Cuba, Raúl Castro and US indicts
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Pulitzer winner Ada Ferrer's of-the-moment new memoir, "Keeper of My Kin," examines the agonizing personal costs of the Cuban exile and the families left fractured in its wake.
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How Cuban History Broke a Family
The historian Ada Ferrer’s new family memoir retells the story of Cuba through the individuals who matter most to her.
The small island nation, 90 miles from Florida, has played an outsized role in American foreign policy for nearly 70 years. As President Trump talks of "taking Cuba," tensions between Washington and Havana have outlived even the late dictator Fidel Castro.
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Analysis: Cuba’s breaking point and how we got here
Never has the fate of the increasingly isolated Communist island nation been so uncertain. Something must give.
Most Americans probably know the sinking of the USS Maine in 1898 in Havana Harbor led to the Spanish-American War and helped liberate Cuba from Spain. But do they know that Cuban silver funded the battle of Yorktown during the American Revolution?
Join us for an in-person event with Ada Ferrer on her 2021 book Cuba: An American History, in conversation with Rachel Price. Cuba: An American History deftly weaves Ferrer’s own family history into the vaster half-millennium of Cuban history, narrating ...
[This is a transcript of Peter Bohmer’s Economics for Everyone panel discussion, “Stop U.S. Aggression Against Iran and Cuba”, May 7, 2026, in Olympia, Washington, USA.] Personal note: I have studied the Cuban revolution and taught about and been in solidarity with Cuba since the late 1960’s.
With charges against Raúl Castro, his pressure campaign looks ever more like the one that deposed Nicolás Maduro