing health and advanced years, but it still took Cubans and the world by surprise. It was a particularly hard blow coming so soon on [...]
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This is the sequel to my previous post. There will be at least one more in this series. After that, I’ll translate some of the most important contributions to this ongoing controversy.
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The dismissal
It was the Uruguayan-born former BBC journalist Fernando [...]
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On August 4, I posted my translation of Cuban intellectual Esteban Morales’ response to the explosive intervention by the 37-year-old Granma deputy editor, Karina Marron, at a meeting of the Cuban Journalists Union (UPEC) on June 28. I then translated Marron’s leaked intervention [...]
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The 2014 film Canción de Barrio tells a dark story about those who are being left out of the promises of liberty and prosperity in the new Cuba.
The urban slums have always been a source of vexation for the Cuban revolution. During the seventies, the revolution [...]
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They’re caught between a government that denies the existence of racism and fellow black Cubans who lack racial consciousness.
On May 4, the Network of Afro-descendant Women convened an urgent meeting of activists, academics, and members of organisations fighting [...]
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