Sean Penn Reflects on Chávez and Castro
Brett Story & VideoNation : Foreign Leaders & Political Figures
Actor-director Sean Penn debunks the many myths surrounding Cuba's Raúl Castro and Venezuela's Hugo Chávez.
Brett Story & VideoNation : Foreign Leaders & Political Figures
Actor-director Sean Penn debunks the many myths surrounding Cuba's Raúl Castro and Venezuela's Hugo Chávez.
Sean Penn : Hugo Chavez
The Cuban President talks about Obama, Guantánamo and the Pentagon; the Venezuelan President considers human rights and the next US administration.
Jordana Timerman
After fifty years of revolution, a change of leadership offers the possibility of significant change. But the average Cuban seems to have no idea how to proceed.
Robert Scheer : Fidel Castro
He caused the Cuban people much suffering, but the giant to the north bears even greater responsibility for the island's plight.
Peter Kornbluh : Fidel Castro
Most authoritarians leave office in a coup or a coffin. Fidel Castro is leaving on his own terms.
: History
An excerpt from Fidel Castro: My Life, a spoken autobiography.
The CIA's role in his assassination managed to turn a failed--and flawed--guerrilla fighter into an enduring symbol of resistance to oppression.
Rosa Miriam Elizalde : Feminism & Women
A Cuban writer pays tribute to Vilma Espín, wife of Raúl Castro and Cuba's first lady, who fought tirelessly for the rights of women in a male-dominated country.
Rosa Miriam Elizalde : Theater
A Cuban children's troupe has performed around the globe but finds it almost impossible to enter the United States.
Cuban-American moderates are on the rise, but hard-liners still run the show.
Julia E. Sweig : US Foreign Policy
The peaceful transfer of power in Cuba presents an opportunity for the US government to abandon its policy of perpetual hostility.
John Dinges : Journalists & Journalism
After three foreign correspondents are decertified, is Cuba sending a message to the international press corps?
Whose astonishing wisdom led to preserving a statue of the monstrous Ferdinand VII in Havana?
Peter Kornbluh : US Foreign Policy
Five Cuban counterterrorism experts are being held indefinitely in American prisons while the "bin Laden of Latin America" is let free.
Peter Kornbluh, Alberto Coll, Saul Landau, William LeoGrande, Philip Peters & Ramón Sánchez-Parodi : US Foreign Policy
A panel of experts explores the view from Havana.
The US government's policy toward Cuba is imperial, irrational, arguably insane. It's time to change it.
Ricardo Alarcón : Cultural Criticism & Analysis
Remembering the remarkable life and work of the American sociologist who, despite FBI harassment, remained engaged in the Cuban Revolution.
The godfather of vicious anti-Castro violence, Luis Posada Carriles will soon be released from US custody. Is that any way to treat a terrorist?
Few Americans, especially those in government, know much about Cuba. And nowhere is that more evident than in the coverage of Fidel Castro's illness and the transition of power.
As Iraq burns and Castro recovers, the Bush Administration's schemes to further "Cuba's transition to democracy" ring more hollow than ever.
Long before oil dominated geopolitics, rum was the original global commodity, tying Europe, the Americas, Africa and the Caribbean in a complex web of trade and credit. And Bacardi was the original multinational.
Peter Kornbluh : War on Terrorism
Will the Bush Administration recognize that anti-Castro radical Luis Posada Carriles is a terrorist?