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Two years after its largest anti-government protests in decades, Cuba continues on a downward spiral, writes University of Virginia assistant professor Cristina Lopez-Gottard. How desperate has the situation become in Cuba? |
So desperate that in 2022 alone more than 220,000 Cubans sought entry into the United States via the Southern border — that's more than 2 percent of the island nation's entire population. "This rise in outward migration is a response to vastly deteriorating economic and political conditions," writes Lopez-Gottard. Since the protests, Cuba's president, Miguel Diaz-Canel, has "doubled down on repression and initiated a new penal code that further criminalizes dissent," she writes. Even more alarming, Havana is talking with Chinese authorities about expanding Beijing's intelligence capabilities and military facilities on the island, which lies just 90 miles from U.S. territory. Cuba's partnership with China, says the author, "is all too reminiscent of the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962." "The escalating desperation of both Cuba's leadership and its ordinary citizens will continue to lead to drastic choices," she writes. For the former, it will mean deciding whether to tighten its ties with other U.S. adversaries; for the latter, it means pondering a choice between a hopeless existence in Cuba and a perilous trip abroad and the promise of a better tomorrow. Read the op-ed at TheHill.com. |
Welcome to The Hill's Views & Opinions newsletter, it's Friday, July 14. I'm Daniel Allott, bringing together a collection of key opinion pieces published from a wide range of voices. |
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By Dov Zakheim, former deputy undersecretary of Defense |
Yogi Berra once opined that "it ain't over till it's over." With regard to Swedish entry to NATO, and indeed that of Ukraine, truer words were never spoken. |
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By Mac McCorkle, professor of the practice at Duke's Sanford School of Public Policy |
Although full of sound and fury, The Supreme Court's Creative 303 decision signifies nothing about a real legal case and very little about real distinctions among the justices. In this non-case, rhetorical culture-war jousting triumphed over good judicial sense. |
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By Alexander Motyl, professor of political science at Rutgers University-Newark |
Fixing Russian culture will be a task for generations. But, if Nazi Germany is a guide, ridding Russian political culture of its genocidal content will require that Russia, like Germany in the 1940s, lose a war, in this case the war against Ukraine, and experience an ideological and cultural "apocalypse." | | |
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By Derek Hunter, conservative podcaster |
It's fun to watch those who insisted Biden was perfectly fit for office in 2020 shift to a defensive posture and pray for his retirement. They aren't turning against him, per se, they just want him to go away. |
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