Terror: The Last Recourse of the Dictatorship

Yoani Sanchez, 11.13.2009

Award-Winning Cuban Blogger

This guest column was written by Miriam Celaya, whose blog, Without Evasion, recently won the prize for Best Journalism Blog in the Virtual Island con...

Big Ag Takes Aim at Cuban Embargo

Barth Anderson, 11.12.2009

Chief blogger at Fair Food Fight

You have to give Big Ag its due: Big Soy and friends are pushing hard to end the ridiculous US embargo of Cuba.

The Faces of Those Who Repress Us [PHOTOS]

Yoani Sanchez, 11.12.2009

Award-Winning Cuban Blogger

After what happened last Friday--my kidnapping and beating by plainclothes State Security agents--I decided to bring to light a series of pictures of people who watch and harass me.

Cuba's Soft Power: Exporting Doctors Rather Than Revolution

Steve Clemons, 11.12.2009

Publisher of "The Washington Note"

I would have encouraged Cuba's foreign minister to say that the embargo was an anachronism of the Cold War, has not achieved the goals the US had for it, and harmed both Cuban and US interests.

"Tell Yoani to Shut Up"

Yoani Sanchez, 11.11.2009

Award-Winning Cuban Blogger

This prose-poem guest column was written by Orlando Luis Pardo, who was kidnapped and beaten together with me on the evening of November 6.

The Next Cuban Revolution

Tom Hayes, 11.11.2009

I was in Havana this past Friday when Yoani Sanchez was snatched by Cuban police and brutally beaten. The officers didn't draw blood this time--after...

El Museo del Barrio: Fifth Avenue on Fire

Jim Luce, 11.12.2009

Thought Leaders and Global Citizens

Forty years ago, El Museo del Barrio was a dream contained in a single classroom so far north that “sophisticated” Manhattanites would not...

Blaming the Victim

Yoani Sanchez, 11.08.2009

Award-Winning Cuban Blogger

After an attack there are certain myopics who blame the victim herself for what happened. If it is a woman who has been raped, someone explains that ...

Last Night A Regime In Its Last Throes Kidnapped and Beat Me [VIDEO]

Yoani Sanchez, 11.07.2009

Award-Winning Cuban Blogger

Near 23rd Street, just at the Avenida de los Presidentes roundabout, we saw a black car, made in China, pull up with three heavily built strangers. "Y...

Arturo Valenzuela Confirmed as Asst. Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere

Steve Clemons, 11.06.2009

Publisher of "The Washington Note"

After a long, messy battle between Senator Jim DeMint and the Obama administration, Senator DeMint removed his holds on two key administration appointees.

Senator LeMieux On Wrong Track with anti-Cuba Political Action Committee and State Department Hold

Steve Clemons, 11.06.2009

Publisher of "The Washington Note"

Kind of sad when you see a Freshman US Senator get appointed and immediately hijacked by lobbying groups who have deeply parochial interests that run against the nation's.

"I Stopped For You Because You're White"

Yoani Sanchez, 11.04.2009

Award-Winning Cuban Blogger

"I stopped for you because you're white," the taxi driver tells me after the tires screech in Reina Street around midnight. From his wide mulatto lip...

A Cuban Parable: Samuel Becket's "Endgame"

Yoani Sanchez, 11.03.2009

Award-Winning Cuban Blogger

We are in the middle of a theater festival and this helps us escape the boring programming on television and the limited recreational choices, almost...

In Cuba Power Only "Debates" With Itself [VIDEO]

Yoani Sanchez, 11.05.2009

Award-Winning Cuban Blogger

I do not know where to begin to tell what happened in the debate about the Internet that took place yesterday, organized by the magazine Temas. Undoub...

This Is Cuba: We Always Find Another Way [VIDEO]

Yoani Sanchez, 10.30.2009

Award-Winning Cuban Blogger

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No Toilets or Air For "Forgotten Prisoners"

Betwa Sharma, 10.29.2009

Betwa is the NY/UN correspondent for the Press Trust of India.

Prison conditions worldwide are worse than the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture could have imagined. Jails without air, toilets and food are not rare.

From Cuba With Love, They Can't Wipe the Smile off My Face

Yoani Sanchez, 10.29.2009

Award-Winning Cuban Blogger

Today I am inebriated with satisfaction because a compilation of my texts titled, De Cuba, com Carinho, or From Cuba with Love, will be launched this afternoon in Brazil.

Cuban Vote at UN: "Here We Go Again"

Evelyn Leopold, 10.28.2009

Veteran reporter at the United Nations

For the 18th consecutive year, the General Assembly condemned the US embargo against Cuba. But this was the first vote since President Obama took office, and everyone listened for hints of change.

The U.S. Embargo: A Convenient Excuse for Cuba's Own Failures

Yoani Sanchez, 10.29.2009

Award-Winning Cuban Blogger

As I began my adolescence, the issue of trade restrictions was on nearly every billboard in the country. At the political rallies we no longer shouted, "Cuba yes, Yankees no" but a new hard-to-rhyme slogan: "Down with the blockade."

Cuba United Nations Vote Today: US Should Abstain

Steve Clemons, 10.28.2009

Publisher of "The Washington Note"

Increasing numbers of national security leaders of the likes of Brent Scowcroft and George Shultz have said that the US embargo of Cuba makes no sense and harms American interests.

Mario Vargas Llosa on the End of the Incan Empire at the Americas Society

Jim Luce, 10.28.2009

Thought Leaders and Global Citizens

Vargas Llosa speaks about Barack Obama's Nobel Prize, the state of literature, inter-American relations and politics.