Cuba is in economic freefall — driven by a de facto oil blockade instituted by the United States. US President Donald Trump has been clear that he hopes this will lead to the collapse of Cuba’s ...

In 2022, historian Ada Ferrer won a Pulitzer Prize for her acclaimed Cuba: An American History, which traced the island’s entwined relationship with the United States. Her latest book, Keeper of My ...

If anyone mentions Cuba's Barrio Chino or the history of Chinese Cubans, it's usually in reference to culinary traditions that were brought to places like Miami and New York City after the Cuban ...

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Early on in her masterful book Cuba: An American History, Ada Ferrer alludes to a double meaning embedded in her subtitle: “History in the first sense refers to what happened; in the second, to what ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jamaica, the largest English-speaking island in the Caribbean, and Cuba, the largest island in the region are old friends. They ...

The Trump administration is serious about overthrowing the Cuban government and its political economic structure. What can be done to stop it? On Mayday, 2026, Trump signed an executive order ...

With so much attention on Iran in recent weeks, you may have missed the news about the increasingly tense situation with another longtime adversary of the United States – one closer to home. On April ...

Decades ago, Ada Ferrer learned a lesson about what she’d later call the “misencounter between the history I was reading and the history of the people in my life.” During the late 1980s, while ...