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Opinion: Is Cuba entering another ‘Special Period’?
While the regime in Havana has successfully transitioned to a younger team with a new constitution, Cuba’s economic situation looks increasingly dire. Funding and petroleum from its main sponsor, Venezuela, has run dry, and Washington has ratcheted up sanctions. Can the Cuban regime weather the storm again? And if so, at what cost to the country’s people?
Cuba in transition
Cuba will get a new leader in April, after President Raul Castro hands over the presidency to First Vice President Miguel Diaz-Canel. As the country tentatively introduces decentralizing reforms and embraces globalization, the new leadership will have to answer the question of how much freedom it can allow while retaining ...
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 ...
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