Since it's clear Fidel Castro has decreed that he will NOT die, Cuba's teeming, restless youth have found a new weapon. And they are giving the convalescent-in-chief a lot of headaches. It's no longer Patria o Muerte but rather something...
Ann Louise Bardach is author of Without Fidel: A Death Foretold in Miami, Havana and Washington and the acclaimed Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana. She is a PEN/USA award winning reporter and was a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and has written for The New York Times, Washington Post Outlook, Los Angeles Times, and The Atlantic. She has appeared on 60 Minutes, Today, and CNN, among others.
The Day Castro Wept
Ann Louise Bardach is author of Without Fidel: A Death Foretold in Miami, Havana and Washington and the acclaimed Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana. She is a PEN/USA award winning reporter and was a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and has written for The New York Times, Washington Post Outlook, Los Angeles Times, and The Atlantic. She has appeared on 60 Minutes, Today, and CNN, among others.
In an exclusive excerpt from her new book, Without Fidel, Ann Louise Bardach penetrates the wall of secrecy around the Castro family and reveals the close calls during Fidel's medical crisis.
How Havana Perfected the Sandwich
Ana Sofia Peláez lives in Brooklyn. A contributor to several websites, she writes about Latin food on her blog Hungry Sofia.
While its ingredients may (or may not) be up for debate, one thing's certain: The Cuban is one of the tastiest creations since sliced flautas.
Obama's Cuba Policy Is Half Right
Andrés Martinez is the director of the Bernard L. Schwartz Fellows Program at the New America Foundation. Previously, he was editorial page editor of the Los Angeles Times. He has also served as assistant editorial page editor at The New York Times. He is the author of 24/7: Living It Up and Doubling Down in the New Las Vegas.
Easing restrictions was a decent first step, says Andrés Martinez, but to make a difference in Cuba, the president must end the embargo and unite Latin America against the Castros.
Time to Make Nice with Cuba?
Alex von Tunzelmann’s Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire was published last year. She writes a film column for The Guardian Online and is working on a book about the Cold War in the Caribbean.
If Obama embraces his popularity in Cuba and abandons the embargo, the Castros will lose an enemy, the region will embrace us-and it will ruin the place.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Jacob Bernstein is a senior reporter at The Daily Beast. Previously, he was a features writer at WWD and W Magazine. He has also written for New York magazine, Paper, and The Huffington Post.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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