The war in the Middle East has brought about serious changes to the U.S.-Spanish defense relationship. Spain’s restrictions to the U.S. use of military bases and access to the airspace for U.S. aircraft for all operations against Iran have sparked intense debates around the future of Spanish and European defense’s allyship with the U.S. The U.S.-Spain defense partnership which spans seven decades is deteriorating alongside NATO, calling into question the reliability of future

Since 1959, Cuba has been under an oppressive and cruel dictatorship that has committed countless atrocities. From mass killings, political assassinations and labor camps, political censorship, the Cuban people have been held at gunpoint by the Castro regime for nearly seventy years now. While the international community has routinely documented the systemic humanitarian abuses that occur in Cuba, their hands remain tied by the very framework that has failed Cuba, internation

The execution of Ángel María Clausell García on April 29, 1959, at La Cabaña in Havana, Cuba, stands at the center of my family’s memory. He was my great-grandfather. Accused of a crime that was never meaningfully proven and denied due process, he was executed by firing squad by the revolutionary government. His death did not end with the moment of execution. It continued through the family he left behind, through the home that was taken, through the children who were forced