Cuba

LGBT Political Cul-de-sac: Make a U-Turn

by Sherry Wolf

Winter 2009

Electoral Cul-de-sac

Visiting Raúl Castro's Cuba

by Samuel Farber

Summer 2007

ON JULY 31, 2006, THE CUBAN government announced that due to a serious illness, the nature of which was declared a state secret, Fidel Castro was stepping aside as the head of state. His younger brother Raúl, officially designated as his successor since the early days of the 1959 Revolution, was "temporarily" replacing the commander-in-chief.