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This article reports on Fidel Castro and the many times that he has been thought dead. The United States has been trying to work the Cuban people into a frenzy about their government, especially during Castro's surgery in the summer of 2006. But on the Cuban front, things have largely remained quiet, and unchanged.

Presents a report on the international status of Cuba during the regime of Prime Minister Fidel Castro. Factors behind the political power gapped by Castro; Foreign relationship between the U.S. and Cuba; Political strategies of Castro in Cuba; Discussion on the economic transformation of Cub triggered by Castro; Revolutionary policy of Castro in Cuba.

Offers observation on political developments in Cuba with emphasis on policies of Prime Minister Fidel Castro. Information about articles published in various journals on revolution in Cuba and Castro; Reference to his speech "History Will Absolve Me"; Comparison between Castro's revolution and Spanish Civil War; Increase in degree of Soviet influence in Havana; Publication of texts and books denouncing America, glorifying Cuba and urging one to accept Marxist philosophy; Probability of the Cuban government to depend on U.S. aid if ever economic pressure increases.

The article discusses Cuba's economic growth in 2007 and the ways in which Cuban citizens hope that the government will change since former Cuban President Fidel Castro's retirement and Raúl Castro's rise to the presidency. Cuban oil resources, a growing tourism industry, and Cuban doctors offering services to foreigners all could help the Cuban economy to strengthen. The U.S. embargo and other factors, though, hinder Cuba from being self-sufficient.

The article discusses a 2011 attempt by the Freemasons, a Protestant organization, to overthrow the government in Cuba. Topics include the involvement of businessman Akram Elias in the plot, why the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) launched a Cuban microblogging website called ZunZuneo, and why Fidel Castro allowed the Freemasons to remain in Cuba after the 1960s revolution.

The article focuses on U.S. policy toward Cuba and suggests policy options for an eventual Cuban revolution. The author discusses Cuban political history in relation to the U.S. and the Cold War, explores how future U.S. responses to political transition in Cuba should be handled, and draws comparison to the Arab Spring Uprisings of 2011.

This article is a comprehensive review of the life of Fidel Castro, former Cuban President. His life in the U.S. is reviewed, as well as his relationships with his wife and other women, his adult children, Che Guevara, and General Fulgencio Batista. Also reviewed is the 1956 Cuban revolution and Canada's role in it, Cuba's relations with the U.S. and other countries, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, Cuban Missile Crisis, Operation Mongoose, U.S. anti-Castro sentiments, and Cuban poverty.

The article examines the economic and political history of Cuba. During his early years in power, President Fulgencio Batista had helped poorer Cubans, but they started to get restive when he began amassing a large fortune. He was assisted by the U.S. in opposing communism. Batista was unseated by Fidel Castro, who set about remaking Cuban society along communist lines. The Soviet Union became a close ally. By 1968, all private-ownership of business and property had disappeared.

On the eve of the eighth anniversary of the 26 July Movement, in 1952, on which Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro attacked Batista's Moncado, Barracks, the heroic struggle of the Cuban people for independence has reached its worst crisis. Oil and sugar are the gremlins in a revolution that otherwise has operated with surprising smoothness. Oil, Cuba's only fuel, sugar, its major crop and major foreign-exchange earner. Through these two products, the U.S. is delivering its greatest blows so far in the diplomatic, economic and propaganda offensive which it launched against the Castro regime soon after Batista fell.

The article presents news briefs for the week of December 28, 1963. The author profiles United States president Lyndon Johnson's so-called war on poverty and offers an overview of poverty in the U.S. since 1946. The U.S. is still in the process of developing a consistent foreign policy toward both the Soviet Union and China. The economic boycott of Cuba by the U.S. is examined in light of the necessity of Cuba to depend on the Soviet Union for it existence.

Focuses on the foreign policy of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt towards Cuba. Repeal of the Platt Amendment; Impact of the American capital to the country; Changes in the Cuban government.

Presents socio-political and economic news from the world. Implications of the U.S. domestic recovery program and its refusal to stabilize dollar in international exchange; Information on the proposal of the Soviet Russia to other nations at London Conference that she would buy from them 1,000 million dollars' worth of goods of many sorts if they would only provide reasonably adequate credits; Announcement of plans for wheat and cotton under new legislation by the U.S. Department of Agriculture; Information on the leasing and option schemes for cotton by the U.S. Government; Report that the U.S. Government is negotiating abroad with the other chief wheat-exporting nations to see whether an international agreement on production and an assignment of export quotas can be reached, in order to reduce the surplus hanging over world markets; Information on the use of Industrial Recovery Act in oil and cotton textile industries; Report that the long expected open break between the Austrian Government and the Nazis has at last taken place; Support of Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini to Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss' Government; Criticism of the production of the thirty-seven ships for the U.S. Navy; Report that American Ambassador to Cuba has offered to act as mediator and bring all factions together in the attempt to find some satisfactory compromise which will bring to an end the present impossible situation in Cuba; Implications of the proposed tax on all motor cars, city bridges and business by New York Mayor John P. O'Brien; Apology of the journal and the writer Lawrence Dennis on the erroneous reading of the book "The Investor Pays," by Max Lowenthal.

This article focuses on the political conditions of Cuba. The Cubans believe they have already won much. The failure of the April invasion, they allege, revealed the `bankruptcy of a policy, of brute force and has shaken confidence that gold can rule all. This, they say, has forced the U.S. to seek a "pseudo collective," aggression against the island by attempting to convert the Organization of American States (OAS) into a dutiful instrument of the U.S. policy. The effort to destroy the Cuban revolution, Cubans believe, represented an attempt by the U.S. to maintain its military, political and financial hegemony over the entire New World.

This article focuses on socio-political conditions of the world. The chief defect in the Cuban Constitution, according to its critic, is that it permits an excessive centralization of power in the hands of the President and Congress. Little more than a year has passed since extravagant fears regarding the possible decline of her coal supremacy were expressed in England. In the U.S. correspondingly high anticipations of the future were being entertained. Several things have combined within the past few months to bring forward the servant problem in the U.S. with renewed force.

This article presents information on recent political developments around the world. The Cubans are reported to be delighted at the evidence of the United States rashness in connection with the Cuban Post-office under U.S. management. They can scarcely be blamed, so much have the Americans lectured and patronized them on the subject of honest administration. In 1896, the United States Democratic party nominated for President a man who was essentially a Populist and adopted a platform which was largely a restatement of Populist views as these had been expressed by the People's party in 1892.

Focuses on Cuba's acquisition of its independence, and its relation with Cuba's resentment of the U.S. Information on significant dates in the relationship between the two countries; Role of the U.S. in Cuba's acquisition of independence; Problems posed by the independent status in Cuba.

This article addresses the issue of indifference of the U.S. towards the plight of Cuban dissidents who have suffered persecution under Cuban President Fidel Castro. Cubans who resisted and challenged the right-winged administration of Cuba, are working in near-total darkness. One of the cases involves a man named René Montes de Oca Martija. He is a human-rights campaigner, and a Christian. He has been jailed or detained repeatedly throughout his life in Cuba. His actual offense was to propose for the release of political prisoners, free elections, a fair penal code, and the possibility of Christian education in the schools, on the grounds of basic human rights. On April 20, he managed to escape from Cuba. The dissident community suffered a blow on April 26, when the U.S. secretary of state, Colin Powell, gave a testimony in the House stating that Castro has done some good things for his people.

Offers a look on Cuba's political transition. Information on the tourist business in Cuba; United States foreign policy on Cuba; Background on Carlos Lage, the country's vice president; Political and economic condition in Cuba.

Offers the author's impressions of Cuban life and Cuban economic and political possibilities which were gained during a two month stay in 1994. Impact of the United States immigration policy on the flow of illegal immigration; Percentage of its exports that Cuba has lost since 1989; The sometimes unexpected normality in Cuba; Labor discipline and efficiency; Other aspects of life in Cuba.

Discusses the effects of the United States embargo against Cuba. Father Patrick Sullivan ejected from Cuba by Fidel Castro, President of the Council of State; View of the Catholic Church about Sullivan's ejection from the country; Consideration of major changes in its policy toward Cuba by the United States; Hopes that Cuba will evolve into a democracy; Details about the new policy; Need for internal political change in Cuba; Information on the developmental and economic changes in relation to the U.S.

Outlines a policy to liberate Cuba from President Fidel Castro without risking nuclear war. Alternatives available to the Cuban people who oppose Castro; Approach that must be taken by potential forces to free Cuba while avoiding nuclear war; Potential role for the U.S. in the effort.

Focuses on the political conditions in Cuba. Negative effect of a Communist government on the intellectual and emotional health of politics; Importance of inner morale to the public administration; Order of the deployment of military troops in the country by Soviet Union Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev; Report on the secret U.S. assistance to guerrillas in Cuban backlands.

Focuses on the political conditions in Cuba. Speculation in the press about whether Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro could have been kept out of arms of Communists by a more conciliatory U.S. policy when Castro first took power; Enthusiasm of Fidel during his stay in Argentina at the Inter-American Conference, about his private Alliance for Progress scheme of $30 billion.

The article reports on the tecnopropista in Cuba. Topics mention including the country's well-regarded educational talent poll, increasing wi-fi stops in Varadero and Havana which will be a good resource in securing and managing business such as in the tourism sector and Cuban government's management regarding the tech cuentapropista which offers their services to the foreign entities. INSET: Matching Silicon Valley and tecnopropistas.

Offers a look at politics and social conditions in Cuba as of May 23, 2005. Profile of José María, a priest and political activist; Reflections on a visit to Havana, Cuba; Comparison of social conditions in modern Cuba with those of Poland during the author's childhood during Communist rule; Claim that Cuba has a high rate of unemployment and poor living conditions for many citizens; Description of architecture and social life in Havana; Comments on the influence of Fidel Castro on Cuban society; Discussion of relations between the U.S. and Cuba; Potential for political reform or regime change in Cuba.

However well-intentioned U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Administration's Cuban policy may be, the rapid succession of events there has made plain that the State Department was inadequately prepared. It should have known, that the political, social, and economic consequences of that seven-year tyranny were not eradicated with the dictator and that their legacy would complicate Cuban affairs for years to come and that the satisfactory settlement of the Cuban problem is not a minor diplomatic task. The greatest contribution that the U.S. can make to Cuban reconstruction is to cease the obstructive interference of non-recognition and that implicit in fleet mobilization, and to appreciate that the best government in the long run for the Cubans is one which they develop for themselves.

Criticizes the way some journalists have presented information on the political situation in Cuba under the regime of Premier Fidel Castro. State of the nation under the leadership of Fulgencio Batista; Impact that anti-Castro policy of the U.S. had on the relations between the two nations; Confusing political information being published in Cuban newspapers; Exaggerated accounts about Castro's poor health published in American newspapers; Shortcomings in the way public opinion polls were conducted by a journalist to procure information about the correct political situation in Cuba; Support given by a majority of Cuban people and "fidelistas" to Castro; Improvements in living standards in rural Cuba made by the Castro administration; U.S. foreign policy toward the Cuban sugar quota; Increase in the war propaganda and economic reprisals made by Cuba and the U.S.; Steps that the U.S. President needs to take to improve the relations between the two nations.

The article provides information about various social and political issues and developments taking place around the world. The latest "news" about Cuba appearing in the New York papers is that the U.S. Administration has undergone a great change of mind about the rebellion since the President's message was written, and is now half inclined to acknowledge the belligerency of the insurgents. What has worked this conversion does not appear. Moreover, the same chronicler says that U.S. statesman Charles Sumner is disposed to support the recognition if it can be shown to him that the rebels have emancipated the slaves.

Although the U.S. Neutrality Act forbids launching military expeditions from U.S. territory against any nation with which the United States is at peace, there has nevertheless been a sustained campaign of terror waged against Cuba from U.S. soil since the July 26th Movement first came to to power on January 1, 1959. The most powerful of the anti-Castro organizations operating out of Florida is the Cuban American National Foundation (CANF). CANF has been described as the political wing of the anti-Communist Miami exile community. Corresponding to CANF political wing are the main terrorist groups that form the military wing of anti-Cuba activities. In the midst of this ongoing series of sustained terrorist activities against its national interests, Cuba sent a group of five men — Gerardo Hernandez Nordelo, Ramon Labanino, Antonio Guerrerro Rodriguez, Fernando Gonzalez Llort and Rene Gonzalez Sehwerent, to attempt to monitor the organizations that perpetrated these attacks. Significantly, these men did not engage in any espionage activities against the U.S. government, armed forces, national security interests, or scientific research. Instead, the Cuban Five simply kept track of the activities of Miami-based right-wing groups that seek the destruction of Cuba's socio-economic and political system. In September, 1998, however, the Florida branch of the FBI arrested all five and charged them with espionage and murder

The article focuses on U.S. President George W. Bush's failed attempts to control the succession in Cuba during the transition from Fidel Castro to his brother, Raúl Castro. The reaction of the Cuban public to the succession is mentioned. The U.S. government is calling for the Cuban people to work against the successor government.

The article recounts a dinner the author had with Cuba's Fidel Castro. It took many requests over the years until he was granted a one-on-one interview. The author spoke at length about the situation in the United States and then Castro answered questions regarding Cuba, including the Cuban missile crisis. He even admitted that his biggest mistake was aligning himself too closely with Moscow. The author says that he was able to create a bond with Castro despite their political differences.

The article focuses on U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and whether he will agree with the U.S.- Cuba Political Action Committee (PAC) and Calle 8 rhetoric and the demand of confrontational policies hardliners. It discusses the policies and global agenda of the administration of Trump and his political strategy toward Cuba which is a potential good business for his presidency, his business exploration in Cuba in the 1990s, and fears expressed by CIbans over the election of Trump.

Mentions the American tour of the Cuban band, Los Van Van. How older Cuban exiles in Florida consider the group a symbol of Cuba's Communist government; Cancellation of the group's appearance at the Knight Center in Miami; Reaction from the Miami chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union concerning the First Amendment.

Asserts that President Bill Clinton's policy that has begun turning back Cubans who escape to the United States has deprived Fidel Castro of a safety valve. How Havana needs to make good on its promises of economic reform to avoid revolution by dissatisfied Cubans.