The Cuba Observatory

01/09/2025

Sponsored by the Observatory. If you can't make it in person, there's a live stream YouTube link. See website.

Relations between Cuba and the United States center around a fundamental contradiction: their respective national projects are incompatible. This contradictory core has shaped, shapes, and probably will continue to shape the dynamics of their interaction, with broad ramifications for the Western Hem...

10/25/2024

Friday, October 25 at 1:30 pm PT: "Collective Memories, Postcolonial Ideologies and Present-day Conflicts: The Mapuche in Chile" by Prof. Figueiredo https://mailchi.mp/stanford.edu/friday-october-25-at-130-pm-pt-collective-memories-postcolonial-ideologies-and-present-day-conflicts-the-mapuche-in-chile-by-prof-figueiredo

10/22/2024

Nov. 7th @ 4:30 pm PT, Stanford U. Click link for details.

The Cuba Observatory of Stanford’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies is excited to host two prominent Havana-based journalists, Liz Oliva Fernandez, and Ed Augustin, for a symposium discussing their award-winning work and experience covering Cuba in various media within and outside C...

10/18/2024

Location: Bolívar House, 582 Alvarado Row, Stanford, CA Event Information: In Code Work, Héctor Beltrán examines Mexican and Latinx coders’ personal strategies of self-making as they navigate a transnational economy of tech work. Beltrán shows how these hackers apply concepts from the code wor...

10/18/2024

09/28/2024

What Cubans think of the forthcoming US presidential election.

09/26/2024

Join us for first CLAS Friday Lecture of Autumn 2024: "Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain: Legacies and New Directions" by Professor Fatoumata Seck

https://mailchi.mp/stanford.edu/tomorrow-first-clas-friday-lecture-of-autumn-2024-suzanne-comhaire-sylvain-legacies-and-new-directions-by-professor-fatoumata-seck

08/30/2024

Some current and former officials have said the 2019 F.B.I. analysis sowed doubt within the C.I.A. and parts of the Trump administration about the root causes of the ailments.

08/28/2024

Wow, world-renowned economist Jeffrey Sachs estimates that per capita GDP in Cuba is 1/3 to 1/4 of what it would be without the US blockade. And yet we still hear even Cubanists claim that the blockade has "no practical effect" or is just "an excuse" the Cuban government uses to deflect blame for its own failures. Well, as Sachs says, if it really doesn't have an effect, then lift it!

Belly of the Beast journalist Liz Oliva Fernández sits down with Jeffrey Sachs, a world-renowned economics professor.Sachs is a bestselling author, a profess...