Review of Cuban-American Blogs

D emocracy does not invest people with wisdom. It merely respects their collective stupidity. Still, democracy is preferable to tyranny whi...

Despite the pressure of these anxious days, I feel an obligation to the historical record to note that Babalú has published its 10,000th pos...

Jorge Más Santos is our Fidelito. Or, at least, that's how he perceives himself. Which means, of course, that he is nothing without his ...

Never did it occur to me, and even now I find it difficult to believe, that I would see the end of American democracy before my own country ...

Apparently it is not only cash remittances and family visits that have hindered Cubans from reaching the brink of the abyss at the bottom of...

" Memo to Barry ... Shut the F*ck up already. I mean you went back on your pledge (LIED) to accept public financing of your campaign an...

"I can no more disown [Rev. Jeremiah Wright] than I can my white grandmother -- a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed aga...

The "Wet Foot/Dry Foot" policy is an open invitation for other countries to treat Cuban exiles as inhumanely as the U.S. does and ...

"I've said to my beloved friend and colleague John McCain, a friend of 25 years, 'John, I love you, but I'm not just going ...

Marx was the most humorless man who ever lived. His admirers often attribute his dourness to the fact that he had a hundred festering boils ...

I look at Fidel Castro with long-petrified disdain. The odium does not boil anymore, or even bubble at the surface. Every last drop of bile ...

If the political pundits are to be believed everything is riding on tonight's final presidential debate. In fact, nothing is at stake ex...

The history of Cuba and the history of the United States are so enmeshed that it is impossible to tell one without also telling the other. T...

From last year, we are reproducing our landmark historical study: Christopher Columbus Was a Cuban Which should put to end all disputations ...

Today marks the 140 th anniversary of the Grito de Yara , the start of Cuba's first War of Independence (1868-1878). This epic strugg...

Every other blog except Babalú is encouraged when a thread suddenly comes alive. A wide berth is usually given to such fecund posts and they...