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Thirty years after first visiting Havana, an expert in US-Cuba relations reports on his latest visit.
Incoming Trump administration is set to adopt a more hawkish stance on Cuba-US relations – but a more targeted sanctions approach may pressure Havana without hurting the island’s impoverished people.
Cuba’s historic decline in Olympic athletes highlights the country’s deepening socioeconomic crisis and the deteriorating state of its sports programs.
Cuba’s economy – saddled by US sanctions and ill-timed reforms – is in dire straits.
Cubans turned out in higher numbers than expected at the recent elections.
An economist who once worked in Cuban’s Finance Ministry explains what caused the economic crisis and other problems fueling discontent.
Hardship is driving Cubans out on to the streets. A lot of the economic woe is due to US foreign policy.
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Research Associate, Institute of the Americas, UCL
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Associate Professor in International Development Studies, Dalhousie University
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Associate Professor of Global Studies, Appalachian State University
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Arizona State University
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Professor of Economics, Florida International University
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Professor of the Practice and Director of Center on Terrorism, Extremism and Counterterrorism, Middlebury College