The Western Hemisphere

AFPI Releases Research Report on Cuba and the Fight for the Western Hemisphere

This week, the America First Policy Institute (AFPI) released a new research report, The Dictatorship Next Door: Cuba and the Fight for the Western Hemisphere, under AFPI’s Western Hemisphere Initiative. This report outlines the history and threat of the Cuban regime, particularly due to its deepening ties with China, Russia, Iran, and other hostile regimes, and provides policy recommendations for treating Cuba as a central front in confronting threats to American security across the Western Hemisphere.

Havana’s Long Shadow

FACT SHEET: The Dictatorship Next Door: Cuba and the Fight for the Western Hemisphere

Cuba sits just 90 miles from Florida at a strategic crossroads in the Caribbean. As the island enters its most precarious period in decades, Havana has deepened its dependence on China, Russia, Iran, and other regimes hostile to the United States who are working to undermine U.S. interests, expand authoritarian influence in the Western Hemisphere, and threaten American national security.

The Dictatorship Next Door: Cuba and the Fight for the Western Hemisphere

Cuba remains the Western Hemisphere’s longest-standing authoritarian regime and a major strategic concern for the United States. More than six decades after the Cuban Revolution of 1959, the island continues to operate under a centralized, one-party political system in which the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) is constitutionally designated as the “superior driving force of society and the State.”

Ortega’s ‘Revolution’ Threatens America And We Ignore It At Our Peril

On July 19, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega commemorated the 47th anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution, which brought him to power in 1979. To celebrate, he publicly declared that there will never again be elections in Nicaragua.