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Fidel Castro
April 16, 2021
Andre Pagliarini
The Book That Stopped an Outbreak of Nuclear War
A new history of the Cuban missile crisis emphasizes how close the world came to destruction—and how severe a threat the weapons still pose.
February 25, 2020
Casey Michel
Bernie Sanders’s Dumb Defense of Fidel Castro
The late Cuban strongman was everything the Democratic front-runner has long railed against: a grifting plutocrat from the top one percent.
January 1, 2019
Andre Pagliarini
Batista’s Revenge
Sixty years to the day after the Cuban Revolution transformed the right-left struggle in Latin America, far-right Jair Bolsonaro became Brazil's president.
June 6, 2018
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Ioan Grillo
When Democracy Isn’t Enough
Elections and free markets haven’t solved the real problems in Latin America.
November 26, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
The death of Fidel Castro is the perfect Rorschach test for our times.
October 13, 2016
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
A Grave of One’s Own
In the age of Trump, a funeral home in Brooklyn is doing a brisk business repatriating dead Muslim immigrants.
February 18, 2016
Jeet Heer
By going to Cuba, Obama will secure a major plank of his foreign policy legacy.
April 18, 2014
Ilan Stavans
García Márquez Was More Important for Spanish Literature Than Cervantes
March 9, 2013
Paul Berman
The Source of El Comandante's Power
Hugo Chavez: The Source of His Power
March 5, 2013
Francisco Toro
What Fidel Taught Hugo
Cuba defined Chávez's career as much as Venezuela did
November 2, 2012
Perry Stein
Obama a Socialist? Guilty by Association, Says Romney Ad
July 10, 2012
Amy Sullivan
Breaking: Some Journalists Forced to Work on Hamster Wheels
May 7, 2012
Carlos Eire
In Defense of Marco Rubio’s Story of His Family’s Exile
April 11, 2012
Carlos Eire
What Pope Benedict Got Wrong in Cuba
April 10, 2012
Nathan Pippenger
Ozzie Guillen's Castro Problem
December 5, 2011
Alec MacGillis
The Marco Rubio Story
November 1, 2011
Alec MacGillis
How Marco Rubio Might Get Away With It
October 21, 2011
Alec MacGillis
Is Florida Back On The Map?
September 14, 2011
Jonathan Cohn
Popularity Contest
July 2, 2011
Francisco Toro
What Hugo Chavez’s Illness Means for Venezuela’s Future
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