Portside

Cubans have a right to self-governance. They have a right to medicine, to electricity, to water, to dignity. My father chose to leave Cuba in the face of poverty brought on by a cruel sanctions regime. I chose to return for the same reason.

The world regroups

Establishment leaders are doing everything they can to save an organization that not only meddles in sovereign countries but is willing to go rogue.

My friend was clear: the prevailing sensibility in the country was that the Cubans would fight to the very end to defend their right to a future and their refusal to return to 1958, the year before the Revolution.

The big one

We want the embargo to end. We want the cruel, inhumane oil blockade by the Trump regime to end. We want the current administration’s posturing toward war games and invasion to end. We want engagement, not escalation. We want friendship.

The Supreme Court struck down Trump’s threatened tariffs on countries that send oil to Cuba, but the crisis persists. Donald Trump issued an executive order on January 29 aimed at tightening the U.S. noose around Cuba’s neck.

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Sixty years ago, delegates from all over the world gathered in Havana for the Tricontinental Conference, forging ties of solidarity and resistance. The anniversary came last month, just as the US stepped up its aggressive campaign against Cuba.

The democracy question