Articles written by Jorge L. León

Education and Culture in the Republic (1902-1958): A nation that built schools, formed teachers, and fostered thought before the historical break

The Republic from 1902 to 1958: the lights and shadows of a nation in construction

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 development of Cuba

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

The democratic reconstruction in Cuba: what Latin America must learn to avoid repeating history

Exile as a consequence of authoritarianism

Education turned into propaganda: When teaching stops forming citizens and begins to manufacture loyalties

The economy of control and dependence

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

Fear as a Tool of Control

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

The Monopoly on 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 sustains a dictatorship

The head of the serpent

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

When a society stops paying attention, others make decisions for it

When the State controls bread, it controls consciousness

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

The word that lost its revolution: how “revolutionary” ended up becoming obedience

The great Cuban contradiction: A crumbling dictatorship that still garners votes at the UN

Cuba: Institutionalized Crime, the Revolution of Outrage