Cuban Revolution

In Part I of this review of Democracy Delayed: The Case of Castro’s Cuba (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002) , we discussed how the hapless Cuban people ­ living in a vacuum, possessed with a dearth of information coming from within and from without the island ­ have quietly turned against the communist regime […]

When Juan José López, PhD, a political scientist, proudly dedicated Democracy Delayed: The Case of Castro’s Cuba (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002) — his first book — to his wife Myrna and son Juan Carlos, he could not have anticipated that he would indeed need every bit of their moral and physical support. The

Inside the Cuban Revolution by Julia E. Sweig, senior fellow and deputy director of the Latin American program at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), is a greatly disappointing book. For one thing, the book is too narrow in scope and breadth as well as in covering the period under study. Although the book claims

On Dec. 4, 2002, the Associated Press (AP) reported how Fidel Castro has given up smoking his beloved cigars, despite the Caribbean Island fame and investment in that tobacco product. Now Castro is critical of rum drinking as well, in the name of advocating for the well-being and public health of his people. Speaking to