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The Common: Solon and the Cuba to Come

To Jorge Salcedo, with whom I have ruminated these ideas and with whom I dreamed, in times...

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...

Cuba: Citizenship vs Mafia State

These protests are against the status quo, meaning a politically-authoritarian, ideologically-conservative, economically-exploitative and socially-exclusionary regime.

Eltit, Bolaño and the New Constitution

A few years ago, on the centennial of the Querétaro Constitution, Mexican critic Vicente Quirarte compiled a...

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...

We are Alive! In Praise of the Rebellion on its First Anniversary

I was talking with a friend in Cuba a few days after the July 11, 2021 protests,...

Mexico and the Latin American Left: Blind Spots

After Gabriel Boric’s victory in Chile, we noticed a reaction in Mexico that happened again last Sunday,...

Editorial | An Island’s Destiny: Cuba and the Thaw 2.0

On Monday, May 16, the U.S. administration of Joseph Biden ordered a series measures that will reopen...