As the region's leaders gather for the Summit of the Americas on April 14-15, some plan to argue for Castro's inclusion — but will any speak up for the Cuban people? Please join us for a discussion among a panel of experts, some of whom recently returned from Cuba.

Puzzling and enraging some of New York City's Cuban-Americans, the state's congressional delegation has led the opposition to a House resolution expressing American solidarity with Cuba's democratic activists, on the eve of what is being called a historic gathering on the Communist-ruled island.

If a narco-state or violent crackdown emerges in Venezuela, the White House will no longer be able to avert its attention from the mess or to ‘lead from behind.'

As Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez battles cancer, it's anyone's guess who his successor will be.

The Cuban people need--and deserve--profound change, including political liberty and economic opportunity, even as Fidel and Raúl Castro favor a transition from one dictator to another that preserves the vestiges of the Cuban police state and the nation’s decrepit socialism. Yet much of the world is eager to support a...

Half a century later, the Bay of Pigs is still the mother of all American military and foreign-policy disasters. It marks the start of America's bizarre habit of fighting our enemies with one arm pinned firmly behind our back, and dumping our friends when the going gets dicey. It also offers some pungent lessons for our current messes in Libya and Afghanistan.

In Cuba the Morning After: Confronting Castro’s Legacy (AEI Press, September 2003), AEI scholar Mark Falcoff discusses Cuba’s future after four decades of communism. Falcoff deals with Cuba as a country whose revolutionary legacy may well have permanently destroyed its viability as a nation-state. Most importantly, Falcoff argues that...

Manuel Roig-Franzia went too far in accusing Marco Rubio of "embellishing" and questioning his place as a member of the exile community. You don't charge someone of lying without proof. And you don't question the core of someone's identity without a shred of evidence.