Articles written by Jorge L. León

Francisco Vicente Aguilera, the man who gave everything for the homeland

Who was Narciso López really?

Narciso López: between patriotism and filibusterism

Ignacio Agramonte: the man who wanted to establish a Republic before winning it

Quintín Banderas: three wars, one general, and a life that racism could not erase

We don't want to exchange blackouts for a dictatorship with electricity; we want freedom

Vicente García: the patriot who also harmed the revolution

After the last Castro

Gerardo Machado: Between History and Myth

Bartolomé Masó: History must also do justice to him

Estrada Palma: an honorable man, a misguided president

José Antonio Saco in Front of Today's Cuba: How to Regain the Dignity of a Nation?

Challenges for Cuba in the 21st Century: Reconstruction and National Reconciliation in a Democratic, Prosperous, and Free Republic

The crisis of the model and the awakening of civil society in Cuba

A hundred years since the creation of evil: Fidel Castro, the man without a soul, without a face, and without a word

Cuban society under the new regime

Socialist economy, nationalizations, and structural crisis in Cuba

The institutions of the Cuban regime

The 'Revolution' of 1959: from popular triumph to dictatorship

Education and Culture in the Republic (1902-1958): A nation that built schools, trained teachers, and nurtured thought before the historical rupture

The Republic from 1902 to 1958: Lights and Shadows of a Nation in the Making

José Martí: the Dreamed Republic and the Warning Against Tyrannies

The wars for Cuba's independence

Great Cuban thinkers of the 18th and 19th centuries on an island that began to shine with its own light

The Spanish colony: economic, social, and political formation of Cuba

Cuba, between hope and tragedy: The first inhabitants and the discovery

Democratic reconstruction in Cuba: what Latin America should learn to avoid repeating history

Exile as a Consequence of Authoritarianism

Education transformed into propaganda: When teaching stops shaping citizens and starts to manufacture loyalties

The economy of control and dependency

The destruction of civil society: When the State turns everyone into dependents

Fear as a tool of control

When justice ceases to be independent: Courts at the service of power

The Monopoly of Truth: When the State Controls Information

Caudillismo and the cult of the leader

How Democracies Die: The Cuban Experience as a Warning for Latin America

The Price of Complicity: When Silence Also Supports a Dictatorship

The head of the snake

The Castro dictatorship. Sixty-seven years of the same power structure in Cuba

When a society stops watching, others decide for it

When the state controls the bread, it controls the consciousness

July 11: The turning point of a nation and the birth of the Cuba of the future

The word that lost its revolution: how "revolutionary" ended up turned into obedience

The great Cuban contradiction: A crumbling dictatorship that still manages to secure votes at the UN

Cuba: Institutionalized Crime, the Revolution of Outrage