Cuba
Daily Comment
How a Cuban American Illustrator Sees This Country Today
Edel Rodriguez’s new exhibition, “Apocalypso,” reflects on democracy under threat in the nation that welcomed him in his childhood.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
Jia Tolentino on the Ozempic Weight-Loss Craze
A drug designed to treat diabetes is changing how celebrities—and maybe the rest of us—will look. Plus, D. T. Max on the Latino author who fabricated his very identity.
Daily Comment
Is Cuba’s Communist Party Finally Losing Its Hold on the Country?
Historic protests across the island cast doubt on the regime’s staying power.
The Political Scene Podcast
Tough Tests in Cuba and Haiti for Biden’s Foreign Policy
What can the United States do to mitigate pressing crises in the Caribbean?
Annals of Espionage
Are U.S. Officials Under Silent Attack?
The Havana Syndrome first affected spies and diplomats in Cuba. Now it has spread to the White House.
Daily Comment
Cuba After the Castros
Sixty years after the Bay of Pigs, the Castro brothers are gone from the main stage, and Cuba is a threadbare place facing an uncertain future.
Personal History
My Brother’s Keeper
Early in the Cuban Revolution, my mother made a consequential decision.
U.S. Journal
How Pro-Trump Disinformation Is Swaying a New Generation of Cuban-American Voters
A group that Democrats once thought might help Joe Biden win Florida has shifted dramatically toward the President.
Postscript
The Many Lives and Quiet Death of a Good Communist
Fernando Barral spent his life trying to be a model Communist, only to be stymied by Party commissars.
Our Columnists
What Bernie Sanders Should Have Said About Socialism and Totalitarianism in Cuba
The Democratic front-runner’s recent comments exposed a divide between the native-born American left and those who fled totalitarian regimes.
Daily Comment
What Do Lula’s Release and Morales’s Ouster Signal for Latin America?
The long-serving leftist President is ousted in Bolivia, but populist candidates show signs of resurgence elsewhere in the region.
Daily Comment
In Its Fight with Venezuela, the Trump Administration Takes Aim at Cuba
After failing to bring down the Maduro regime, the White House has turned its attention to Cuba, which it blames for the Venezuelan President’s survival.
News Desk
Brain Scans Shed New Light on Mysterious Attacks on U.S. Diplomats and Spies in Havana
New test results fail to explain dozens of brain injuries, even as one victim describes her worsening condition.
Daily Comment
Mexico, Cuba, and Trump’s Increasing Preference for Punishment Over Diplomacy
The language and the intent of the emerging Trump doctrine in Latin America, if it can be called that, is very much Cold War 2.0.
Photo Booth
A New Vanguard of Women in Cuban Jazz
Rose Marie Cromwell’s photographs capture a new generation of female musicians, many of whom embrace musical traditions that were once off limits to them.
News Desk
Exploding Mojitos: The First “Sonic Attacks” Targeting American Diplomats in Cuba May Have Taken Place Thirty Years Ago
In the late eighties, the diplomat Jay Taylor and his family experienced strange phenomena at the American Ambassador’s residence in Havana, but no evidence of foul play was ever found.
Letter from Cuba
The Mystery of the Havana Syndrome
Unexplained brain injuries afflicted dozens of American diplomats and spies. What happened?
London Postcard
Tania Bruguera’s Empathy-Inducing Installation
The artist has transformed the Tate Modern’s turbine hall with heat-sensitive paint, a foreboding rumble, and a crying room with piped-in vapor.
