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ARMANDO CHAGUACEDA
Armando Chaguaceda. Cuban political scientist and historian graduated from the University of Havana (Cuba) and the University of Veracruz (Mexico). Researcher specialized in government and political analysis, and country-expert of the V-Dem project. He studies the processes of democratization and self-cratization in Latin America and Russia.
Society & Politics
Latin America, Russia and the Invasion of Ukraine: A (Post-)Liberal Interpretation
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has resulted in some important geopolitical realignments. One of these has been the...
Society & Politics
Cuba: Citizenship vs Mafia State
These protests are against the status quo, meaning a politically-authoritarian, ideologically-conservative, economically-exploitative and socially-exclusionary regime.
Society & Politics
Political Power and Authorized Academy in Present-day Cuba
In different ways, the dictatorship was in academia...
the regime killed and thought at the same time—
and, of...
Society & Politics
How to Read the 11-15 Protest?
Seventy-two hours after 11-15, many are focusing exclusively —how could they not— on the departure from Cuba...
Society & Politics
Cuba: The End of Exceptionality
The largest social protests in sixty years of post-revolutionary regime broke out in Cuba. As it happens...
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Schmittians of the Caribbean
Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.
Carl Schmitt
Autocracies are political machines, implacable and resistant, that run...
Society & Politics
The surprise and the maneuver: creative mobilization and authoritarian reaction in Cuba
He who despairs over an event is...
Society & Politics
Cuba: the failure of the elites
One cannot serve today those who make history,
one must serve those who are subject to it.
Albert Camus
What...