History of Cuba

Gerardo Machado: between history and myth

Bartolomé Masó: History must also do him justice

Another young man reinterprets "La Catalina" from abroad: "It was about rewriting the song, not breaking our hearts."

Estrada Palma: an honest man, a mistaken president

Historian Rolando Gallardo wonders if Machado was really a dictator

Luisito, the Collector: The Man Who Defeated Oblivion

José Antonio Saco in the Cuba of today: How to regain the dignity of a nation?

Filming the present so that tomorrow the past doesn't change

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 since the creation of evil: Fidel Castro, the man without a soul, without a face, and without a voice

Yunior García on obstacles to the future of Cuba: "We are all too busy attacking each other."

"Ask how to quench all the thirst of an Island": poet and journalist from Matanzas

"To make us soar and take us out of the deadly routine": concert by Silvia Pérez Cruz in Old Havana

Cuban society under the new regime

Socialist economy, nationalizations, and structural crisis in Cuba

The institutionality of the Cuban regime

False earthquake alarm causes tension among residents of Camagüey

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

Manuel Marrero Cruz: "To die for one's homeland is to live."

They brought down Maceo in Las Tunas and still no one is held accountable: they demand to reveal those responsible

Homeland, revolution, and socialism: the demagogic "holy trinity" of Fidel Castro, says Cuban historian

Activist Lara Crofs: "A Maceo cannot be brought down, he is returned to Cuba."

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

Armando Tomey calls Díaz-Canel "a donkey with fangs."

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

José Martí: the Dreamed Republic and the Warning Against Tyrannies

Unknown individuals have toppled the bust of Antonio Maceo in the park of Las Tunas and damaged its face

"What a shame, Díaz-Canel," "people don't want improvements anymore, nor dialogue, nor band-aids; they want freedom": the testimony of a Cuban woman

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

Cuban historian: "A shared outcry emerges: how long will this last?"

The daughter of pilot Rafael del Pino is seeking compensation from Cuba for the kidnapping and death of her father

Historian defends that Cuba is more Spanish than African

The Moncada: From Myth to the Birth of a Tragedy

An expert questions the role of Céspedes for adding his slaves to the war as "cannon fodder."

Slavery in Cuba: the history that Cubans prefer to forget

Caudillismo and the cult of the leader

Rancho Boyeros is falling apart: calls to save the "cathedral of Cuban cattle farming"

Alina Bárbara López dusts off a phrase by Fidel Castro from 1959 that seems tailor-made for today's Cuba

Amir Valle: Cuba, "a private estate of the Castros", "where people die of hunger"

Historian Ada Ferrer compares present-day Cuba to that of Weyler's reconcentration: "It's been 30 years of collapse. The country is destroyed."

Historic visit of Jennifer Lopez to Cuba revived: the 10 days she spent in a neighborhood of Havana

Can Cubans govern themselves? Historian responds

Raúl Castro reappears to bid farewell to Ramiro Valdés alongside Díaz-Canel

The museum of a "martyr of the revolution" is burning amid protests in Contramaestre, Santiago de Cuba

Ramiro Valdés dies, architect of the Cuban repressive apparatus

The constitutional trap of Castroism: When "irreversible socialism" becomes a problem

What happened to the ills of capitalism? The economic shift of the Cuban regime

What happened to the Yankee enemy? The Cuban regime rewrites six decades of confrontation with the U.S.

Palacio de Aldama, another architectural gem that is being destroyed in Cuba

Bronze plaque dedicated to the poet José María Heredia disappears on a street in Matanzas

The Castro power group is the "main responsible party for the national ruin," asserts a Cuban academic

The psychological trauma that communism caused to the Cuban people

Available for sale: "Hoz y Cruz," a book by journalist Yoe Suárez about the resistance of evangelicals to the Cuban dictatorship

Spain and Cuba: historical memory, endangered interests, and moral debt

The regime that emerged in 1959 tried to "dismantle the entire republican civilization and its historical-cultural memory," says a Cuban academic

Outrage over the treatment of José Martí's son's remains during an exhumation at the Colón Cemetery