During the Cuban missile crisis, World War III was likely averted by what one US official called ‘just plain dumb luck.’
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Beloved in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, Jimmy Carter became the 39th US president and used his office to make human rights a priority throughout the world.
The 26 of July Movement became a central part of the movement that emerged triumphant in early January 1959.
Carter’s work in Zimbabwe forms a significant and under appreciated part of his legacy
The island is facing the harshest economic conditions since the 1990s, prompting 224,000 people to leave in 12 months.
Cuba has handled COVID well, but sanctions and economic uncertainty are causing unrest among some sections of society.
After Fidel Castro took power, government plans to build new housing, schools and factories were hindered by sanctions and supply chain issues, forcing architects to come up with creative solutions.
Cuba: It’s complicated.
Experts explain the recent history behind the rare public outpouring of anger in Cuba.
Just as Fidel Castro’s 2016 death did not transform US-Cuba ties, his brother Raul’s exit from politics is unlikely to do so. But Cuba itself is changing. Eventually, Havana and Washington will, too.
The New York Times gave in to White House pressure and did not publish crucial information about an impending US-backed invasion of Cuba. It’s an old story, much repeated – but it’s wrong.
Joe Biden could return to the path blazed by Barack Obama on Cuba, when two years of bilateral negotiations helped undo more than five decades of hostility.
An intense controversy over sending Canadian teens to Cuba to cut sugar cane in the 1970s raises questions about why WE Charity’s international development approach hasn’t been controversial for years.
Cuba stresses its programme to send doctors abroad is based in solidarity. But there are diplomatic and economic reasons too.
A former congressional staffer says withholding damning evidence from Congress and using civilians to carry out presidential or intelligence agency agendas links the Ukraine crisis to other scandals.
Some Cuban entrepreneurs are so openly anti-communist that they sound like, well, capitalists.
The ugly turn in Canadian-Cuba relations stemming from Canada’s new visa requirements puts at risk decades of creative, productive connections between Cuban and Canadian people.
A first-ever official royal visit now signals a sea change in British foreign policy towards post-Fidel Cuba.
Cuban exiles in the US may soon be able to sue companies that use property seized from them in the Cuban revolution. If Trump moves to allow that, it could slow economic development in Cuba.
On Dec. 10, 1903, the US military leased 45 square miles of Cuban territory to build a naval base. How did Guantanamo Bay become an infamous prison for alleged terrorists?
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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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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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