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.... In the space of a month, it henceforth treat each other as full-fledged came closer to trading blows with China sovereign states. Predictably, Beijing re­ than it had since the Korean War and with acted by warning the islanders “not to un­ Cuba since the Missile Crisis. Although both derestimate...

...Lissa Weinmann Copyright © 2004 World Policy Institute 2004 Lissa Weinmann directs programs on Cuba and the Americas a t the World Policy Institute in New York City. Washington’s Irrational Cuba Policy Lissa Weinmann Washington’s policy toward Cuba over...

...Devyn Spence Benson When the Communist Party seized control of Cuba in 1959, itlaunched an anti-racism campaign, and, after only three years, declared victory: Racism was over; everyone was equal. Despite the government’s embrace of a colorblind ideology, Devyn Spence Benson writes that Cubans...

...Amanda Mattingly © World Policy Institute 2015 2015 World Policy Institute Photo: Amanda Mattingly CIENFUEGOS, Cuba—Cienfuegos sits between Havana and Trinidad, just off a long stretch of road flanked by empty fields. Appropriately, it was almost 100 degrees there in April when...

...Ned Sublette Copyright © 2004 World Policy Institute 2004 VOICES Ned Sublette is a 2003-04 fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. His book, Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo, w ill...

...Daniel P. Erikson Copyright © 2004 World Policy Institute 2004 Daniel P. Erikson is director of Caribbean programs at the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington, D.C. Castro and Latin America: A Second Wind? Daniel P. Erikson Is Cuba’s influence in Latin America...

... in Guantanamo, Cuba. In a region where most of the economy is based on cotton and sugar crops, his father supported the family with a blue-collar job. Juan’s mother stayed at home. As is the story across much of the three Americas, Juan’s Cuba was built through the miscegenation of natives, colonizers...

... traditional authoritarian language, anti-democratic practices, and increasing concentration of control, such a scenario is difficult to envision. Moreover, the current high levels of dependency of Cuba’s economy on Venezuela suggest that Havana will continue providing its self-indulgent support and expertise...

... and to the north dicted, never came to pass. We have not an­ where European settlers— British, French, nexed Cuba or Canada. There is no likeli­ Spanish— had established themselves. Jeffer­ hood that we ever will. The record hardly son thought Cuba “the most interesting sustains the thesis of a people red...

.... Southern Command through the invitation of ideologically sym­ mentioned Cuba only in connection with pathetic governments. Consequently, Wash­ management of the U.S. detention facility at ington’s security concerns in the region cen­ Guantanamo Bay.5 tered on preventing leftist governments Classical...

... aware that McGeorge Bundy, JF K ’s national security adviser, was a nonsmoker. More substantially, the crisis is viewed almost exclusively through American eyes. One would never guess that Nikita Khrushchev had plausible grounds for fearing an American invasion of Cuba, or for worrying about...

... right- unprecedented 6 l percent of the vote— wing fears about the possible reactivation then-Secretary of the Treasury Paul O ’Neill of Brazil’s nuclear weapons program and sought to calm nervous investors by noting an emerging “hostile alliance of Cuba, that “Lula was not a crazy...

... point convinced himself that I would be killed by communists because they would like to install a communist regime here. For them, Portugal would then become the Cuba of Europe. Yet I am still here. Portugal will always solve very well its own problems. WPJ: So these small European countries...

... for the middle class. Writer Christopher Reeve describes an exodus of talent from Venezuela as economic conditions deteriorate for its most educated citizens. Latin America, as many of our writers stress in the Big Question section, is not homogenous. Cuba has a unique dilemma: Unlike Venezuela, which...

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... in Cuba, the island nation barely 240 miles from the U.S. mainland. Kennedy, of course, couched the issue more directly as a Soviet-American confrontation in a Cold War context. But, in fact, it was very much the Old World trespassing quite directly on the New World, just as Monroe sought to prevent more...

.... Brazil is experiencing a turbulent moment, both economically and politically. For the past 12 years, the country has maintained its role as a regional leader. While funding infrastructure projects such as the Mariel Port in Cuba may have been a clever move internationally, inside the country it has been...

... seen the light and wishes to join the com­ dent States; only 10 percent named commu­ munity of civilized nations is difficult for nist states such as China, Cuba, and North many to accept or comprehend. But this Korea.2 misses the continuity of Russian policy to­ Although...