Solidarity with Cuba

For too long, the debate over U.S. policy toward Cuba has been dominated by narrow arguments at the two extremes. They either ignore Cubans' demands for desperately needed change in their country's failed system or appeals for necessary changes in U.S. policy. Both sides have been successful in turning a deaf ear to the fact that Cubans on the island are calling for change -- and not only in Cuba.

Cuba—A Way Forward

In a 1980 interview, Gabriel García Márquez told The New York Times that he had spent three years writing a book about life in Cuba under Fidel Castro. But, he said, “now I realize that the book is so critical that it could be used against Cuba, so I refuse to publish it.”

United by pain, Cuba's Ladies in White vow to keep marching

The women met each other in Villa Marista, tenebrous headquarters of Cuba's political police, while visiting some of the 74 husbands, sons and fathers arrested in a 2003 crackdown on dissent.

Divided Cuban Community meets on Facebook

Susana has never set foot outside of Cuba but she has seen plenty of pictures of her friends' houses in Miami, their new cars and even the fancy disco they went to the other night.

Cuba: Discovering personal independence

For an economist, Cuba has been a perfect laboratory experiment. Fidel Castro was a charismatic leader, Cuba enjoyed economic and political support from Russia, it had a closed economy, and the revolution gave the government absolute control over the people. The government confiscated millions of acres of land and established collective farms under centralized planning. It all came together to create the perfect experiment in socialism. |

Juanes' concert for peace -- reading the tea leaves

After watching the much talked-about Juanes concert on Sunday, I was left with a feeling that something transcendental had taken place.

Cuban blogger the voice of youth-oriented counterculture

Yoani Sánchez, the blogger who has gained an international following detailing the absurdities of daily life in Cuba, is on the phone from her 14th-floor apartment in Havana, where the elevators rarely work. She speaks plainly, boldly, with none of the hemming and hawing common among folks on the island who fear their phones are tapped.

Cuba Lags in Communication Technology

Cuba’s cellular telephone service mushroomed in 2008, but the remainder of its telecommunications and information technology sectors were stagnant or even shrank, according to the most recent report from the Havana government.

Anniversary of a Castroite Massacre

In the predawn darkness of July 13, 1994, 72 desperate Cubans - old and young, male and female - sneaked aboard a decrepit but seaworthy tugboat in Havana harbor and set off for the U.S. and the prospect of freedom.

Giving Solidarity to the World

"The triumph of Poland's Solidarity trade union movement in 1989 stands out as one of the most consequential victories for human freedom of this or any other century. Not only did it liberate the Polish people from the yoke of communism, but it set in motion the events leading to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of communism in Central Europe and the Soviet Union, and the end of the Cold War."

U.S. can't turn deaf ear anymore