They’re caught between a government that denies the existence of racism and fellow black Cubans who lack racial consciousness.
On May 4, the Network of Afro-descendant Women convened an urgent meeting of activists, academics, and members of organisations fighting [...]
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US media depict the island as stuck in the digital dark ages, but Cuba has lively cultures of connectivity that could evolve into a self-sustaining, open, and accessible digital commons.
President Obama announced his historic upcoming visit to Cuba—the first in almost [...]
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They’re divided, by generation and class, over whether it will be a good thing.
In late January, the Obama administration announced that it would remove a number of impediments to trade with Cuba by lifting restrictions on the American financing of exports, relaxing [...]
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I am very happy to share the news of my joint appointment at the rank of Professor in the Departments of Political Economy and Sociology & Social Policy at the University of Sydney, beginning May 2016. Nearly twenty years ago, I completed my BA Honors in the Department of Political [...]
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This past Wednesday, President Barack Obama made a historic announcement about the normalisation of relations with Cuba. Although there had been rumours floating around the streets of Havana, most people on both sides of the Florida Straits were taken by surprise at the new policy toward [...]
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As I originally outlined on Venezuela Analysis, on July 18, two functionaries in the western state of Yaracuy received calls on their cell phones, supposedly from a government minister, asking them to go to a local hardware store that they had recently sanctioned for price gouging. They [...]
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