Rachel Price is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Princeton University. Her most recent book is Planet/Cuba: Art, Culture, and the Future of the Island (2015).
Rachel Price
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Cuba’s Next Chapter
In April 2016, Cuba’s Communist Party (PCC) convened its Seventh Party Congress. Sprinkled throughout the published proceedings were a few attempts at levity by the otherwise laconic Raúl Castro. One joke went as follows: when US politicians critize Cuba for having a single-party system, Raúl responds, “Yes, just like you.” The gullible Americans correct him, […]
