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…)
By José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez on April 27, 2022
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After four years in which the United States was unwilling to hold official talks with Cuba on the issue of migration, delegations from both countries met in Washington, D.C., on April 21 for that purpose. (more…)
By José Ramón Cabañas on February 16, 2022
In recent months, both Cuban cybernauts and foreign diplomats residing in Cuba have been surprised by the unabashed way in which both the State Department in Washington and its embassy in Havana have incorporated into their daily routine the issuance of judgments and opinions on the Cuban internal reality (more…)