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Historian of Cuba and Communist systems. LatAm & Caribbean History PhD candidate at UW-Madison. U of Havana BA, UW-Madison MA. Bylines in The Nation Mag & Dissent Mag, among others.
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Cuba made headlines for 1/10 (10%) leaving the island, then again for 1/5 (20%), but now as many as 1/4 (25%) have left and many who remain are just trying to figure out how to get out.
Insane. Unprecedented. Depressing as hell.
www.economist.com/the-americas...
Today is the anniversary of Franco's death, which feels like a good excuse to share the story of when Communist Cuba decreed 3 days of official mourning for Spain's anti-Communist caudillo 🧵
Nobody is beyond redemption but I genuinely do not understand how you can carry on an affair with someone you are covering as a journalist, fail to disclose it, get exposed, and then get another job.
The more I learn about Cuba holding the Panamerican games in 1991 the more surreal it is.
The country is going bankrupt and preparing for total economic collapse, but spend a ton of hard currency and invaluable construction materials that they have to import on a one off stadium
Even if Trump left office tomorrow and someone who was actually capable and interested in bringing back students replaced him, imho a lot of the damage is done. It's reputational. It's about stability and can't be easily fixed.
And Americans who were getting subsidized by foreigners will suffer
Foreign student enrollment in U.S. colleges has stalled, with a 17 percent decline in new students this fall after Trump policy changes, a key survey shows.
