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Cuba

Echoes of Havana: a harmful influence in the realm of ideas

Cuban influence has historically materialized on two main fronts: cultural diplomacy and academic intervention in the region.

Journalism as political distinction in Cuba

In autocratic, authoritarian or totalitarian regimes, where power is assumed as a staged representation, information loses its character as a public good and becomes an exercise in communicative manipulation.

Amnesty Now: The Fight to Free Cuba’s Political Prisoners

An amnesty law in Cuba is not merely a political or legal objective: it is a moral obligation for those who embody courage and resistance against repression.

The Cuban regime seeks to charge independent journalist J. G. Barrenechea with ‘sedition’

José Gabriel Barrenechea resorts to a hunger strike to demand his release from arbitrary arrests related to the blackouts.

Cuba in 2024

These are the living conditions for myself and my neighbors in a small municipality in the province of Villa Clara.

Half of Cubans believe the socialist model should be abandoned

While the decline in support for democracy in Latin America is due to its inefficiency in generating more equality before the law, justice, dignity and wealth distribution, the Cuban case should serve as a reminder that authoritarianism does not provide these either.