Articles written by Jorge L. León

Straightening Out the History of Cuba: What We Were Not Told

The Cuban Family: The Other Tragedy of the 'Revolution'

Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, neither white nor black: the nuances of history

Cuba: when the Republic began to shoot itself

Cuba after the dictatorship: the difficult task of transition

1898: What did Cuba gain and what did it lose?

1898 under the gaze of Cuban historians

The Platt Amendment: the Men Behind the Vote (Part II)

Betrayal or Realism? The Cuban Dilemma Regarding the Platt Amendment (Part I)

Leonard Wood: Between Reform and the Guardianship of Cuba

John R. Brooke, the first military governor of Cuba

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

Who was Narciso López really?

Narciso López: between patriotism and filibustering

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 do not 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 restore the dignity of a nation?

Challenges of 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 after 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 institutional framework 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 developed thought prior to 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 formation 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 shaping citizens and starts manufacturing 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 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 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 turning 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