Vapid Cuban Documentarian Unwittingly Stumbles into Country's Despairs
Jon Alpert spent decades asking incredibly dumb questions of Fidel Castro.
Jon Alpert spent decades asking incredibly dumb questions of Fidel Castro.
Havana's stunning Gran Hotel Manzana is owned by the Cuban military, making it off-limits to Americans.
Starvation won't turn Cubans into capitalists. Trade and tourism might.
Documentary navigates complex custody fight between Cuba, United States, and Cuban-Americans.
Embargoes don't work. Let capitalism and socialism duke it out.
A discussion about last week's congressional shooting, Michelle Carter, Cuba sanctions, and DnD Creator Gary Gygax.
The president rolls back some of Obama's "completely one-sided deal with Cuba," reasserts that America will be a champion of liberty in "our hemisphere."
The chilling encounter was captured on video.
Nelson Rodriguez Chartrand, involved in poster campaign for previously arrested Cuban libertarians, has disappeared, his associates report.
The Party, named after famed 19th century Cuban independence fighter Jose Marti, is putting up posters of the incarcerated activists around Havana.
The Cuban defector and Chicago White Sox star's bizarre tale is indicative of how ridiculous immigration policy can be.
Eliminating 'Wet Foot/Dry Foot' has been a longtime goal of immigration reformers and restrictionists alike, though Cuban-Americans remain split.
Even with free health care and education, some Cubans are still willing to risk their life for free expression.
Turns out you shouldn't trust dictatorships to provide reliable data on health care and education.
Two offerings coincide with strongman's death.
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Cuba has a two-tier healthcare system like all communist countries, lags in other indicators, and lacks basic human rights.
There was a time when many Americans perceived Cuba's late leader as a hero.
Bad things happen when you wave off cases of individual repression, either home or abroad.
Following Fidel Castro's death, Republicans want to revert to a policy that failed for half a century.
Politicians and tyrants alike heap praise on the despot who ruled over an island prison nation.
The father-to-be was one of three killed in a late-night boating accident.
Reality TV star apparently unfazed by mass misery and decaying infrastructure.
Dictatorships may value literacy as much as democracies, but they value life a lot less.
Venerable progressive mag argues in favor of a repressive regime controlling access to information, because it beats "corporate control."
The Rolling Stones prepare their historic concert in a country that once banned the Beatles and still harasses artistic free expression
President tells Cuban people the US will not impose any system on them; calls on Castro to "not fear" democracy.
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Dictator makes incredible claim a day after scores of dissidents were arrested.
Demagogic Cuban-American demagogues in support of a failed policy
"The economic agenda *is* the human rights agenda," says Arizona's Jeff Flake.
"These aren't sanctions on *Cubans*," he says, "they are sanctions on *Americans.*"
The old rule notionally exposed Americans to criminal penalties for buying and consuming Cuban cigars while abroad.
"I have no idea," Lech Walesa told the Arizona Republican, "why you guys have a museum of socialism 90 miles from your shore & you won't let anybody visit it."
The democratic socialist has a history of defending very undemocratic socialism.
As two Cuban-Americans fight their way toward the presidency, are Cubans about to lose their special immigration status?
Another step in normalizing relations between the two countries.
If millennials really do dig socialism, there's a museum of it just 90 miles south of Miami.
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