What drives someone to champion the rights of people in a land he doesn't know?
It’s audacious to hope that Obama would take up the plight of the Cuban people, but isn't audacity supposed to be what he's about? (Also read Roger L. Simon: Cuba Si, Obama Maybe)
Steven Soderbergh's film Che is nothing more than a $60 million whitewash of the truth.
The U.S. must not change to improve bilateral relations. Cuba must change.
The president-elect already faces pressure to make nice with Havana. Will he cave?
Putin and Medvedev's renewed meddling in the Americas makes it feel like the 1960s again.
And who better than a punk rocker to pressure the reluctant dictator?
Raul Castro fears the political changes that might follow a true opening of the economy.
Reports coming out of Castro's "workers' paradise" are laughably simplistic and shallow.