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Juan Gualberto Gómez a fortement marqué l'histoire de Cuba au tournant des XIXe-XXe siècles. Né libre de parents esclavisés, journaliste talentueux et farouche défenseur de la cause des Noirs cubains victimes de discrimination raciale en ces temps, il demeura sa vie durant un ardent patriote : c'est lui qui, au signal de José Martí, lança la révolte de 1895 initiant la guerre cubano-hispano-étasunienne à l'issue de laquelle, en 1898, l'indépendance de l'île vis-à-vis de la métropole espagnole fut acquise. Deux fois condamné à l'exil en Espagne par le pouvoir colonial, le leader noir embrassa toutefois les thèses du nationalisme cubain dès son premier exil à Paris entre 1869 et 1876. Cet ouvrage retrace l'éclosion de son patriotisme, arrosée des péripéties personnelles mais aussi des évènements parisiens de la fin du Second Empire et des débuts de la IIIe République.

It is impossible to fully understand Cuba today without also understanding the economic sanctions levied against it by the United States. For over fifty years, these sanctions have been upheld by every presidential administration, and at times intensified by individual presidents and acts of Congress. They are a key part of the U.S. government's ongoing campaign to undermine the Cuban Revolution, and stand in egregious violation of international law. Most importantly, the sanctions are cruelly designed for their harmful impact on the Cuban people. In this concise and sober account, Salim Lamrani explains everything you need to know about U.S. economic sanctions against Cuba: their origins, their provisions, how they contravene international law, and how they affect the lives of Cubans. He examines the U.S. government's own official documents to expose what is hiding in plain sight: an indefensible, vicious, and wasteful blockade that has been roundly condemned by citizens around the world.

En este estudio se plantea la necesidad de analizar también la guerra de Cuba, al inicio de la misma (1895), desde el escenario antillano y un enfoque antillanista; es decir, desde una perspectiva de reajuste del mundo que tienda a la creación de un Estado soberano, independiente tanto de España como de EE.UU., y de una república moral, justa y democrática, totalmente nueva. Si bien el escenario es disímil y disperso, como eran las Antillas, la aspiración democrática y el proyecto antillanista, expresados por autores y actores del temple de Martí, Gómez, Luperón, Hostos o Betances, le confieren unidad y fuerza a la vía que se estaba buscando mediante la guerra libertadora, fuera de los imperios y los modelos, y que debía desembocar en la Confederación de las Antillas libres. El historiador no puede desconocer la existencia y el poder de semejante sueño entre los combatientes mambises, para entender el sentimiento de frustración que nació también allá a raíz de 1898.

This book presents a little-known reality, equivocal, even consciously obscured, and in any case, underreported by the media that are charged with selecting and analyzing information. The mainstream media, multiple but unambiguous, hide a reality that Salim Lamrani is working to restore. Cuban “institutional specialists” and the “special envoys” in Havana certainly mention the existence of an “embargo” in their commentaries concerning the difficulties endured by the Cuban people. But they always mention it in the same way: as briefly and as vaguely as possible, through the turn of a phrase or even with a single word. They cannot deny,