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June 2013
Date Title
6/5/13 Cuba to U.S.: Ball in your court on Alan Gross case
Fox News Latino
6/3/13 Raul Castro turns 82 in reminder of aging leadership; has said this will be last term
The Washington Post
May 2013
Date Title
5/24/13 Cuba silent on Canadian's corruption trial
Bloomberg Businessweek
5/21/13 Cubans Meddled In Venezuelan Elections, Opposition Claims
Fox News Latino
5/18/13 Cuba's Raul Castro Meets With President of Russia's Federation Council
Caribbean Journal
5/1/13 Cuba exige cierre de cárcel y base militar de EEUU en Guantánamo
El Nuevo Herald
April 2013
Date Title
4/26/13 Cuban official says parliament to return to historic Capitol building after 5 decades
The Washington Post
4/26/13 Cuba's Diaz-Canel, in Haiti, Urges Accelerated Regional Integration
Caribbean Journal
4/16/13 Cuba sends "heartfelt condolences" to United States, condemns "all acts of terrorism"
The Washington Post
4/15/13 Cuba relieved as Chavez heir wins in Venezuela
Bloomberg Businessweek

Suggested Books

Without Fidel: A Death Foretold in Miami, Havana, and Washington
Without Fidel: A Death Foretold in Miami, Havana, and Washington
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Ann Louise Bardach
Scribner (2009)

Ann Louise Bardach offers a spellbinding chronicle of the Havana-Washington political showdown, drawing on nearly two decades of reporting and countless interviews with everyone from the Comandante himself, his co-ruler and brother Raúl, and other family members, to ordinary Cubans as well as officials and politicos in Miami, Havana, and Washington. The result is an unforgettable dual portrait of Fidel and Raúl Castro -- arguably the most successful and enduring political brother team in history. Since 1959, Fidel Castro has been the supreme leader of Cuba, deftly checkmating his foes, both from within and abroad; confronting eleven American presidents; and outfoxing dozens of assassination attempts, vanquished only by collapsing health. As night descends on Castro's extraordinary fifty-year reign, Miami, Havana, and Washington are abuzz with anxious questions: What led to the lightning-bolt purge of key Cuban officials in March 2009? Who will be Raúl's heir? Will the U.S. embargo end now? Bardach offers profound and surprising answers to these questions as she meticulously chronicles Castro's protracted farewell and assesses his transformative impact on the world stage and the complex legacy that will long outlive him. She reports from three distinct vantage points: In Miami, where more than one million Cubans have fled, she interviews scores of exiles including Castro's would-be assassins Orlando Bosch and Luis Posada Carriles; in Washington, DC, she reports on the Obama administration's struggle to formulate a post-Castro strategy; in Havanah she permeates the bubble around the fiercely private and officially retired Castro to ascertain the extent of his undisclosed medical condition. Bardach delivers a compelling meditation on one of the most controversial, combative, and charismatic rulers in history. Without Fidel includes never-before-published reporting on Castro, his family, and his half-century grip on the largest country in the Caribbean while assessing how his departure will forever transform politics and policy in the Western Hemisphere -- and the world.
Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know
Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know
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Julia Sweig
Oxford University Press (2009)

n Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know , Julia Sweig, one of America's leading experts on Cuba and Latin America, presents a concise and remarkably accessible portrait of the small island nation's unique place on the world stage over the past fifty years. Yet it is authoritative as well. Following a scene-setting introduction that describes the dynamics unleashed since summer 2006 when Fidel Castro transferred provisional power to his brother Raul, the book looks backward toward Cuba's history since the Spanish American War before shifting to more recent times. Focusing equally on Cuba's role in world affairs and its own social and political transformations, Sweig divides the book chronologically into the pre-Fidel era, the period between the 1959 revolution and the fall of the Soviet Union, the post-Cold War era, and-finally-the looming post-Fidel era.
The Cuban Revolution: Origins, Course and Legacy
The Cuban Revolution: Origins, Course and Legacy
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Marifeli Perez-Stable
Oxford University Press (1998)

This timely study provides a re-examination of the achievements and failures of the Cuban revolution. The Cuban Revolution places the revolution firmly within the context of twentieth century Cuban history, beginning with the inauguration of the republic in 1902 to Castro's triumphant entry into Santiago de Cuba in 1959, and hightlights the factors -- such as a one-crop (sugar) economy and U.S. intereference in Cuban affairs -- which made Cuba susceptible to revolution. While identifying nationalism and the struggle for social justice as the legitimate forces behind the revolution, Perez-Stable also provides a fresh insight into the problems facing Castro's Cuba. Arguing that the revolution actually ended in 1970, she blames its defeat on the regime's profitable yet doomed dependence on the Soviet Union and on the failure of Cuba's leaders to diversity the country's economy, sustain development, or create democratic institutions. The Cuban Revolution also focuses special attention on Cuba's confrontation with the United States. This second edition has been updated to include an entirely new chapter with coverage of the changes affecting Cuba's policies and economy since the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the failure of communism in general, as well as a new preface, an up-to-date bibliography, and a thoroughly revised concluding chapter summing up the prospects and possibilities of Cuba's future in the twenty-first century.
People's Power: Cuba's Experience with Representative Government (Updated Edition)
People's Power: Cuba's Experience with Representative Government (Updated Edition)
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Peter Roman
Rowan & Littlefield Publishers (2003)

People's Power is a theoretical, historical and analytical account of representative government that has emerged in Cuba since the 1970's. By combining original research and extensive interviews with citizens and officials, Peter Roman illustrates how the Cuban model was built on theoretical foundations derived from Rousseau, Marx, and Lenin, and the historical precedents of the 1871 Paris Commune, the 1905 and 1917 soviets, and the pre- and post-Stalin years of the Soviet Union. Cuba's contributions to this legacy--the Organs of People's Power--include unique approaches to the nomination and election of municipal assembly delegates and National Assembly deputies, to citizen input and participation, and to the role of the Communist Party. There is no other detailed study of the Cuban parliamentary system. Recorded eyewitness accounts the nominations sessions for municipal assembly delegates and the accountability sessions where citizens voice suggestions and complaints to their delegates, allow Cubans to speak for themselves. Reading this book is imperative for anyone interested in understanding the so often overlooked and misunderstood representative government that exists in Cuba today--as it has for decades.