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Opinion: Cuba’s two conundrums
Cuba’s new president, Miguel Diaz-Canel, has two problems to fix. First, the country’s increasingly youthful population demands the goods and services they know are available elsewhere. Second, Cuba has lost most of the international support system that propped up its socialist welfare state. To resolve both, he must open up the economy – but by doing so, he will give the Communist Party and the intelligence services more leverage to use against him.
The United States and Cuba: a way forward
The United States and Cuba already have gained a lot from a thaw in mutual relations that ended 54 years of hostility. For the fragile process of normalization to continue, both former adversaries need to adopt creative solutions to formidable obstacles on the way.
Mr. Obama goes to Havana
United States President Barack Obama will visit Cuba on Monday, March 21. He will be the first sitting president to do so in 88 years. The trip carries some historic weight for Mr. Obama, as it highlights an accomplished foreign policy breakthrough; he first pronounced a push for rapprochement with ...
Commercial revival is the next step as US-Cuba thaw continues
In 1961, President Dwight Eisenhower officially severed diplomatic relations with Cuba, shuttering the United States embassy in Havana. The move marked the beginning of half a century of diplomatic hibernation, a sleep so deep that it survived the thawing of the Cold War by a full generation. Then, on December ...
US-Cuba relations - Now comes the hard part
The rapprochement between Cuba and the United States has gone better than anyone might have expected since the plan to normalise relations was announced in December 2014, writes Dr Joseph S. Tulchin.US President Barack Obama met Cuba’s President Raul Castro at the seventh Summit of the Americas in Panama in ...
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