By José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez on June 29, 2022
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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…)
By José Ramón Cabañas on February 8, 2022
José Ramón Cabañas with other officials from Cuba and the US at the opening of Cuban Embassy in Washington, July 20, 2015. photo: Bill Hackwell
In conversations with neighbors, experts, young people and following the thread of our national press, it is common to hear the assessment (true by the way) that there has been a brutal onslaught of the United States against Cuba in recent years. A number of arguments have been put forward that make this assertion undeniable, the evidence is everywhere. (more…)
By José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez on November 10, 2021
Jake Sullivan
On November 7, 2021, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan was questioned on a CNN program about his boss’s delay in fulfilling campaign promises regarding relations with Cuba. (more…)
By José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez on November 9, 2021
Acoustic damage? No, there is nothing worse than someone who doesn’t want to hear. Image: Osal
On October 8, 2021, Joe Biden signed into law a bill that had been unanimously passed by both the Senate and the House of Representatives, in a rare show of bipartisanship in today’s US politics. The law will be known by the suggestive name of HAVANA, as its drafters intentionally sought a title that would establish a link between the Cuban capital and the alleged, or real, health symptoms reported by US officials at their embassy since November 2016. (more…)