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A gallery worker works with an artwork titled ‘World Solidarity with the Cuban Revolution’ alongside other posters by the Organization of Solidarity with the Peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Tolga Akmen /AFP via Getty Images

Trump’s Cuba report borrowed heavily from my book on an anti‑imperialist movement – but twisted the arguments

The State Department views a 1960s-era internationalist movement based in Havana as a Cuban communist plot to destroy America. The truth was far more nuanced.
Gad Saad speaks with attendees at the 2023 AmericaFest at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona. Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Is Gad Saad building a culture‑war hero persona by distorting Canadian reality?

Some Canadians may agree with Gad Saad’s portrayal of Canada a leftist, woke hellscape. But many don’t, making him a highly unreliable narrator on Canada as he moves to the U.S.
One of scores of murals Diego Rivera painted in the interwar period, this one above the Secretariat of Public Education in Mexico City. Apolline Guillerot-Malick/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Trump’s coercive tactics in Latin America evoke era of gunboat diplomacy – and the rise of anti‑imperialism it helped spur

The interwar years in Latin America saw a remarkable flourishing of left-wing political thought aiming to challenge US dominance. That could offer lessons for today.
Police have been summoned to break up pro-Palestinian encampments of protesters at colleges throughout the U.S. Scott Olson for Getty Images

5 books to help you better understand today’s campus protests

These books shine light on a rich history of campus protests in the US that goes back to the 1960s.
Many of Latin America’s leftist ‘revolutions’ are now in crisis. But the left is resurging in some countries. The Conversation / Photo Claudia Daut/Reuters

The Latin American left isn’t dead yet

Progressives are leading in the presidential elections of Argentina, Uruguay and Bolivia, bucking the region’s recent rightward trend. But there are lessons in the failures of leftists past.

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