By Armando Chaguaceda (@xarchano) Political Scientist, University of Guanajuato, Mexico Translated from the Spanish by Ted A. Henken   The recent news of an unprecedented thaw in U.S.-Cuba relations has provoked a fierce debate. It is a dispute whose foundations are the validity, legitimacy, and future of the long-standing U.S. policy of isolation; the connection […]

The actions announced by the United States on December 17, 2014 will have a limited immediate impact on the Cuban economy.[1] More important consequences will need to await repeal of the Helms-Burton Act (H-B) and other laws by the U.S. Congress. I don’t know when that will happen, but the recent agreement between Cuba and […]