Fidel Castro

Prieto's New Novel "Travels By Taxi", And Free Speech In Cuba (VIDEO)

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...

Yoani Sanchez: Obama Answers Top Cuban Blogger

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...

Big Ag Takes Aim at Cuban Embargo

Barth Anderson | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics


Barth Anderson

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

Cuba's Soft Power: Exporting Doctors Rather Than Revolution

Steve Clemons | Posted 11.12.2009 | World


Steve Clemons

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.

Just When You Thought Cuba Might Ever Get Rid Of Fidel

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 ...

Cuban Vote at UN: "Here We Go Again"

Evelyn Leopold | Posted 10.28.2009 | World


Evelyn Leopold

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.

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

Jim Luce | Posted 10.28.2009 | New York


Jim Luce

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

Juanita Castro, Fidel's Sister, Says She Collaborated With CIA

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 ...

Cuba Sends Spies To U.S. To Mislead, Misinform

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...

Let the Philharmonic Play in Cuba

Alec Baldwin | Posted 10.06.2009 | World


Alec Baldwin

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?

Fidel Castro Suggested Nuclear Strike On U.S.: Documents

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...

The Return Of McCarthyism: Hysteria In Action On The Right (VIDEO)

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...

Taylor Branch To Reveal "The Clinton Tapes"

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...

Signs of Seduction and Change Sprout on Cuban Bodies

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 11.13.2009 | World


Yoani Sanchez

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.

Raised at Fidel's Knees, a Son of the Revolution Tells Us What's Behind the Curtain

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 10.22.2009 | World


Yoani Sanchez

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.

34 Years

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 10.20.2009 | World


Yoani Sanchez

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.

New Photo Shows Healthier Fidel Castro

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...

Fidel's Dictionary: A Man's Phrases are Compiled When You Know He's Finished

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 09.13.2009 | World


Yoani Sanchez

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.

The Portable Castro: Cuba Issues Fidel Dictionary

AP | Posted 09.08.2009 | World


HAVANA — Cubans accustomed to hourslong speeches, thousand-word essays and lengthy interviews can now get Fidel Castro at a glance, thanks to a ...

Defying the Castro Brothers Under Cuban Skies

Luis Carlos Montalván | Posted 09.07.2009 | World


Luis Carlos Montalván

Under cover of the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, Cuban authorities arrested and charged 75 prominent dissidents with being agents of "Yankee Imperialism," as shown in a new documentary.

I Am Terrified of Losing My Son, Yet I Long to be the Wings of His Escape

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 09.04.2009 | World


Yoani Sanchez

What would I love more than that my son would stay in Cuba. But I do not have a single convincing argument to tell him not to leave.

Cuba: Next in Line for a Color Revolution?

Boris Mamlyuk | Posted 09.02.2009 | World


Boris Mamlyuk

Revolutions start with powerful ideas. The mode of transmission is secondary.

US Cuba Propaganda Ticker Turned Off

Guardian | Posted 08.27.2009 | World


It was smuggled through the US diplomatic pouch, secretly installed across the facade of a building overlooking Havana and tasked with a very specific...

Victoria Jackson, Former SNL Star, Compares Obama To Hitler In Mad Rant

Huffington Post | Susan Crile | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics


Former "Saturday Night Live" star Victoria Jackson posted an incoherent rant against President Obama on Andrew Breitbart's Big Hollywood website on Tu...

The Ghost of Power Cuts Past Returns to Cuba

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 07.31.2009 | World


Yoani Sanchez

Cuba can no longer resell a portion of the barrels that come from Caracas and this -- along with the international financial problems -- has forced it to re-impose the cuts.