Cuba Policy

Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune Dec 29, 2014 Dig deeper

A Win for the Cuban People

Eugene Robinson / Truthdig Dec 20, 2014 President Obama's historic opening to Cuba is long overdue -- and has a chance of hastening the Castro dictatorship's demise. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Truthdiggers of the Week: Cuban Medical Workers Fighting Ebola

BLANK Nov 18, 2014 When the deadly international health crisis is over, the world will be morally indebted to a tiny island nation that has suffered economic attack from the U.S. for more than half a century. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Riddles, Lies and Lives — Castro, Muhammad Ali, Einstein and Barbie

By Eduardo Galeano, TomDispatch Aug 18, 2014 It was not by Lucifer’s curse or God’s miracle that the new country managed to outlive 10 U.S. presidents, their napkins spread in their laps, ready to eat it with knife and fork. His enemies do not say that in spite of sorrow, external aggression and internal high-handedness, the distressed island spawned the least unjust society in Latin America. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Why Isn’t Anybody Talking About the Major Oil Discovery in Australia?

Staff / Truthdig Nov 26, 2013 Crude found outside a small town in the land down under nearly outnumbers all the reserves in Saudi Arabia; former Cuban President Fidel Castro believes JFK's assassination was part of a larger conspiracy; meanwhile, French President Francois Hollande stands up to Israel. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

A Leading Critic of American Hypocrisy Goes Quiet

Peter Z. Scheer / Truthdig Sep 11, 2013 Saul Landau, a prolific filmmaker, writer and Truthdig contributor, died Monday from a fight with cancer. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Castro Brothers’ Reign to End by 2018

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Feb 27, 2013 Raul Castro announced Sunday that his new presidential term would be his last as the "founding generation" of Cuba's 1959 revolution gives "new generations the responsibility to continue building socialism." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Island and the Owner

Arcadio Esquivel, Cagle Cartoons, La Prensa, Panama Jul 10, 2012 Dig deeper

Everyone’s a Critic, Including Fidel Castro

Staff / Truthdig Jan 26, 2012 "The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive empire is -- and I mean this seriously -- the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been," writes Fidel Castro, who echoes the sentiments expressed by many columnists and commentators spanning the middle to left of our politics. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

What Hugo Chavez Is Up To

Staff / Truthdig Sep 28, 2011 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been busy courting countries from Latin America to Eastern Europe to the Middle East to the Far East to assemble a political and economic bulwark against American imperialism. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Fidel Castro Surfaces to Criticize Obama

Staff / Truthdig Sep 27, 2011 Barack Obama's recent U.N. speech on "the pursuit of peace in an imperfect world" failed to impress Fidel Castro, who, in a newspaper column, called the text "gibberish" and asked, "Has any nation been excluded from the bloody threats of this illustrious defender of international peace and security?" (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Murdoch: The Emperor Has No Clothes

Richard Reeves / Truthdig Jul 21, 2011 The big guy always knows what's going on, which is part of how he got to be the big man (or woman). Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )