Cuba is in economic freefall — driven by a de facto oil blockade instituted by the United States. US President Donald Trump has been clear that he hopes this will lead to the collapse of Cuba’s ...

Includes brief biographical note about the author. NMAI copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Geography and the shaping of early colonial Cuba -- Indigenous inhabitants -- ...

Sometimes when President Trump talks about Cuba, he throws in compliments. “They have a nice landscape. You know it’s a beautiful island,” he said during a signing event at the Oval Office in March.