Disillusioned with the revolution after 68 years of US sanctions and a shattered economy, one in four Cubans have left in four years. Can the regime, and country, survive the engulfing ‘polycrisis’?
MICHAEL J. BUSTAMANTE is Emilio Bacardí Moreau Chair in Cuban and Cuban-American Studies at the University of Miami and the author of Cuban Memory Wars: Retrospective Politics in Revolution and Exile.
Cubans are speculating about whether their government will be the next to fall, with Venezuelan oil imports now in jeopardy.
The Cuban government’s imprisonment of 75 dissidents is an “unprecedented wave of repression” in the country, a United Nations official charges. In a report produced for next month’s annual session of ...
After decades of oppression, the Cuban people are rising up against the island nation’s authoritarian regime. Protesting the shortages and economic ruin wrought by their leaders’ centralized ...
MIAMI (CBSMiami) - Reports of continued repression by the Cuban regime continue to reach South Florida. In Spanish, you hear them scream "he has a gun, run." That was just one of the many videos ...
MIAMI (CBSMiami) - New videos surfaced Thursday showing brutal repression on demonstrators by the Cuban regime. On Sunday, Cubans on the island took to the streets demanding freedom. They marched and ...
The dictatorships of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela are demanding fewer sanctions and more privileges. To that end, they have fabricated the false narrative that the sanctions imposed upon them are ...
Across the island of Cuba, we are witnessing an unprecedented and organic moment. Sixty-two years of misery, censorship, repression and socialist lies have boiled over into grassroots protests by the ...
In an interview with CPJ, the exiled journalist spoke about the new Social Communication Law, what fuels his passion for the profession, and how he plans to continue covering Cuba from abroad. This ...
In Cuba recently, thousands of Cubans have taken to the streets in protest of the 62-year long socialist dictatorship. In response, the unelected government of Cuba has fired into crowds of protestors ...