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…)
By José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez on June 29, 2022
image: portal cuba
Olga Lidia had serious doubts at first when she was asked to travel to the United States illegally via Central America. At her age, she didn’t think she was physically fit to undertake a journey that would take her through countries, jungles, rivers, and put her life in the hands of several coyotes. What she wasn’t prepared for was being separated from her daughter on the day the traffickers told her that her relatives in Miami hadn’t paid the full price agreed upon before the journey began. (more…)
By José Ramón Cabañas May 30, 2022
José Ramón Cabañas, photo: Bill Hackwell
For more than a decade, the Center for International Policy Research, attached to MINREX, in conjunction with several Cuban research centers, has annually developed the Foreign Policy Scenarios exercise. (more…)
By José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez on May 20, 2022
In most public presentations by U.S. politicians the word democracy is repeated over and over again, but without offering definitions about the concept they are referring to. From their perspective, democracy is something supreme that would be above a specific social economic regime, above the very idea of nation, giving the impression of being an inclusive space, when in fact it is the opposite. (more…)