To understand why, a new map of Cuba – the real Cuba – will have to be drawn. From Myth to Reality When Fidel Castro triumphed fifty years ago, Afro-Cubans were 35-45% of the total Cuban ...

Explore the present-day reality of the Cuban Revolution and its post-Castro future. Consider Cuba’s past and future, and the conflicts that have engulfed Cuba for the past six decades.

In addition, Cuba produces very little fuel of its own, meaning it relies on imports to keep the electrical grid afloat. The big problem for the island is that Venezuela — a political ally that ...

The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political spectrum ... 1989 to research the first independent guidebook to Cuba. Fidel Castro began that year basking, as he had for ...

The Biden administration has long wanted to see Cuba release hundreds of political prisoners in Cuban custody following mass pro-democracy protests in July 2021. The Catholic Church is leading ...

Bit by bit, the story of what goes on behind the walls of Fidel Castro’s political prisons has been carried out of Cuba by refugees. Sometimes the fragments have been recorded publicly ...

“Today every young Cuban is a political prisoner. A censored artist. An exile inside and outside Cuba,” wrote Alcántara. “Even if you’re an accomplice of the system, you will inevitably ...

Cuba's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez criticized the reinstatement of the terrorism designation, calling it "a tool of political coercion" rather than a genuine effort to combat terrorism.

Cuba said it will release 553 political prisoners after the Biden administration announced Tuesday it is removing Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism and taking other “goodwill ...