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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US media depict the island as stuck in the digital dark ages, but Cuba has lively cultures of connectivity that could evolve into a self-sustaining, open, and accessible digital commons.
President Obama announced his historic upcoming visit to Cuba—the first in almost [...]
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They’re divided, by generation and class, over whether it will be a good thing.
In late January, the Obama administration announced that it would remove a number of impediments to trade with Cuba by lifting restrictions on the American financing of exports, relaxing [...]
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In the wake of Obama’s historic visit, the Cuban Communist Party (PCC) held its 7th Congress on April 16-19 in the Havana Convention Centre. Beneath a backdrop featuring a huge likeness of Fidel Castro, PCC secretary Raul Castro delivered the main report on behalf of the Central [...]
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With the first visit to Cuba in 88 years by a sitting U.S. president unfolding this week, this co-authored piece with Chris Hesketh – stemming from a joint visit to the island in 2013 – is offered as a snapshot reflecting on the changing dynamics facing revolutionary [...]
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“I want to see Cuba before everything changes” is how many reacted to Barack Obama’s surprise December 17 announcement that he would restore diplomatic relations with Cuba — severed by the US in 1961 — and urge Congress to lift the US blockade. My interests were piqued by this development [...]
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Tim Anderson (University of Sydney), ‘From Havana to Quito: Understanding Economic Reform in Cuba and Ecuador’
This is the second seminar in the series organised by the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney.
Date and Location:
12 March 2015, Darlington [...]
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This past Wednesday, President Barack Obama made a historic announcement about the normalisation of relations with Cuba. Although there had been rumours floating around the streets of Havana, most people on both sides of the Florida Straits were taken by surprise at the new policy toward [...]
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