Richard Gott
latest news & developmentsIt’s time to let Cuba in from the cold, and Obama is the perfect man to do it
A visit to Havana by a black president ending the US policy of isolation would be as magical as events of 50 years ago.
‘Axis of hope’
The red tide sweeping through Latin America, checked in Peru and MexicoÂ, has achieved another memorable record this week in Ecuador. The substantial electoral victory of Rafael…
Castro’s new soldiers
At a petrol station outside the Cuban town of Cienfuegos, half a dozen teenage girls stand languidly by the pumps, jumping to attention when a car or lorry pulls up. They work…
A new challenge from the South
The large vote for Evo Morales, the socialist and indigenous candidate in the presidential election in Bolivia, and the expected ratification of his success by the congress,…