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Cubans Are Suffering. Biden Needs to End the Embargo.

| Jul 21, 2021 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Food / Farming|HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyThe anti-government protests that erupted in various Cuban cities this July received enormous coverage in the U.S. press. But most of the coverage either underplayed or failed to mention the critical role played by the U.S. embargo in creating the blackouts and...

Make Normalization With Cuba a Priority

| Jun 9, 2021 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracySilvia from Miami, Eduardo from Hialeah, Abel from Lakeland. The names pour in on the donations page for “Syringes to Cuba” as Carlos Lazo promotes the campaign on his popular Facebook livestream. An energetic Cuban American high school teacher in Seattle, Lazo...

There Are No S—hole Countries

| Jan 17, 2018 | Environment / Health|Rights / DemocracyWe recently learned that Donald Trump referred to African nations and Haiti using a derogatory and profane term. (Accounts differ, but all seem to agree it ended with “hole.”) Writing off an enormous percentage of the world’s landmass and population as inferior isn’t...

Cubans Are Starting Small Businesses, but the U.S. Is Hurting Them

| Nov 22, 2017 | Economy / BusinessOn November 8, just as President Trump was clinching new business deals with the repressive Communist government of China, the Trump administration announced new rules rolling back President Obama’s opening with Cuba. The new regulations are supposed to punish hotels,...

See Marco Run

| Feb 17, 2016 | Rights / DemocracySince his relatively strong third-place showing in Iowa, the ups and downs of Senator Marco Rubio’s GOP presidential campaign are getting more attention. And so are the lefts and rights. After the man once dubbed “The Republican Savior“ by Time magazine fared well in...