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About Manolo De Los Santos

Manolo De Los Santos is a researcher and a political activist. For 10 years, he worked in the organization of solidarity and education programs to challenge the United States’ regime of illegal sanctions and blockades. Based out of Cuba for many years, Manolo has worked toward building international networks of people’s movements and organizations. In 2018, he became the founding director of the People’s Forum in New York City, a movement incubator for working-class communities to build unity across historic lines of division at home and abroad. He also collaborates as a researcher with Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and is a Globetrotter/Peoples Dispatch fellow.
  • Cuba

    Cuba goes on a diplomatic tour in an increasingly multipolar World

    Originally published: ProgressiveHub on December 4, 2022 (more by ProgressiveHub)  |

    During the tour of these countries, several new agreements were signed that pointed to a desire to help Cuba.

  • Cuba in the eye of Washington’s hurricane

    Cuba in the eye of Washington’s hurricane

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on October 13, 2022 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    Since the Cuban Revolution triumphed in 1959, the United States has been at odds with the island’s independent path.

  • Relief work in Cuba in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian. Photo: José Manuel Correa/Granma

    How Cuba is dealing with the devastation of Hurricane Ian

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on October 5, 2022 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    The day before Hurricane Ian hit Cuba, 50,000 people were evacuated and taken to 55 shelters. By October 1, less than five days after landfall, 82% of the residents of Havana had their power restored with work ongoing for the western part of the island.

  • The authors at a clinic in Palpite in Cuba. Photo: Odalys Miranda/Twitter

    How Cuba is eradicating child mortality and banishing the diseases of the poor

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on July 8, 2022 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    The drastic reduction in infant mortality rates is yet another testimony to the Cuban Revolution’s attention to the health of the country’s population.

  • Date: April 13, 2018 Place: Lima, Peru (Credit: Juan Manuel Herrera/OAS)

    A second left-wing progressive wave is emerging in Latin America

    Manolo De Los Santos and Gisela Cernadas

    The 9th Summit of the Americas, scheduled to take place in Los Angeles in June, remains uncertain. Since the Biden administration has not invited the leaders of Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela on the grounds of “democracy issues”, the leaders of Cuba, Bolivia, Mexico, Argentina, and other countries have expressed the possibility of refusing to participate.

  • “What is the history of Cuba if not the history of Latin America? And what is the history of Latin America if not the history of Asia, Africa, and Oceania? And what is the history of all these people if not the history of the most ruthless and cruel exploitation of imperialism in the entire world?” - Fidel Castro in 1962 Photo: Public Domain

    Cuba’s non-alignment: A foreign policy of peace and socialism

    Originally published: Morning Star on June 1, 2022 (more by Morning Star)  |

    In Cuba, ‘non-alignment’ has never meant being neutral, and has always meant being opposed to attempts to divide humanity, writes MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS

  • Let Cuba Live

    Let Cuba Live—The movement standing up to Biden’s maximum pressure campaign

    Manolo De Los Santos and Vijay Prashad

    On July 22, U.S. President Joe Biden and his Vice President Kamala Harris released a “fact sheet” on U.S. “measures” against Cuba. The release from the White House said that Cuba was a “top priority for the Biden-Harris administration.”

  • Embargo

    The United States tries to take advantage of the price Cubans are paying for the blockade and the pandemic

    Manolo De Los Santos and Vijay Prashad

    This small island of 11 million people has created five vaccine candidates and sent its medical workers through the Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade to heal people around the world.

Also By Manolo De Los Santos in Monthly Review Magazine

  • Preface January 01, 2022
  • Introduction January 01, 2022

Monthly Review Essays

  • Post-Political Post-Aesthetics
    Marc James Léger Picasso in Palestine

    The universal premises of culture and politics have been subject to criticism from the moment that Enlightenment theories emerged. In postmodern theory, radical skepticism replaces judgement and makes universal speculation seem like either an absurd game or a violent imposition.

Lost & Found

  • The Puzzle of Financialization
    Harry Magdoff Monthly Review Volume 45, Number 5 (October 1993)

    In this reprise from October 1993, Henry Magdoff and Paul Sweezy ask: “Isn’t there anyone around here who understands how this capitalist system works?”

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