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Trump starved Cuba into darkness, then started talking as if the island were his to take. iPINIONS argues that Raúl Castro’s smartest move may be to send his own grandson to flatter Trump back toward the very normalization Obama achieved and Trump reversed. Read my full take on Substack:https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/trumps-energy-blockade-has-made-cuba Read more.
Miguel is following Raúl as Raúl Followed Fidel. With apologies to my Spanish-speaking readers, nothing describes Cuba’s national development quite like the French epigram plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. It means the more it changes, the more it remains the same. And that, in a nutshell, is Cuba. Cuba’s National Assembly cleared… Read more.
Fidel Castro, the fiery apostle of revolution who brought the Cold War to the Western Hemisphere in 1959 and then defied the United States for nearly half a century as Cuba’s maximum leader, bedeviling 11 American presidents and briefly pushing the world to the brink of nuclear war, died Friday… He dominated his country with… Read more.
The Obama administration eased trade and travel restrictions on Cuba Tuesday, granting more economic benefits for the communist-ruled island nation in advance of President Obama’s historic trip… Mr. Obama will start a three-day visit to Cuba on Sunday, becoming the first sitting president to travel there in nearly 90 years… ‘These steps not only expand… Read more.
I have written many commentaries on America’s 50-year embargo against Cuba. Here, for example, are excerpts from two of them in which I proffered the moral imperative for the United States to lift it. From “Dancing on Castro’s Grave Is Not Only Unseemly; It’s Premature,” August 2, 2007: Most of us in the Americas are… Read more.
I am among those who have been agitating for years for the United States to lift its hypocritical, unconscionable, and demonstrably misguided embargo against Cuba. Not least because the people who have been (and are being) harmed most by it are poor Cubans, the majority of whom are Black. That’s why I’ve argued since 2005… Read more.
Former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro seems to be recovering from the gastrointestinal problems that nearly killed him a few years ago in a manner that is worthy of Lazarus. Indeed, nothing demonstrated his miraculous triumph over the Grim Reaper quite like his donning army fatigues, instead of track suits, again. Yet, in the United States,… Read more.
This week, international news organizations reported the fact that Raul Castro is continuing the reign of terror his brother Fidel launched almost 50 years ago as if it were every bit as shocking as the fact that President Barack Obama is continuing many of the oppressive war-on-terror tactics his predecessor George W. Bush deployed after… Read more.
Reports that emergency surgery forced Fidel to transfer power to his brother Raúl a few days ago had Miami Cubans dancing in the streets yesterday. Their reaction did not surprise me. But I was stupefied. After all, their celebration not only betrayed their naiveté about the implications of this transfer, but also indicated how much wasted emotion and… Read more.
