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14ymedio, Yoani Sanchez, Havana 27 November 2016 – Few people were watching official television at that hour. The news of Fidel Castro’s death began to spread through the night on Friday by phone, as information that was vague and imprecise. “Again?...

From persecution to acceptance? The history of LGBT rights in Cuba By Justin Halatyn Research Associate at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs Since the Cuban Revolution of 1959, the island nation has received low scores in many human rights indices...

By Samuel Farber Original here: One-Party State? HAVANA TIMES — In Cuba the one-party state is a very controversial question that few of the left-wing critics of the Cuban regime have been willing to address. What follows is an attempt to explore,...

As Cubans celebrate ex-President Fidel Castro’s 89th birthday, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will officially mark the occasion by finally opening the U.S. Embassy in Havana. Castro, now retired, served as president up to 2008. A key figure in the...

14 August 2016 Going to Cuba was a lot easier than I thought it would be. My second major at Emory in the Reagan ‘80s was “International Studies” with a focus on Soviet and Latin American politics. The one paper my mother saved from her college days...