AQ Podcast: Today’s LGBTQ+ Politics in Latin America
An expert’s overview of the state of LGBTQ+ rights in the region, and how they relate to politics.
AQ Podcast: Cuba’s Post-Castro Chapter
The regime’s historic transition comes just as economic frustration and political dissent threaten to boil over.
How Much Change Will Cuba’s New President Bring?
Raúl Castro will hand off the presidency – likely to his vice-president Miguel Díaz-Canel – leaving Cubans to speculate on the true impact of the shift.
Here’s a Blueprint for a Trump-Castro Deal on Cuba
President-elect Donald J. Trump has vowed “to terminate the deal” that his predecessor in the White House negotiated with Cuba’s President Raúl Castro. Trump’s incoming chief-of-staff, Reince Priebus, last week added these details in an interview on “Fox News Sunday”: “Repression, open markets, freedom of religion, political prisoners – these things need to change in … Read more
China and the Cuban Economy
Since officially taking over from his brother Fidel in 2008, Raúl Castro has introduced reforms in Cuba to begin what some hope will be a period of economic liberalization. But these reforms are not necessarily moving the island nation in the direction sought by the United States for half a century. Instead, as the balance … Read more
Frustration Mounts
If the new Cuban government has a remarkable resemblance to the old, that’s because they are one and the same. No real change has taken place in Cuba. Yet. The same group that accompanied Fidel and Raúl Castro since their days in the Sierra Maestra—all now senior citizens—remains firmly at the helm of government. They … Read more
Cuba No Libre
On February 19th, Fidel Castro made it official: he was resigning the presidency and ending his 50-year reign over Cuba.
