This week’s issue presents new episodes of our Pensar Cuba podcast, co-produced by elTOQUE and hosted by jurist Julio Antonio Fernández Estrada, which provides an open and honest space for reflection on Cuba’s present and future. Recent conversations feature activist Amelia Calzadilla, who discusses the challenges of return, investment, and national reconstruction, and Boris González Arenas, who reflects on the current state and organization of the Cuban opposition.
We also review key developments in U.S.-Cuba relations—from the release of prominent Cuban dissident José Daniel Ferrer to exile in Miami at the request of the Trump administration, to the Supreme Court’s decision to review two historic Cuban property claims, and the deportation of Cuban nationals to Africa. Finally, in our Economic Roundup, economist Ricardo Torres analyzes the worsening water crisis, the reconstruction of Matanzas’ fuel storage facilities, and the ongoing collapse of the Cuban peso.
