Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro has long been known in Cuba for his proximity to power rather than for public political ambitions. The 42-year-old grandson and former bodyguard of ex-president Raúl Castro, known
On the morning of February 25, 2026, Cuban authorities thwarted yet another terrorist attack one mile off the country’s northern coast. When it was over, four men lay dead, six more were
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These days, I find myself thinking of a character from the old Yugoslav partisan film Battle of Sutjeska. The film is dedicated to the heroic battle and Tito’s brilliant tactical maneuver to extricate
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In January 2026, US President Donald Trump declared Cuba to be an “unusual and extraordinary threat” to US security—a designation that allows the United States government to use sweeping economic restrictions traditionally
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As the White House threatens war against Cuba, I am reminded of the charming evenings my parents and I spent at Havana’s venerable ‘Floridita Bar, sipping a newly invented cocktail, the Margarita, with
More U.S. intelligence agencies have produced bleak assessments of Cuba’s economic and political condition, but those findings do not conclusively support President Donald Trump’s assertion that the communist-led island is on the brink
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Days before US forces carried out the January 3, 2026 raid that led to the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, geopolitical strategist George Friedman was already warning that Venezuela itself was
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The U.S. capture of Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro has delivered a significant blow to Cuba’s intelligence services, long regarded as among the most effective in the developing world, according to reporting by
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Nicolás Maduro was the head of the Venezuelan dictatorship, but his removal signals the coming liquidation not only of the Venezuelan cartels and thugs, but has a dramatic immediate impact on Cuba.
More Cuba’s deepening humanitarian and economic crisis is poised to worsen as the United States escalates pressure on Venezuela, the island’s most critical energy lifeline. With Venezuelan oil exports increasingly disrupted by US
More Editor’s Note: This column was originally published in The Conversation. We are republishing it as part of our syndication with them. The lights went out in Cuba again. For the fifth time in a year,
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