Cuba has a new president — and for the first time in six decades his last name is not Castro. Who is Miguel Díaz-Canel, the man who inherits a Cuba born of Fidel’s 1959 revolution?
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Miguel Díaz-Canel, a 57-year-old engineer and Communist Party loyalist, is expected to succeed Raúl Castro as president of Cuba. Will change bring prosperity or instability to the Cuban people?
When women are remembered as part of the Communist or any other political tradition it’s often as an afterthought, or as part of the support system of the revolution.
Venezuela is long gone; say hello to Cuba-zuela.
Cuba won’t tolerate the high social costs paid by China and Vietnam in their shift to market capitalism, but its economy desperately needs a reboot.
The president restored restrictions on Americans’ travel to Cuba and prohibited transactions with its military. Here’s why, and what’s to come.
With its uncharismatic president and liberalising economy, Cuba already looks less like North Korea and more like China or Vietnam.
The legitimacy and credibility of those in power has been eroded by bad governance, patronage and the obsession to claim an exclusive agency representing the people.
Castro realised early on in his revolution just how powerful a tool photography could be.
Fidel Castro was no fan of his brother’s plans to normalize relations with the US or open the economy. Does his death suggest those plans might accelerate?
In a gloomy year filled, a number of artists with an Afrofuturist perspective gave hope with inspired works of art.
The Cuban leader even acted as an unofficial editor for the Nobel Prize-winning author.
Many Ethiopians regard Castro as the man who saved their country. Somalis view him as the man who denied them the Greater Somalia re-union
Critics point to low income and food shortages, but when judging the Cuban leader it’s important to look at the whole story.
Under Fidel Castro, Cuba declared itself as an atheist state. Castro’s relationship with religion, however, was far more complex. It left a deep impact on the religious identity of Cuba.
A brave foreign policy changed history in Angola and South Africa.
At first, the Cuban revolution seemed doomed to fail.
An American who trained to be a doctor in Cuba gives his views of the island’s health service.
How the motivations of Cuban doctors choosing to go on missions abroad have changed.
More than any other, Venezuela is a country of Cuba’s making. But its own national tragedy is too deep for most citizens to mourn Fidel Castro’s death.
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Professor of Government, American University School of Public Affairs
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Director, Latin American Business Environment program, University of Florida
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Senior Lecturer in Latin American Studies & Visual Culture, Royal Holloway University of London
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Professor in Global Sustainable Development, University of Warwick
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Associate Professor, Global Studies, Appalachian State University
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Senior Lecturer at the Frederick S Pardee School in Global Studies, Boston University, Boston University
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Chair in Latin American Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Nottingham
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Senior Lecturer in Spanish and Latin American Studies, University of Chester
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Professor, Global Development Studies and History, Queen's University, Ontario
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Professor of Political Science, Georgia State University
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Senior researcher, Centre for Social Change, University of Johannesburg
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Knight Chair in Sports Journalism and Society, Penn State
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Professor and Head of Department of Political and Conflict Studies, Nelson Mandela University
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NRF Accredited & Senior Researcher; Lead Coordinator of the South-South Educational Collaboration & Knowlede Interchange Initiative, Cape Peninsula University of Technology
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Professor of World Politics, SOAS, University of London
