PODCAST 30: Latin America is the front line of a global war on nature
Category: Cuba
The Cuban interregnum
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Castro defined the struggle against imperialism by advocating internationalism. Revolution and the Road to Peace in Colombia: The example of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, 2025, Pathfinder
Categories: Caribbean, Cuba, North America, United States
Eastern promise
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A Cuban crucible of internationalism holds lessons for the left. Cuba’s Cosmopolitan Enclaves: Imperialism and Internationalism in Eastern Sugar Towns, Frances Peace Sullivan, 2025, University Press of Florida
Categories: Caribbean, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, North America, United States
Latine rebellions and why they matter
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Llana Barber explores a history of uprisings in the US against a backdrop of systemic racism, reminding us as we observe Los Angeles that the weak never suffer in silence
Categories: Caribbean, Central America, Colombia, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, North America, Puerto Rico, South America, United States
Men with guns
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Coups can tell us all about democracy. Coups d’État in Cold War Latin America, 1964–1982, eds Sebastián Carassai and Kevin Coleman, 2025, Cambridge University Press
Categories: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Caribbean, Central America, Colombia, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, North America, South America, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela
Toiling for the invader
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US imperialism has been built on local labour. The Work of Empire: War, Occupation, and the Making of American Colonialism in Cuba and the Philippines, Justin F Jackson, 2025, University of North Carolina Press
Categories: Caribbean, Cuba, North America, United States
Cry freedom
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Comment: Ireland knows a thing or two about anti-imperialism. Sinn Féin’s Chris Hazzard MP told the ¡Adelante! conference why its solidarity with Latin America is unshakeable
Categories: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Caribbean, Central America, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Europe, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, International, Ireland, Mexico, Nicaragua, North America, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, South America, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela
Cuba’s worst nightmare
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Green dilemma
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Cuba’s energy revolution has had political consequences. The Low-Carbon Contradiction: Energy Transition, Geopolitics, and the Infrastructural State in Cuba, Gustav Cederlöf, 2023, University of California Press
Postsocialist puzzle
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Cuba’s cultural condition is put under the microscope. Portable Postsocialisms: New Cuban Mediascapes after the End of History, Paloma Duong, 2024, University of Texas Press