For sixty years the U.S. has sought to create a U.S. policy, in the words of Mallory (1960), that “while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and the overthrow of government”.
Armed with just some textbooks and a kerosene lantern, Rosa Hernández Acosta taught literacy in rural Cuba without electricity, running water, or paved roads. In […]
Just as the magazine Puck related through an 1897 cartoon of Uncle Sam waiting for the fruit of Cuba to fall into his basket, with […]
The Cuban Revolution has lived under permanent siege: military, economic, financial, commercial, media. The American empire has been relentless against the small archipelago that has […]
This September marked 60 years since Fidel Castro’s first address to the United Nations, in which he delivered a scathing and truthful critique about the […]
Our adversaries persist in presenting the 1940s and 50s in pre-revolutionary Cuba as a “golden age,” while the reality was one of sharp inequality, deep […]
by Ramona Wadi “When Batista’s coup took place in 1952, I’d already formulated a plan for the future. I decided to launch a revolutionary programme […]
Did You Know That the US Once Planned to Attack Itself — and Blame Castro? As we watched President Obama being warmly welcomed in Cuba, […]
Today marks the 39th anniversary of the first production of the Cuban interferon, currently used in the fight against COVID-19 in various countries of the […]
May 15 marked the 65th anniversary of Fidel and his fellow Moncada prisoners release from the Model Prison on Isle of Pines Last May 15 […]
