I'm a Cuban living in Italy. I go to Cuba every year and stay in close contact with my relatives. I know it might sound strange, but pre-Covid my relatives told me about a Cuba where life was good, and that's what the people there made me see. Since post-Covid, everything has gotten worse, and we'll reach a peak in 2025. What Trump did in Venezuela beforehand, and the actual oil blockade he implemented, as you know, is leading to a huge crisis, and my relatives, like many of yours, are obviously suffering greatly. What I don't understand is how some Cubans (mostly from Miami) are happy with the situation. How can you be happy with a country without transportation, without electricity, without painkillers or dressings for operations? How can we be happy with the conditions our people, whom we do everything we can to help, live in? I'm not in favor of many things, but the ways an external agent is doing this are terrible, because people who have nothing to do with it, our own relatives, are suffering. If I celebrated this, it would be like celebrating the suffering of my puenlo and my people. There are many ways to bring about change, and this is among the worst. That said, I hope change comes and the suffering is as minimal as possible.

I feel that alot of things that are being said about what's going in cuba are lacking In depth to say the best and most people don't get the full picture, instead they pick a side and go with it and that pisses me off. as a cuban living in cuba I want to address a couple things, mind you I hate politics in all forms and I'm only biased towards my people, not any system of governance or political wet dream so here are some hot takes on reality here ;

0 - there is a schizm between the military (far) and the Civil goverment (pcc) they've been having beef in the shadows since raul stepped down and diaz canel came up, a significant part of the military dosent respect the authority of the president and remain loyal to the castros, they view the civil goverment and its officials as weak, unworthy and basically puppets that have to answer to them since they're the ones that control the economy, the guns and decision making de facto since the beginning of the aperture policy in the 90s and the creation of gaesa, the Civil goverment is a façade meant to white wash the dictatorship that's been going on here since 59

1 - it's impossible to remove the Castros and communists from power without direct military intervention and that's not happening anytime soon. It would be extremely costly and unpopular for the us to intervene in cuba as of right now and instead they rely on the good ol embargo policy that would other wise work if not for our goverment basically not giving a f about its people, they know people have been weakend and conditioned to obey big brother and even when people go protest they don't budge since people rarely become violent so when the police shows up they just stand there watching people scream and bang on pans since they know people won't harm them. To take away that conditioning that basically starts when ur born is a hard thing specially when u feel like it's beyond u and there's nothing u can do. When people actually step up in the protests nobody follows and instead they just let the cops take them away even if they're outnumbered. It's not cowardice it's psychological conditioning.

2 - even if the us keeps it's chokehold on the oil our goverment won't fall, they'll adapt and use alternatives like solar energy (very prominent in my area and all cuba) and people will somehow save up or get sent the money to get those and the like

3 - there is no way of cutting the regimes main artery which is remticances, it's often done via third party people always living abroad and imposible to track since they're not sending money directly to cuba, it always looks like a us to us transaction and they'll need a whole Lotta evidence to know what's really going on

4 - the worst enemy of a cuban is another cuban, there is no doubt that business owners here will exploit and borderline enslave they're workers paying sometimes even less than 1$ per work day for retail jobs and others. I worked a long time as a cook and the most I'd make in a week is 9-10$ including tips and that's being generous

5 - drugs are a goverment psyop, there is an actual epidemic of a drug called "quimico or papelito" (synthetic weed mixed with fentanyl) that's destroying a lot of young peoples life, depression and hopelessness is rampant among young people and alot of them turn to drugs as an answer and the goverment knows 100% who sells it on every neighborhood and they allow it to keep going since they rather have young guys spend most they're day getting the money to buy them and spend the rest zooted out they're mind and it's an endless cycle that keeps the threat of a youth uprising quelled down and they purposefully keep them cheap (around 20 cents a hit) to controll young Cubans

6 - the goverment is keeping people poor and helpess on purpose, they basically have us as hostages to keep extracting money from exiled Cubans, it's impossible to "make it out the hood" here by working hard and saving. The system is rigged and they won't allow anyone to succeed beyond a certain threshold unless you're getting remmitances and relying on family and friends abroad to keep injecting dollars to the economy and they won't let go of that system anytime soon

7 - controlled opposition is a very very very real thing, I believe that a good % of anti govement infuelncers both in cuba and miami are paid off by the government itself, first thing u see when u open Facebook here is anti goverment propaganda, it's almost as if they want u to hate them and go complain about things, none of those voices actually does anything substancial other that repeating the same mantras and bitch and moan without having anything else to offer beyond ragebait and desmoralization.

Feel free to argue on any point I made so far, I might do a follow up post going more in detail about the cuban reality from my pov. God bless u all and viva cuba libre!

We cubans are so tired of the back and forth. It's been 67 yrs. I feel that will happen what it always happens.

We all get excited, we think that we'll be the lucky ones, the generation that is able to return, counting the pennies in that 401k to buy a little thing in Havana.

We dream of beaches we only been told about, of places we only heard from our grandparents. It's as we can see ourselves as Pilar, careless and free, at the beach as Marti once said.

Nothing will happen,

It's just a game, and we are all trapped.

Some still in there, believing in a dream, believing in a system that gave them nothing, but gaslight them daily into believing it did.

I feel nothing will happen, they will still celebrate 68 yrs next January, and then 69 and counting.

Soon, Cubans as a culture will die...

Dios mío, odio que cada vez que un cubano habla sobre el gobierno o la política no lo escuchen, siempre son los no cubanos los que la gente suele prestar atención. Todos hablan de Cuba pero nadie nos escucha. ¿Por qué pasa esto? ¿Por qué siempre son los extranjeros quienes lideran el debate sobre Cuba sin siquiera escucharnos? ¿Tan pocos somos los cubanos?

Brother,escucha,cuba se fue a la mierda porque Fidel era un dictator de mierda y un asesino que agarro todo el poder y se rehuso a soltarlo,eso no se puede justificar con idiologia(En ninguna parte del manifiesto comunista dice que un hombre debe governar un pais 60 años y que despues debe asumir el poder su hermano y un singao que es su titere despues.)

Precisamente el proposito de el comunismo es ser AUTOSUFICIENTE,algo que la revolucion no logró en 30 jodidos años de mucha miseria hasta que la URSS se fue a la mierda en el 90.

Si,la educacion y la salud fueron buenas hace bastante tiempo,pero no justifica ni justificara que a los cubanos no se les permitiera entrar en los hoteles hasta 2006,que se nos prohibiera tener celulares hasta 2008 y que el internet solo fuera oficializado en 2019 entre mil otras albitrariedades de el regimen como apresar a una pobre profesora de historia que se sento en parque con un JODIDO cartel en blanco sin hablar.

Tampoco justifica que aunque en el pais actualmente la electricidad este racionada(En mi vecindario es 3 horas con electricidad,9 sin ella)la policia y los CDR(Comite de vigilancia revolucionaria) siguen apresando a gente que tocan calderos en medio de los apagones,esa gente apenas sabe leer producto de la mierda en la que se ha convertido el sistema educativo(De hecho,probalmente ni sepan explicarte lo que es el comunismo) simplemente son gente que no duerme bien,no come bien y son gente que se quedo y aposto por el sistema y lo unico que han recibido es miseria a cambio.

Ahora,en cuba no solo se nacionalizo las grandes corporaciones,sino tambien los negocios locales como carnicerias y bodegas,negocios que eran manejados por familias de gente inocente y que tuvieron que ver como todo lo que tenian fue destruido.

Tienes que entender,todos los logros de la revolucion estan en el pasado,conforme mas tiempo Fidel pasaba sin hacer eleciones o haciendo elecciones en las que de 'alguna manera'(Sarcasmo) lograba obtener 99% de los votos el pais se iba hundiendo cada vez mas,si sabes hablar español te recomiendo que veas transmisiones viejas de el noticiero en las que Fidel daba discursos enormes prometiendo miles de cosas que no cumplio.

Ademas,te voy a dar la perspectiva de varios socialistas(Porque si,muchos socialistas y comunistas y personas de izquierda estan en contra de el regimen)

Fidel siempre aposto por los rusos y por tecnologia rusa,a pesar de que personas como El Che prefirieran apostar por el modelo chino(Al fina el tiempo le dio la razon,porque la Union Sovietica ya no existe y ni los mismos rusos quieren el comunismo pero China sigue ahi),ahora,no estoy apoyando a el che ni blanqueando su figure,simplemente estoy ilustrando que hasta los mismos comunistas tenian sus reservas con las cosas que Fidel hacia muchad veces.

El otro dia logre sentarme a ver la television en mis tres jodidas horas de corriente y vi un documental sobre una region de china que sobrevive enteramente de paneles solares(Y pense para mi,que bien vendrian esos paneles en este jodido pais donde el sol no para de incordiarnos)pero resulta que Fidel en su soberbia descarto la utilidad de los paneles solares y aposto por grupos electrogenos y termoelectricas de petroleo(Sin duda pensando que siempre iba a tener a la union sovietica para regalarle petroleo a cambio de que incordiara a los estados unidos).

Eso duele,duel mucho cuando toda una vida millones de cubanos se nos vendio que el pais se iba a volver autosuficiente y que no tendriamos que depender de potencias extranjeras,y sin embargo,aqui estamos.

La electricidad no volvera hasta las 9 de la noche,durara tres horas y se ira a las 12,me tocara dormir bajo este calor infernal para levantarme mañana,sin dormir bien,y sin desayunar porque en mi casa no hay una mierda para comer para caminar mis 8 km diarios de ida y vuelta a la escuela en la cual,los profesores probablemente me suelten un discurso similar al que tu acabas de soltar cuando me queje de que nunca puedo llegar a tiempo por la falta de transporte publico,llego con hambre a la escuela y casi siempre me duermo en los primeros periodos.

Y si,quiza haya bloqueo.

PERO SE PUEDE SABER QUE COÑO ESTA HACIENDO EL PARTIDO COMUNISTA MIENTRAS ESTO PASA?

Nose brother,compren petroleo(Y no me jodan conque no hay dinero,y el dinero de las jodidas remesas que llevan recogiendo por años)ah,se lo robaron los castro,quiza puedan refinar crudo cubano,ah,no,el crudo cubano esta siendo comerzializado por una compañia que maneja uno de los castro en españa.Quiza puedan utilizar su conciencia de clases para reconocer que mientras hay gente que se pasa 24 horas sin corriente el singao de el Diazca tiene corriente todo el dia y el Cangrejo(Apodo de un nieto de Raul) reconoce que la poblacion cubana no vive ni la mitad de bien que el.

A todos los que no nacieron en cuba,por favor,la proxima vez que vayan a culpar solamente al bloqueo externo,paren un momento y piensen un momente en la respuesta que da el gobierno,se me ocurren miles de maneras de responder a un bloqueo,NINGUNA TAN ESTUPIDA COMO LO QUE EL GOBIERNO HA HECHO EN 60 AÑOS.

Despite facing ceaseless aggression by the United States regime and having very little profit incentive Cuban medical professionals and researchers have continuously defied the odds and out performed the for-profit healthcare industry of both the United States and other Latin American nations. Imagine all the breakthroughs Cuban researchers could make without the US blockade!

My:

1-The "Reparto" music genre is trash.

2-The day the dictatorship falls, the Revolution Square (Plaza de La Revolución) of Havana will not be destroyed; its name will be changed, because it was built before 1959 with the name of Civic Square (Plaza Cívica) as a tribute to the José Martí's Centenary

3-The opposition is facing certain internal problems. The most insufferable part is that if you don't agree 100% with every aspect of their politics, you're a "communist", "ciberclaria", "chivatón"—ironically resembling the very communists they criticize so much.

Primero antes de que alguien venga a atacarme diciendo que soy comunista y cosas asi quiero dejar bien claro que no lo soy , no estoy a favor del gobierno y se muy bien toda la culpa que tiene este en la actual situacion por su inmovilismo de tantos años , corrupcion, ineptitud , falta de libertades, etc... Dicho esto quisiera explicar mis razones de lo que dice el titulo y leer la opinion de ustedes.

Porque existe aun el embargo?

En mas de 60 años no ha logrado forzar un cambio de gobierno, eso deberia ser prueba suficientemente para saber que esa no es la via correcta.

El pueblo es el que mas lo sufre, directa o indirectamente el cubano de a pie es el mas golpeado, creen que los gobernantes sufren por problemas de combustible? Por apagones ? Por escasez de comida , medicamentos , etc..

Otra razon es que el gobierno lo utiliza para justificar problemas que ni siquiera son por culpa del embargo le dan la excusa perfecta.

Personalmente el embargo y las sanciones me han afectado mucho, soy Programador y he perdido muchas oportunidades muy buenas por culpa de estas, el golpe mas reciente ha sido el cierre del exchange Coinex para cubanos a causa de estas sanciones , este exchange me ayudaba a cambiar la transferencia por USDT y resolver un problema grande , ustedes creen que el cierre de este exchange afecto a alguien de la dictadura ? , es muy dificil salir adelante aqui cuando estas solo y no tienes apoyo de nadie , cuando el gobierno de mi pais y el de USA parecen decididos a exprimir tu vida y bloquear tu oxigeno por todas las vias posibles, muchos de ustedes diran que la solucion es sacar al gobierno, esta bien de acuerdo , pero quien lo va a hacer ? Ni los americanos vendran a sacarlos ni el pueblo lo va ha hacer un pueblo cansado y hambriento, sobrevivir en este pais es un trabajo a tiempo completo , mientras tanto cual parece ser el plan de Trump , apretar mas la tuerca hasta que el pueblo no pueda mas y se lanze a las calles , un plan bastante cruel pues en el proceso muchas personas estan sufriendo y por supuesto los que mas sufren es el pueblo , los que no tienen una familiar fuera que les mande nada , las personas mayores que no tienen a nadie.

No tengo ninguna fé en que Trump ayudara al pueblo Cubano de ninguna forma , por que lo haria ? Si ni siquiera le importa los inmigrantes cubanos que hay en su propio pais y si pudiera los sacaria a todos de golpe , porque iba a importarle entonces los cubanos en Cuba.

Por que cada vez mas sanciones? Por que no permitir la entrada de combustible? Creen que alguien de la dictadura tiene su carro parqueado por falta de combustible? Cuando sancionan a las empresas que hacian negocios aqui y estas se van a quien creen que afecta mas , a los dictadores que tienen otras vias de ingresos o al trabajador que solo contaba con ese trabajo para vivir?

Recientemente Cuba anuncio medidas para cambiar la economia, no es lo que esperabamos pero al menos es un camino , como responde USA? con mas sanciones, por que? Creo de verdad que no es el camino deberian negociar la libertad de presos politicos ,mas seguridad para los inversores y la propiedad privada a cambio del fin de las sanciones, el gobierno muy probablemente aceptaria, los cambios sociales toman mucho tiempo y llegan poco a poco a medida que se les enseña a las personas que mas libertad se traduce en mejor calidad de vida , poco a poco la gente lo va entendiendo y los cambios llegan.

La realidad es que el tiempo va pasando, las condiciones de vida son cada vez mas dificiles y los cubanos no le importamos a nadie.

He terminado divagando un poco de la idea central que tenia cuando empeze a escribir este post y al final hasta me he desahogado un poco , me gustaria saber que piensan ustedes?

This opinion essay is by historian and author of Cuba: An American History, Ada Ferrer. I feel the same way she does about this situation, it was an interesting read.

You can read the article for free if you download the app, but I included it n the post's images.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/opinion/cuba-president-diaz-canel.html

The left's idea that those who fled Cuba and are against the regime are all/mostly "former plantation owners" falls apart easily with simple math and logic.

How old would you imagine someone to be who owned a plantation pre-1959 to be?

It makes much more sense, logically, to assume that the majority of Cuban-born people in the diaspora left from the 80s onwards.

If you speak with these people, they will tell you about the numerous human rights abuses that continued, the attacks on the LGBT community (which the left excuses because "Fidel apologized" lol), or how el pueblo was forced to publicly mourn Fidel.

As a cuban, this is the cuba thats discussed in this sub

https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/editorials/article/cuba-free-market-u-s-sanctions-22320696.php

This book is possibly the best book ever written about Cuba, certainly within the past few years, and explains a lot about Cuba, the Cuban Revolution, and literally how it all fell apart. While this is nothing new for Cubans, I feel that this book is a must read for anyone who really wants to understand Cuba. Sadly, the author died as the book was finished and being printed by the publisher. She was a true believer in the Cuban socialist model at first and then increasingly grew wary at the corruption and hypocrisy of the Regime and its family members over the years especially while interviewing many people for the book and listening to their stories.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.5501174

“Democracy has long proved elusive for Cuba,” Maria de los Angeles Torres, a Cuban exile and a professor of Latin American and Latino studies at the University of Illinois, Chicago, writes in a guest essay for Times Opinion. “The history of the past two centuries — throughout which the island has endured Spanish colonialism, U.S. occupation, a U.S.-backed dictatorship and a regime propped up by the Soviet Union — is in many ways a story of Cuba’s frequent subordination to the economic and political interests of foreign powers.”

Though Cubans at home and abroad, including Dr. Torres’ family, have continued to fight for democracy, what’s on offer today from the American government does not resemble anything reasonable. Cuban officials’ “stated willingness to allow investment from the United States and members of the Cuban diaspora and its release of several political prisoners should not be mistaken for genuine compromises; they are superficial and pre-emptive gestures made by a government that has no intention of relinquishing power,” she writes. “This is not a government that should be trusted with Cuba’s future, much less empowered by the Trump administration.”

Read the full piece here, for free, even without a Times subscription.

Alguien ha visto algún tipo de documento producido en la isla que diga detalladamente proyecciones como:

Ejemplo 1: Si se levanta el embargo el mes próximo y recibimos X mil millones de dólares en inversión, la generación eléctrica aumentará un 40% en dos años.

Ejemplo 2 Con X cantidad de crédito internacional, reduciremos los apagones al 20% del tiempo para 2028.

Ejemplo 3 Con acceso al mercado estadounidense, aumentaremos la producción agrícola un 50% en cinco años.

Ejemplo 4 Con la eliminación del embargo, el salario real promedio alcanzará X dólares mensuales.

Me interesa saberlo porque las vagas proyecciones que he visto son solo para recaudar dólares, pero no el plan ni el propósito de estos en beneficio de los cubanos.

Solo he visto una acumulación de políticas orientadas a:

Atraer inversión extranjera.
Recuperar el acceso al mercado estadounidense.
Incrementar exportaciones.
Expandir turismo.
Obtener financiamiento internacional.
Integrar a la diáspora cubana como fuente de capital.

Es decir, en los verbos atraer, recuperar, incrementar, expandir, obtener e integrar no veo una acción concreta planificada y dirigida al bienestar de la población cubana.

¿Me pueden ilustrar?

Al menos en los primeros años cuba deberia adoptar posiciones como la de paises que no tienen ejèrcito, de esa forma se deja de priorizar a los militare y deja de haber tanto desvió de recursos.

Quiero empezer a decir que quiero creer que la mayoría somos cubanos , que de alguna forma o otra todos hemos vivido el comunismo y lo hemos padecido. Pero la verdad no se puede borrar a cada rato leo que alguien apoya la mentira de revolución que llevamos más 60 años aguantando. En Cuba los hospitales son una mierda los doctores cada año son peores, los maestros ahora todos son emergentes no queda ninguno de carrera como los enfermeros .

La isla es un basurero perpetuo con salideros de agua y también de aguas sucias, quiero que alguien me diga si nunca metió el pie en un hueco o se obstinó esperando una guagua y seguro sufrió una marcha de esa y se fue caminando pa su casa.

Cómo puede ser que hay cubanos que digan que antes de la pandemia Cuba está bien. Bien de que seguro que uno resolvía más y las cosas aparecían si tenía el dinero pero bien Cuba no estaba. No quiero poner todas las cosas que estában y siguen mal y continuarán mal porque hasta que el cubano de adentro y el de afuera no digan basta todo seguirá igual. Trump que meta las manos y los ahorque que no puedan pa donde girarse y pedir ayuda y que el pueblo sufra más o menos total estamos sufriendo desde el principio con ellos.

Aqui a los únicos que no le gusta lo que está pasando son a los vividores de la desgracia del cubano de a pie a los que te vende la recarga los que tienen una mipime y te vende todo caro a los de la agencia y todos los singaos como a la familia de los Castro y Díaz canel que vive y roba del pueblo

https://archive.is/Z2L3X

No se si en los últimos días se han percatado del caos que se ha formado en las redes después de que se publicaran videos e imágenes de los carnavales y por consiguiente de las congas en las ciudades de Camagüey y Matanzas. En esta ultima se difundieron imágenes de una conga en la que se cantaba: “Pincha, que yo te cargo la java” o sea, traducido: “Apuñala, que yo te llevo comida a la cárcel”.

Esto evidentemente ha causado gran indignación entre los usuarios, pero también le ha dado la oportunidad de desahogar su racismo sin repercusiones a aquellos que así lo deseaban, ya que la gran mayoría de las personas que se veían en las imágenes eran de tez oscura. Lo que desató una ola de comentarios racistas como “En que parte de Haití es?”, “Matanzas ya parece el Congo” o “La skin no falla”.

Me es incomprensible celebrar y cantar esas vulgaridades sabiendo que las cárceles están repletas de prisioneros políticos, el mensaje que se les transmite a aquellos que han sido encarcelados es que al pueblo no le importa la situación. Sobretodo demuestra el nivel de degradación social que ha sufrido Cuba en los últimos años, algo que le viene de lujo a la dictadura.

Dicho esto los comentarios racistas me parece que no tienen lugar, esto no es un tema de raza, sino de opresores contra oprimidos.

Good afternoon friends, I want to go in deep today about an issue that's rarely touched upon when it comes to discussing modern cuban society and imo, it's the main thing tearing my country apart, not the economic blockade nor oil embargo, im referring to the often times unspoken and taboo subject of our own self hatred, self sabotaging and the general envy between us in society.

However, I theorize that things are this way by design rather than a natural phenomena of the circumstances we have to endure.

Unlike other places in the world, it's borderline imposible to climb up the social ladder by one's own hardwork and effort, there's always a deus - ex machina element to the upper and middle echelon of society, mainly having someone close abroad, either being a family member or a friend that is able to help you materially speaking.

Hence societal division, jeaulsy wnd animosity is rampant between us, most people (including me) me believe that it's not fair that a so called "egalitarian" system is really bulit around mainly extracting wealth from the diaspora while seclduing and marginalizing the working class that is the blood and soul of this nation. it's not fair for me or anyone to bust our butts working grueling hours under extremely difficult circumstances for a paycheck that dosent cover our most basic living expenses and having to ration everything in order to have some food on the table everyday while the so called "privileged" don't do anything positive for anyone and get rewarded and treated better just because they have someone out there that looks after them.

From the moment we are born we are taught to be fake, to never express our true feelings to the world and instead gossip and trash talk everything and everyone behind they're back. That is how we keep the appearance of a cohesive and functioning society in the eyes of the world, that is why everyone appears to be friendly and open towards eachother while harboring negative emotions towards eachother for a variety of reasons, mainly but not limited to econmic reasons.

You can see this class divisions that supposedly don't exist starting from school, it is a fact that teachers will favor and protect wealthy kids and the parents enable this rather than discouraging it. There are no private schools but it is very common that a certain class group ((think 6th grade A) is composed by wealthy kids and the rest (6th B,C etc) by common kids, the first group would have the best and most upkeeped classroom and the rest would get the worst ones, also the wealthier group would almost always get the careers they want by pure nepotism and they'll qualify with A+ grades because the exams would be handed out to them before the test day.

Most of those privileged kids if they stay here would aim for a career in the medical sector since its viewed historically as the most respected field, but I can personally attest that they're abilities as medical personnel are non existent and it's so obvious that they're not qualified by the way they handle the most basic medical procedures. They just choose the career either due to family pressure or as a status symbol. Unfortunately, those are current representatives of what once called the best health system in the latam, it's no longer that way.

Our parents would often teach us to distrust and dislike one another, gender doesn't matter, boys and girls would act that way and almost every friendgroup would eventually collapse for the most pitty of reasons and friendships often feel like they're timed to end when one can no onger benefit from the other in a material way. having that in the back or your mind, the fear of being played and used keeps us from developing meaningful relationships, and this applies also to romantic ones not just friendships.

The toxicity between us young people will never allow us to group and organize to create any serious political oposition much less make a meaningful change, everyone hates the way things are but everyone still follows the same system because it's deeply embedded in our minds.

We are our own worst enemy, We are the blockade...

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It's an age old strategy that works. It's brilliant because the US wins without firing a shot. People may be mad about it, but it's more humane than fighting a war because no one dies.

I just wanted to share this moment because it filled me with pride to hear Cuba mentioned on such a huge stage like the Super Bowl. Hearing Bad Bunny say ‘Cuba’ in front of millions of people gave me a real sense of unity and hope. For me it was a beautiful little moment of representation, small but important. 

19 May 2026 *(transcript and video at link) - Historian and Pulitzer Prize winner Ada Ferrer has spent her career exploring history, identity and memory. In her new book, "Keeper of My Kin," she turns inward, tracing her own family story across generations, while examining the larger forces that shaped Cuba and the U.S. alike. Geoff Bennett spoke with her about her family history and the stories that families choose to carry forward.