By Dr. Daud Abdullah on April 9, 2023
Jose Cabañas, foto: Bill Hackwell
Jose Ramon Cabañas Rodriguez served in the Cuban diplomatic service for 37 years. In 2015 he became his country’s first ambassador to the United States in 50 years. During his long and distinguished career, Cabañas was involved in some of the most difficult diplomatic challenges Cuba faced in recent decades. (more…)
By José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez on March 24, 2023
Thanks to a kind invitation from the Cuban Academy of Sciences (ACC) we had the opportunity to participate in the High Level Workshop, jointly organized by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the highest Cuban scientific institution. (more…)
By José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez on February 27, 2023
On February 26, 1982, then-President Ronald Reagan instructed his Secretary of State to include Cuba on the list of countries that sponsor terrorism, in accordance with the provisions of legislation passed three years earlier, known as the Export Administration Act (Section 6). (more…)
By José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez on February 11, 2023
“Bob I really need to talk to you about Cuba.”
As happens every year, the act known as the presidential State of the Union address has just taken place in the U.S. Capitol, an exercise that has been carried out publicly and uninterruptedly since 1913 and that aims to provide a kind of balance on the situation of the country and the development of the agenda of the president, who at that time is in power. George Washington initiated the practice in 1790, but Thomas Jefferson discontinued it (the public session) in 1801. (more…)
By José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez on January 20, 2023 from Havana
The total number of undocumented migrants from Cuba is once again in the news. Once again this issue is related to the occurrence of an economic crisis in the country and the disrespect to the migration agreements signed between Cuba and the United States. In U.S. public opinion, the treatment of Cubans is perceived as a singularity that can be questioned. (more…)
By José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez on December 20, 2022
The twentieth edition of the series of dialogues on Cuba in U.S. foreign policy, an exercise organized by the Center for International Policy Research (CIPI) at the headquarters of the Raúl Roa Higher Institute of International Relations since the dawn of the 21st century, has just concluded. (more…)
By José Ramón Cabañas on November 23, 2022
The statue of Fidel Castro in Moscow. photo: Alijandro Azcuy
In order to understand Fidel Castro’s contribution to Political Science and, in particular, to the sphere of International Relations, especially in regard to Cuba’s ties with the United States, one must start from the precedent of the work and practice of José Martí, the Cuban National Hero, and the latter’s influence on the former’s thought and action. (more…)
By José Ramòn Cabañas Rodríguez on November 15, 2022
A week after the mid-term elections in the United States dawns and we still do not know who will have the majority in the House of Representatives, nor the definitive data on the Senate, where, if there will be Democratic dominance, it will be minimal, and the data has fallen in drips and drabs during the last week. (more…)