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A Cuban school

A Cuban school

December 31, 2015

The village primary school in El Corralito in the province of Pinar del Rio has 30 students and 15 teachers. We were invited to their celebration of the ‘Day of the Teacher’ (December 22), along with all the students and parents (almost all those attending were mothers). The day began as it always does, with […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Cuba

London protest tells Obama "Close it now', 2015. Demotix/ Peter Marshall.

Guantánamo – time to end the lease

March 11, 2015

Those who would protest that only regime change and full recognition of human rights in Cuba should precede any deal have surely had their arguments demolished.  This month marks the 112th anniversary of the signing of the lease for the Guantánamo base between the Cuban and US governments. For at least half this period the […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Cuba, US intervention

Empire's Crossroads: A history of the Caribbean from Columbus to the present day

Empire’s Crossroads: A history of the Caribbean from Columbus to the present day

December 30, 2014

There are many histories of the Americas that begin with Columbus’s landing in what were to become known as the West Indies, but this is perhaps one of the few accessible accounts which focus on the Caribbean itself, and which follow through right to the present day. Carrie Gibson’s thesis is that the Caribbean was […]

Category: Latin America, Book reviews | Tags: Cuba, US intervention, Latin America, dictators, caribbean, Spanish conquest

Billboard calling for the return of the Cuban Five
Photo: cubanismo.net

Five out of five

December 29, 2014

On the morning of 17 December, schoolchildren in Coralito assembled under the Cuban flag to sing the anthem before starting lessons. Early sunshine picked out five palm trees on the roadside opposite the school. They were planted in support of the ‘Cuban Five’, agents sent to Miami to disrupt anti-Castro plots by Cuban exiles in […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Cuba, US intervention | 1 Response

Fernando González, left, meets with Masaya Mayor Orlando Noguera
Photo: Xochilt Calero Alvarez

Freed member of the ‘Cuban Five’ visits Masaya

November 24, 2014

Fernando González, the second of the Cuban Five to be released from prison, has been in Masaya as part of the campaign on behalf of the other three, who have been incarcerated since 1998. On Saturday afternoon a small room packed with about 300 people saw him receive the freedom of the city from the […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Nicaragua, Cuba, Masaya

Cuba's housing in photographs

Cuba’s housing in photographs

November 1, 2014

Not all of Cuba’s housing could grace a picture postcard like the shot above, but the good and the bad are fairly reflected in a photo competition being run by website The Havana Times. Here are some of the entries, starting (below) with my own shot of flats in Cajalbana, Pinar del Rio, on washing […]

Category: Housing, Latin America | Tags: Cuba | 1 Response

Undercover and under-paid

August 16, 2014

The US State Department is in a fix. It confronts an intransigent foreign government. The long-standing policy aim is regime change. Past attempts at assassination, sponsoring an armed invasion, allowing dissident groups to blow up an airliner, hotels and discotheques, have all failed. Economic sanctions seemed to have strengthened not weakened the regime. US agents are […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Cuba, US intervention

A man in Caracas walks past a mural featuring Simon Bolivar and Hugo Chavez Photo: CNN

The United States of South America

March 1, 2014

Creating the USSA was the driving ambition of Latin America’s ‘Liberator’, Simón Bolívar. According to his biographer Marie Arana, it may well have been in London in 1810, in conversations with Francisco de Miranda, that he first conceived of a federal power in the southern continent to match that in the north. He spent the […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Cuba, US intervention, Venezuela, Bolivar

Central park in La Palma, Pinar del Rio

A Cuban diary

January 29, 2014

At a dull moment in the baseball match between Pinar del Rio and Villa Clara, I turn to look at the Cubans in the seats behind me. It’s easy to imagine them as a crowd in a stadium almost anywhere in Latin America: everyone well-dressed and apparently well-fed. Vendors wind between the rows of seats […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Cuba

Residents whose homes were destroyed in hurricanes in their new 'petrocasas' homes.

Cuban residents trained to rebuild homes destroyed by hurricanes

January 22, 2014

In the space of ten days in 2008 Cuba was hit by two of the most powerful storms in its history, causing $9.7 billions of damage to homes and infrastructure from which it is still recovering.  Worst affected was the western province of Pinar del Rio. Hurricane Gustav arrived with such force that it wiped […]

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