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limonta
4 days ago
Can the Left in Latin America Rebuild Itself?
First, we have to distinguish which Left is supposed to return, or what we are prepared to settle for. In this regard, the first question...
limonta
6 days ago
Is This What the Right Came Back For?
The right has done little more than drive the knife deeper into the wounds inflicted by the left on itself, right where the blood was alr...
limonta
10 days ago
Cuba's Socialist Project in the Age of Donald Trump
Following the devastating collapse of the USSR, Cuba's political leadership, then headed by Fidel Castro, embarked on a turbulent process...
limonta
12 days ago
The Challenge of Apportioning Responsibility for Cuba’s Polycrisis
Apportioning causal responsibility for Cuba’s polycrisis between external and internal factors remains a largely unexplored scientific en...
limonta
15 days ago
Cuba and Donald Trump’s Ambassador to the UN
On Tuesday and Wednesday, Florida native Mike Waltz stood before the UN General Assembly, in his capacity as ambassador to the internatio...
limonta
last month
Che Guevara’s Legacy According to Benigno
Within the Cuban revolutionary tradition, from 1959 to the present day, Che Guevara is undoubtedly the hero I sympathize with most. I hav...
limonta
2 months ago
The Current State of Cuba's Comprehensive Crisis
Since this island connected to the world in the late fifteenth century—with Christopher Columbus's arrival on its shores—crisis has been ...
limonta
3 months ago
Is It Rational to Demand Economic Independence from Cuba?
I tend to be perplexed when some dilettantes in political science demand that Cuba become an economically independent country. That is, a...
limonta
4 months ago
The Latin American Report: Why Did Cuba End Up Alone?
First, this is a regressive dynamic that has been building for some time. What we're witnessing now is simply the most extreme point of t...
limonta
5 months ago
Wealth, Dynasty, and the Limits of Latin American Democracy
Wealth and lineage are two unmistakable sources feeding the core of political life. They may clash against the more or less successful at...
limonta
5 months ago
Arturo Sandoval and Political Intolerance
Some years ago, I was in communication with the great Cuban trumpeter Arturo Sandoval—the godson of the unforgettable Dizzy Gillespie—thr...
limonta
5 months ago
Putting the spotlight where it belongs
Aswering this from a longtime CNN correspondent in Havana In Sagua de Tánamo, my hometown municipality in Holguín, they had gone 33 ho...
limonta
5 months ago
Chris Van Hollen vs. Marco Rubio on Cuba
The brief exchange between Senator Chris Van Hollen and Marco Rubio this Tuesday reveals the irrationality that this administration embod...
limonta
6 months ago
Cuba, the “Independence Day,” and the indictment against Raúl Castro
As is customary every year, the sitting U.S. president issued the official statement because of the date on which Cuba was formally const...
limonta
6 months ago
On the incredible deportation of Alex Saab
The incoherence of Venezuelan "leadership"—if you can even call "leadership" a "power" structure that has n...
limonta
6 months ago
Cuba and the Quest for Peace
I am firmly convinced that if the United States' rationale is that Cuba must negotiate its political future with it—id est, the specific...
limonta
6 months ago
Cuba and the crass cynicism of the Trump administration
Source Right now, about a third of Cuba is disconnected from the national power system, which suffered another partial collapse—the umpte...
limonta
7 months ago
The Latin American Report # 720
Peru: The victory of weariness Blank and null votes in Peru (3,142,121) exceed by 17% the total votes obtained by Keiko Fujimori—the eld...
limonta
7 months ago
Did Cuba send mercenaries to support Russia in Ukraine?
It has been more than two years with this question in the air, and the short answer is that there is no smoking-gun evidence to support ...
limonta
7 months ago
A quick read of the Cuban president's interview with NBC News
Miguel Díaz-Canel, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, gave a histori...
limonta
7 months ago
The first cracks in Delcy's reign in Venezuela?
In recent hours, it has been interesting to monitor the protests that have broken out in Venezuela demanding a wage increase, given that...
limonta
7 months ago
AI models imagine a liberal, capitalist Cuba, but still sanctioned
Time and again, when I talk with my closest friends from my university years—one lives in Uruguay, another in Spain, and the third in the...
limonta
7 months ago
The Latin American Report # 715
Iran's top diplomat in Buenos Aires left Argentina this Saturday, according to the chancellor of Javier Milei's government, as stated by...
limonta
7 months ago
PeakD
Cuba is releasing 2,010 prisoners: What it means for its immediate future?
Source The Cuban government has taken the important and long-awaited step of approving a mass pardon, whereby 2,010 people deprived of th...
limonta
7 months ago
"Who's in Charge Here?" Venezuela's Agony Under Trump's Grip
It's been a while since we last updated Venezuela. For me, it's a painful exercise because it is conclusive proof of how crude the world...
limonta
7 months ago
Russian Crude Reaches Cuba Amid U.S.-Forced Drought
The Cuban Foreign Ministry thanked Moscow this Tuesday for the shipment of some 730,000 barrels of Urals crude, after an involuntary fas...
limonta
8 months ago
Hive.Blog
The Latin American Report # 712
The effects of the war in Iran are being felt across the region, and Chile is a country where they are evidenced more strongly following...
limonta
8 months ago
Mexico does not let Cuba be erased from the map
While she understood that she could not compromise her country's economy by going against the oil blockade policy imposed by Trump on Cu...
limonta
8 months ago
The Cuban government makes an interesting diplomatic move
In the midst of growing tension with the United States, a high-ranking Cuban diplomat has revealed to the alternative left-wing outlet D...
limonta
8 months ago
After some three months, Cuba could receive fuel again through Russia. Will Washington allow it?
Two tankers carrying Russian crude oil and derivatives that potentially have Cuba as their destination place even more spotlight on the ...