For Elaine Vilar Madruga, writing begins with a small group of obsessions: desire, violence, memory, land and motherhood. These “fundamental roots”, as the Cuban writer calls them, follow her from one page
The hemisphere’s longest-running standoff may finally be reaching its breaking point — but not necessarily in the way anyone expects. Cuba, in the spring of 2026, feels exactly like that. After sixty-seven
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Miguel Díaz-Canel has adopted increasingly militant and ideological rhetoric as Cuba enters one of its most severe political and economic crises in decades, marked by deepening shortages, widespread blackouts, and escalating confrontation
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The Donald Trump administration has just indicted former Cuban President Raúl Castro for the downing of two planes in 1996. Given the similarities between the measures taken against Cuba in recent months
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The United States has dramatically escalated its confrontation with Cuba by charging former Cuban leader Raúl Castro and five former military officials with murder, conspiracy and destruction of aircraft over the 1996
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According to documents released and analyzed by the National Security Archive, the story of the Brothers to the Rescue shootdown did not begin in the skies over Cuba, but in a growing
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More than three decades after two civilian aircraft were shot down over international waters in the Caribbean, the United States is moving toward a dramatic legal confrontation with Cuba’s former president Raúl
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May Day is the most important public celebration in Cuba. This year, which marked the 100th anniversary of Fidel Castro’s birth, carried special significance in light of heightened US aggression. Over 5 million Cubans reportedly
More by Our Diplomatic Affairs Editor Cuba is not merely experiencing a crisis. It is living through the slow unravelling of a political project that once promised dignity through equality and sovereignty through
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The United States and Cuba have entered a new and unexpected phase of diplomatic engagement, marked by an extraordinary meeting in Havana between the director of the CIA and Cuba’s top internal
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Cuba has announced that it has run out of fuel entirely, triggering a new phase in the island’s deepening economic and humanitarian crisis as prolonged blackouts, transportation breakdowns, and pressure on hospitals
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Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez has sharply rejected claims by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio that Washington offered $100 million in humanitarian aid to the island, describing the allegation as a
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The Spanish government has begun using a debt conversion programme with Cuba to fund humanitarian support, including the delivery of food to the island’s population amid a severe economic and social crisis.
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US President Donald Trump sparked international concern after declaring that the United States could “take Cuba almost immediately” once the conflict with Iran is resolved. The remarks were delivered during a private
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Sixty-five years after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, newly declassified documents have shed stark new light on one of the most consequential intelligence failures of the Cold War, revealing how close
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In ‘Freedom Park’ (S’kumbuto) outside Pretoria (South Africa), there is a Wall of Names that honors the men and women who died in the fight to liberate South Africa from apartheid. Amongst
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