All Posts Tagged With: "Cuba"
Coercion is What Makes the Difference
This past weekend, the New York Times ran a story on the Park Slope Food Co-op in Brooklyn, NY. It seems some of the members of the cooperative grocery store are hiring their nannies or other non-family members to work the occasional shift at the store as required by its by-laws. What follows is a [...]
22Feb2011 | Carl Oberg | 4 comments | ContinuedWell, Mr. Moore?
Cuba banned Michael Moore’s 2007 documentary, Sicko, because it painted such a “mythically” favourable picture of Cuba’s healthcare system that the authorities feared it could lead to a “popular backlash”, according to US diplomats in Havana. The revelation, contained in a confidential US embassy cable released by WikiLeaks , is surprising, given that the film [...]
18Dec2010 | Sheldon Richman | 8 comments | ContinuedEnd the Cuban Embargo!
Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro have nothing to talk about. While they do their diplomatic dance, the Cuban people are suffering because of the American trade embargo. It should end forthwith. The idea that trade between Americans and Cubans must await an American president’s say-so is an insult to anyone who aspires to [...]
23Apr2009 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedCan We Tell Those Huddled Masses to Scram? Immigration and the Constitution
In 1873 some Presbyterians in Kentucky invited a young Canadian to be their pastor. Tensions in the border state were still high following the War of Southern Independence, and the congregants hoped that a neutral outsider could pacify folks not only within their own church but even across denominations. Rev. A.B. Simpson succeeded so well [...]
1Nov2006 | Becky Akers | 25 comments | ContinuedWashington’s Inadvertent Support for Cuban Communism
Havana, Cuba—Roberto Alarcón, well-dressed but of unexceptional appearance, is thought to be the No. 3 man in Cuba, after only Fidel and Raúl Castro. He lazily sprawled in his chair before eight American journalists, fondling his cigar. Asked about Havana’s willingness to negotiate with the United States over its embargo against his country, Alarcón responded: [...]
1Jul2002 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | ContinuedCuba in Revolution by Miguel A. Faria, Jr.
Hacienda Publishing • 2001 • 452 pages • $26.95 Reviewed by George C. Leef The vicious regime of Fidel Castro has for more than 40 years trampled on individual rights in Cuba, but the details of his seizure of power and subsequent Stalinist rule remain surprisingly little known in the United States. Within weeks of [...]
1Jun2002 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedNational Gun Registration: The Road to Tyranny
Miguel A. Faria Jr., M.D., is the editor-in-chief of Medical Sentinel, the journal of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, and author of Vandals at the Gates of Medicine: Historic Perspectives on the Battle Over Health Care Reform (1995) and Medical Warrior: Fighting Corporate Socialized Medicine (Hacienda Publishing Inc., 1997, www.haciendapub.com). Georg Hegel (1770-1831), [...]
1Mar2001 | Miguel A. Faria Jr. | 0 comments | ContinuedPsychiatry in a Communist Utopia
Miguel Faria, Jr., M.D., is editor-in-chief of the Medical Sentinel, published by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, and author of Medical Warrior: Fighting Corporate Socialized Medicine. I recently read a book that should shock freedom-loving and civil-liberty-loving readers, even the libertarians, Objectivists, and Americans of other political persuasions who (thanks to Dr. Thomas [...]
1Nov2000 | Miguel A. Faria Jr. | 1 comment | ContinuedLa Lucha: The Human Cost of Economic Repression in Cuba
Patricia Linderman is a writer and translator currently living in Leipzig, Germany. As I opened the gate of the high security fence around my yard in Havana, a black woman in her 30s glanced left and right and quickly wheeled her rusty Chinese bicycle inside. Her name was Marta, and she was wearing a pair [...]
1May2000 | Patricia Linderman | 4 comments | ContinuedCome to America, John Paul
David Boaz is executive vice president of the Cato Institute and editor of The Libertarian Reader and Liberating Schools. You don’t have to be Catholic to admire Pope John Paul II’s role in undermining communism in Europe and his courageous visit to Cuba last year. Who else in the world could make Fidel Castro broadcast [...]
1Feb1999 | David Boaz | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Other Tobacco War
Aaron Lukas is an analyst at the Cato Institute’s Center for Trade Policy Studies. The U.S. Customs Service recently mounted a major offensive in the federal government’s latest brainchild: the war on Cuban cigars. Agents swept through exclusive Manhattan clubs and restaurants, arresting managers and patrons alike. Once again, law-abiding New Yorkers are free to [...]
1Jan1999 | Aaron Lukas | 0 comments | ContinuedSpanish-American War: Death, Taxes, and Incompetence
Remember the Maine!” was the battle cry that led America into the Spanish-American War in 1898. The mysterious explosion of the U.S.S. Maine in Havana harbor killed 260 Americans and triggered hostility toward Spain, the suspected culprit. Spain was no threat to U.S. interests, but some Americans wanted to help the Cubans, who were struggling [...]
1Dec1998 | Burton W. Folsom Jr. | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Conquest of the United States by Spain
(Editor’s Note: One hundred years ago the United States went to war against Spain in its first full-blown imperialist adventure. As a result of the war, the United States gained control of the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Guam, and Cuba. The following year William Graham Sumner [1840–1910], the classical liberal sociologist at Yale University, published a [...]
1Dec1998 | William Graham Sumner | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Idiocy of Autocracy
In any dictatorship, the biggest fool is the dictator. It takes a prodigious amount of self-deception to believe you are running a country. I was reminded of that as I heard about Fidel Castro’s preparations for the Pope’s visit to Cuba last winter. In an interview on Cuban television, Castro said he didn’t think the [...]
1Jun1998 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedInventing Life in Cuba
Marc Olshan is a professor of sociology at Alfred University in Alfred, New York. In the hills of the Sierra de Cubitas, Cuba, a rusted-out truck loaded with scavenged lumber creeps onto the broken pavement. The lumber sticks out well past the end of the flatbed and, lacking a piece of cloth, the driver has [...]
1Apr1998 | Marc A. Olshan | 1 comment | ContinuedRoberto and Fidel: Two Versions of Share the Wealth
Cecil Bohanon and T. Norman Van Cott teach in the department of economics at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana. The October 1997 death of Roberto Goizueta, the former CEO of Coca-Cola who fled Fidel Castro’s Cuba in 1961, offers an opportunity to make a telling comment on the Cuban economy. To wit, the corporate regime [...]
1Apr1998 | and Cecil E. Bohanon | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Socialist Dream Lives
K. L. Billingsley is a journalism fellow at the Center for the Study of Popular Culture in Los Angeles. The United Nations development agency recently rated nations on how they combat poverty, thereby providing valuable lessons in economics, politics, and even diplomacy. At the head of the list stands Trinidad and Tobago, a tiny Caribbean [...]
1Nov1997 | K. L. Billingsley | 0 comments | Continued-
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