A Ship Adrift: Cuba After the Pink Tide

A Ship Adrift: Cuba After the Pink Tide

With Venezuela in crisis and the Pink Tide in decline, what's next for Cuba? ...
What's Left of the Bolivarian Revolution?

What’s Left of the Bolivarian Revolution?

In difficult times, life histories by grassroots Venezuelan activists illuminate valuable lessons from the Bolivarian Revolution  ...
The Many Shades of Fidel Castro

The Many Shades of Fidel Castro

The committment of Fidel Castro and his generation to the building of an alternative model of a socialist society is ...
Why USAID Could Never Spark a Hip Hop Revolution in Cuba

Why USAID Could Never Spark a Hip Hop Revolution in Cuba

Any attempt to engineer a U.S.-affiliated movement from above is destined to be revealed for the farce that it is ...
Freedom Through a Pencil: The 1961 Literacy Campaign in Cuba

Freedom Through a Pencil: The 1961 Literacy Campaign in Cuba

Fifty years ago, in 1961, the Cuban literacy campaign mobilized more than 1 million Cubans as teachers or students. In ...
Freedom Through a Pencil: The 1961 Literacy Campaign in Cuba

Freedom Through a Pencil: The 1961 Literacy Campaign in Cuba

  Maestra, a documentary film directed by Catherine Murphy, 33 mins., Spanish and English, with English subtitles, 2011, maestrathefilm.org.   ...
Obama and the Future of Cuban-U.S. Relations

Obama and the Future of Cuban-U.S. Relations

How can we understand the prospects for U.S.-Cuba relations with the election of a Democratic president to the White House ...
The Revolutionary Imagination in Cuba and Venezuela

The Revolutionary Imagination in Cuba and Venezuela

In both Cuba and Venezuela, the revolutionary imagination has been free to develop in the domain of culture, preserving the ...
The Revolutionary Imagination in Cuba and Venezuela

The Revolutionary Imagination in Cuba and Venezuela

This piece was published in the March/April 2009 issue of the NACLA Report.  The historic revolutionary moment of January 1, ...
Latin America Looks Towards European Union

Latin America Looks Towards European Union

Latin America, once thought of as the U.S. "backyard," has been moving further out of the orbit of the United ...