A woman selling avocados waits for customers in Havana, Cuba, July 9, 2022 (AP photo by Ramon Espinosa). By William LeoGrande Cuba’s Deepening Economic Crisis Is Putting Diaz-Canel in a Bind HAVANA—Cuba is suffering. That was the inescapable conclusion from a recent trip to the island. The aged electrical grid is collapsing for lack of … Continue reading Cuba’s Deepening Economic Crisis Is Putting Diaz-Canel in a Bind

ESTEBAN LAZO: RUSIA SIEMPRE PODRÁ CONTAR CON LA AMISTAD DE CUBA Her Excellency Valentina Matvienko, President of the Federation Council Distinguished members of the Federation Council: I am grateful for the special distinction you make to my people by granting me the privilege of addressing you, which allows me to convey to you, with great … Continue reading Speech delivered by Esteban Lazo, president of Cuba’s National Assembly of People’s Power: “Cuba warned and denounced early on that the conflict in Ukraine could have been avoided if the United States and NATO had not pushed NATO to the borders of the Russian Federation, and if an increasingly offensive military doctrine had not prevailed in that alliance, which it ignored for decades the repeated concerns and well-founded claims of security guarantees by Russia.”