* Jaime Suchlicki Cubans can not: • Travel abroad without government permission. • Change jobs without government permission. • Change residence without government permission. • Access the Internet without government permission (the Internet is closely monitored and controlled by the government. Less than 10% of the population has access to the Internet). • Send their children to […]
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* Jaime Suchlicki Despite mounting economic difficulties, the Cuban government is not likely to open up Cuba’s economy or to offer meaningful concessions to the U.S. for normalization of relations. The short-lived period of “normalization” between the U.S. and Cuba under President Obama was characterized by U.S. major concessions – lifting of the travel
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*By Pedro Roig Eduardo Chibás Ribas (1907-1951) is remembered as one of the first Cuban politicians that used radio, modern broadcasting technique, to reach an immense audience. By the 1950s one in five Cubans owned a radio. It was a way of entering in hundred of thousands of homes, and talk directly to the Cubans. Chibás had the
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*By Pedro Roig On August 12, 1933, president-turned dictator, Gerardo Machado escaped from Cuba. In over eight years he had gone from an immensely popular president to an arrogant, greedy, and despised tyrant. In his first term (1925-1928), Machado successfully implemented his campaign promises of a national regeneration. It was a great beginning and a tragic end. On
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El 31 de julio es el día de San Ignacio de Loyola, fundador de la Compañía de Jesús, que marca la muerte de quien fue Apóstol de los Evangelios, de la piedad, y el sacrificio en defensa de la fe. San Ignacio es patrono y maestro de los Ejercicios Espirituales concebidos para fortalecer la voluntad,
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* Jaime Suchlicki The Domestic Scene The limited economic changes introduced by Gen. Raúl Castro in Cuba encouraged some observers to proclaim the end of communism and the dismantling of the totalitarian system in the island. Notwithstanding Raúl Castro’s own statements that he was not elected to restore capitalism, these observers insisted on their belief
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“Iran and Cuba, in cooperation with each other, can bring America to its knees. The U.S. regime is very weak, and we are witnessing this weakness from close up.” Fidel Castro, during his tour of Iran, Syria, and Libya. Agence France Press, May 10, 2001. CUBA’S COMMITMENT TO VIOLENCE, TERRORISM AND ANTI-AMERICANISM Jaime Suchlicki
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Note: The following article highlights Russian actions in Cuba that may have major implications for U.S.-Russian relations and for Cuba. If Putin is willing now to challenge U.S. security interests in the U.S. own backyard, it may represent a threat perhaps as dangerous as Khrushchev surreptitious introduction of nuclear missiles in Cuba in 1962. Russian
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The Military Elite of Cuba The Castro Totalitarian Legacy Pedro Roig J.D. and Alvaro Alba M.A. Reviewed by Jaime Suchlicki, Ph.D. Download PDF version here THE ELITE ARMY CORP GENERALS IN ACTIVE SERVICE The appointment of Manuel Marrero, on December 21, as Prime Minister. In the first row, from left to right, Raul Castro Ruz
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* By Jaime Suchlicki Faithful to Lenin’s ideas that the school should “educate and prepare members of the Communist society,” the Castro revolution used education as the instrument to build the new society – to develop the socialist man. Speaking of the educational aims of the revolutionary regime, party Organization Secretary Armando Hart explained that the
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