Articles tagged “Cuba”

Popular Revolution

Washington has blocked all fuel to an island it is not at war with, doubling Cuban infant mortality and gutting childhood cancer survival. The reason is not democracy. It is privatization for Trump's cronies, and the price is being paid in dead children.

Popular Revolution

Cuba’s rushed 176-point economic package, pushed by U.S. pressure, risks handing state assets to elites while the working poor shoulder power cuts, shortages and fraying social care.

History's Teeth

In April 1961 a CIA-backed force of about 1,400 Cuban exiles landed at the Bay of Pigs. The invasion failed within days, boosting Fidel Castro and embarrassing the U.S. government.