Cuba Libre?
It was late January, just eight days before the Florida primary, and a crowd of supporters, a dozen TV crews, and a gaggle of journalists had jammed into a small dining room at the Versailles...
View ArticleSocialist, Hell — Make Him a Full-Bore Commie
Democrats toppled Republicans in 20 U.S. House races across the country on Nov. 4, but they struck out in what may now be the GOP’s most entrenched urban stronghold: South Florida’s Cuban electorate....
View ArticleP. People O.
Dear Mr. President, Piss people off. Piss off the right-wing Cuban Americans in Florida by normalizing relations with Cuba. (If we can work with the commies in Vietnam or China, then we can work with...
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Pssst. Mr. President.
As the lengthy, contentious 2008 presidential election campaign wound to a close, it wasn’t hard to pinpoint the overwhelming focal point: It was the economy, stupid. All three debates between Barack...
View ArticleWhy Spy for Cuba?
While watching The News Hour on PBS the other night, I was struck by how perplexed journalists are about the possible motives of Kendall and Gwendolyn Myers, the septuagenarian Washington, D.C., couple...
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We’ll Always Have Fidel
EARLIER THIS YEAR, an elderly widow died in Havana. Her death, at 88, after a long decline from Alzheimer’s, was unremarkable except in one respect: Angela Castro Ruz was the eldest living member of...
View ArticleClearer Vision on the ‘Eyeball-to-Eyeball’ Cuban Missile Crisis
How close the U.S. and USSR came to mutually assured destruction (a term not then in vogue) during the Cuban missile crisis seems, on the crisis’s half-century anniversary, like it ought to be settled...
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Election Results From the Rest of the World
What, you think the U.S. is the only place voting? NICARAGUA: With 91 percent of the vote counted, Nicaragua’s Sandinista Front won an overwhelming 76 percent Sunday, in a key vote focused on mayoral...
View ArticleOur Guide Proves Prescient in Outlining Post-Castro Cuba
Journalist and respected Cuba watcher Ann Louise Bardach outlined a post-Castro world for our readers late last year in her piece “We’ll Always Have Fidel.” Her premise was that even as Fidel Castro...
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Cuba’s Talent Export Strategy
Brain drain is economic development. Exporting talent is a smart strategy. The return on investment for Cuba: So what might Cuba’s latest foray into medical diplomacy entail? In return for physicians...
View ArticleThey Also Enjoy a Good Turkey Dinner in Havana
Of course there’s a website called World Poultry, and of course it’s incredible. It turns out that U.S. poultry farmers make a large part of their income exporting birds to several neighboring nations....
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ZunZuneo: Do Former Users Even Care That It Was Secretly Built by USAID?
The term “covert” is among the latest blasts from the Cold War past in the year that should occasion the conflict’s 25th anniversary celebrations but keeps bringing on its re-enactments instead. On...
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