An International Workers’ Day demonstration on May 1, 2026, in Havana includes a protest of the ongoing U.S. blockade of oil to Cuba.
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Cubans are living in a state of limbo, and it’s not clear that US military intervention would revitalize the Cuban economy.
Cuba’s American liberators, depicted on the left in a political cartoon from 1898 and on the right in an AI image.
Cartoon: Blanche S. Crawford, Cartoon History of the Spanish American War (Scrapbook, 1898), 48. AI image: screenshot from Instagram. Images for this article sourced by Jorge Damian de la Paz.
The 26 of July Movement became a central part of the movement that emerged triumphant in early January 1959.
A rare unauthorized public gathering in Havana on July 11, 2021. Some demonstrators on the streets that day chanted ‘Down with the dictatorship.’
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