Castañeda participa en Caracas en un foro internacional sobre libertad y democracia, al que también asiste el escritor peruano Mario Vargas Llosa.
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How Fidel Snookered Everyone
Geopolitics makes for strange bedfellows indeed. After President Barack Obama’s performance at last weekend’s Summit of the Americas (and before that, on a quick visit to Mexico City) nearly everyone in Latin America and the United States was applauding t
¿Quién embaucó a quién?
No cesan las paradojas en el nuevo mundo valiente de la crisis. Todos, absolutamente todos, se felicitaron por el tenor de la Cumbre de las Américas, celebrada en Trinidad hace dos semanas, por la nueva política hacia América Latina de Barack Obama y por
La ambigüedad de la victoria en El Salvador
La noche del domingo 15 de marzo fue, sin duda, la más feliz de la vida de Ramiro Abreu. Sesentón, regordete, de baja estatura, y provisto del par de ojos más azules e intensos que se hayan visto en los anales de la revolución latinoamericana, el encargad
The Plot Against The Castros
For years, two tidbits of conventional wisdom have dominated debates among Cubanologists (a tropical subspecies of former Kremlinologists). First, that Deputy Prime Minister and economic czar Carlos Lage has been in charge of running the island economy si
Latin America’s Deafening Silence
To the myriad foreign challenges Barack Obama will have to confront upon taking office we may have to add a complex conundrum next door in Latin America. On three fronts that have posed serious problems for the United States before, there is a growing and
Fidel Fatigue
FIDEL CASTRO TURNS 80 today, and his era has come to an end. The biological denouement in Havana is not yet discernible — Is he dead? Will he recover? — but he has relinquished power, temporarily to his brother, Raul, but also permanently through the admi
La disyuntiva de Cuba
El pasado 26 de julio, los cubanos festejaron el 44º aniversario del asalto al Cuartel Moncada, hito que marca el inicio de la revolución de Fidel Castro, y también evocaron, con felicidad o tristeza, según el caso, el paso de un año sin el Comandante en
Russian Moves in the Americas
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s surprising announcement in early August that his country would seek to “re-establish” ties with the Soviet Union’s old allies in Havana stirred up excitement in many foreign newsrooms, and raised eyebrows in a few f
Ending The Cuban Exception
The resignation of Fidel Castro from two of his three jobs in Cuba, together with the appointment of his brother as his successor, marks the end of an era—sort of. Raúl Castro replaced the elder Castro as president of the Councils of Ministers and of Stat