Fidel Castro, Behind the Ramparts (Part II of III)
In the whole of my experiences with or close to Fidel, this was the most pathetic. Here was a man who knew solitude was an impossibility, yet seemed happy to have the illusion of it.
In the whole of my experiences with or close to Fidel, this was the most pathetic. Here was a man who knew solitude was an impossibility, yet seemed happy to have the illusion of it.
Norberto Fuentes | Posted 12.22.2009 | Books
I felt very close to Castro, but my admiration for him and his achievements didn't seem to be enough. He was desperate to be fussed over. For me to fuss over him, over Fidel Castro.
Yoani Sanchez | Posted 12.21.2009 | World
"The impasse is the dynamics of deterioration," my friend said, part philosophic part pessimistic after listening to Raul Castro's speech in the National Assembly yesterday.
AP | WILL WEISSERT | Posted 12.21.2009 | World
HAVANA — Raul Castro gave the strongest signal yet his government's would-be honeymoon with the Obama administration is over, delivering a harsh...
Eric Ehrmann | Posted 12.14.2009 | World
Christmas season marks the 50th anniversary of Brasilia, the futuristic capital city designed by architect Oscar Niemeyer, and magazines and online media are celebrating the event.
New York Times | MARC LACEY and GINGER THOMPSON | Posted 12.12.2009 | World
HAVANA -- A United States government contract worker, who was distributing cellphones, laptops and other communications equipment in Cuba on behalf of...
Vivien Lesnik Weisman | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics
With his mishandling of the Honduras coup, Obama squandered the promise of a friendship with Latin America, one where Lula da Silva with the US, and not Chavez, set the agenda for Latin America.
The Nation | Ben Wyskida | Posted 11.23.2009 | Books
Ben Wyskida The Nation In the late 1980's noted novelist Jose Manuel Prieto was asked to leave Cuba, at odds with the Castro regime and what he calls...
AP | WILL WEISSERT | Posted 11.19.2009 | World
HAVANA — President Barack Obama has answered questions submitted by a celebrated Cuban blogger, saying he isn't interested in "talking for the s...
Barth Anderson | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics
You have to give Big Ag its due: Big Soy and friends are pushing hard to end the ridiculous US embargo of Cuba.
Steve Clemons | Posted 11.12.2009 | World
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.
The Huffington Post | Amy Hertz | Posted 11.06.2009 | Books
Huffington Post: If you thought Cuba might one day be free of Castro, Ann Louise Bardach has another message for you. The following excerpts from her ...
Evelyn Leopold | Posted 10.28.2009 | World
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.
Jim Luce | Posted 10.28.2009 | New York
Vargas Llosa speaks about Barack Obama's Nobel Prize, the state of literature, inter-American relations and politics.
AP | LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ | Posted 10.27.2009 | World
MIAMI — One of Fidel Castro's sisters says in a memoir released Monday that she collaborated with the CIA against her brother, starting shortly ...
miamiherald.com | By JUAN O. TAMAYO | Posted 10.19.2009 | World
WASHINGTON -- In the six months after the 9/11 attacks, up to 20 Cubans walked into U.S. embassies around the world and offered information on terrori...
Alec Baldwin | Posted 10.06.2009 | World
The embargo on Cuban travel should be lifted, at the very least, for cultural projects like the one by the Philharmonic that was just delayed by the U.S. Treasury. Who benefits from continuing this policy?
nytimes.com | WILLIAM J. BROAD | Posted 11.22.2009 | World
In the early 1980s, according to newly released documents, Fidel Castro was suggesting a Soviet nuclear strike against the United States, until Moscow...
Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics
***UPDATE 9/22/09*** I haven't found another embeddable version yet, but sharp-eyed reader Mark points out that you can watch the video here. ***UPDA...
GQ | Wil S. Hylton | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
It has been nearly forty years since three young Democratic activists named Bill Clinton, Hillary Rodham, and Taylor Branch moved into a small apartme...
Yoani Sanchez | Posted 11.13.2009 | World
Dying your hair blue, getting a tattoo or attaching a ring to your navel is no longer seen as an ideological debility. Signs have begun to sprout on bodies, of seduction and change.
Yoani Sanchez | Posted 10.22.2009 | World
Juan Juan Almeida brushed up against power and got scratched, without it doing him much good. His book, Memoirs of an Unknown Cuban Guerrilla, is the story of a brazen witness.
Yoani Sanchez | Posted 10.20.2009 | World
Since I left home in Cuba, I have learned to value autonomy, to distrust the subsidies and all these "gifts" that they constantly throw in the faces of citizens.
cnn.com | David Ariosto CNN | Posted 09.23.2009 | World
HAVANA, Cuba (CNN) -- A new photo of ailing Communist leader Fidel Castro surfaced on Sunday -- the second in 10 days -- revealing a more healthy-look...
Yoani Sanchez | Posted 09.13.2009 | World
To be reduced to the pages of a book, when once you held the microphone in front of a million people, must be a consolation as tasteless as the pap they administer to a patient.
Norberto Fuentes | Posted 12.30.2009 | Books