After decades of oppression, the Cuban people are rising up against the island nation’s authoritarian regime. Protesting the shortages and economic ruin wrought by their leaders’ centralized ...

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It has been 67 years since Fidel Castro’s communist revolution in Cuba, more than enough time for the regime to create the collectivist utopia it promised at the outset. In January 1959, riding high ...

Alejandra Franganillo is a political analyst specializing in Latin American affairs and U.S.–Cuba relations. She holds a master’s in Latin American studies from Georgetown University and a bachelor’s ...

In the early 1990s, following the demise of the Soviet Union, Cuba suffered immensely. But then Venezuela, under the leadership of socialist Hugo Chavez, provided Cuba with at least the energy it ...