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Communism’s Cuban Orphans

In a conversation this week with Atlantic correspondent Jeffery Goldman, Fidel Castro admitted that the Cuban socialist economic system was failing. As Washington considers loosening the trade embargo, the World Policy Journal reflects on Silvana Paternostro's spring 1996 article on the economic difficulties faced by the common Cuban.

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Inside Mexico’s Drug War

The arrest and charge of American cartel leader Edgar Valdez Villareal comes as the Mexican drug war intensifies. Tomas Kellner and Francesco Pipitone take an in depth look at the situation. Reprinted from the World Policy Journal's spring issue.

by Tomas Kellner and Francesco Pipitone