In Cuba This Summer, The Carrot and The Stick
Since Fidel Castro stepped aside last February, there has in fact been real change afoot down in Cuba. The nation's development is more than cosmetic: it's a matter of survival for the ruling class.
Since Fidel Castro stepped aside last February, there has in fact been real change afoot down in Cuba. The nation's development is more than cosmetic: it's a matter of survival for the ruling class.
Roger Hernandez | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics
For the first time since they have been in Congress, Florida's three Cuban-American Republicans find themselves in a brawl to stay in Washington, signaling the collapse of the Cuban-GOP connection
David Paul Appell | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics
The U.S. doesn't have to embrace Cuba at this time, but we do need to engage, because if we don't evolve too, history won't absolve us. Obama understands this.
Robert L. Borosage | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics
John McCain seems intent on embracing every failed policy of the Bush administration. Iraq, check; top end tax cuts, check. Privatization of Social Security, check. Unraveling employer based health care, check. And this weekend, McCain boldly informed the remnants of the Miami Cuban expatriots that he will sustain the most egregiously failed US policy of them all -- the Cuban embargo.
David Paul Appell | Posted 04.01.2008 | Politics
In what looks like the baby steps of a slow process of easing into changes that Raúl and his people realize are unavoidable, tourism apartheid in Cuba may become a thing of the past.
Donna Rich Kaplowitz | Posted 02.21.2008 | Politics
In the "inter-regnum" period of the last 19 months, there is ample evidence that Raul Castro's quiet vision is slowly changing the Cuban political landscape.
Sarah Stephens | Posted 02.19.2008 | Politics
It was the express purpose of the U.S. embargo, with sanctions more comprehensive than any we impose on Iran, North Korea, Sudan, or Syria to stop this transition. But it couldn't.
Matt Cooper | Posted 02.19.2008 | Politics
The American embargo of Cuba is one of those things that most of the political elite in Washington privately acknowledge as a failure.
Marvin Kitman | Posted 01.15.2008 | Business
Dumping our cars into the Cuban market would be a win-win for us. Not only would it revive the ailing Michigan auto economy, it would be one more nail in Castro's coffin.
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David Paul Appell | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics