“I think I can do anything I want with it.” In the wake of the U.S. military’s arrest of Nicolás Maduro, in Venezuela, and now the prolonged war in Iran, Trump has spoken routinely of making a move on Havana. Anderson is intimately familiar with Cuba in crisis: he and his family lived there during an exceptionally bleak moment in the nineties, after the island lost its Soviet backing, and he has been one of the finest chroniclers of Cuba’s politics, people, and culture. But, “even if negotiations with the U.S. yield an agreement to hold elections,” Anderson writes, “Cuba has no organized political opposition that could run against the Communist Party, let alone take over the country.” And he adds, “The best-known dissidents are dead, imprisoned, or in exile, too far removed from recent politics to be taken seriously.”
Author: David Remnick
Published at: 2026-03-23 22:30:00
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