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Education Resource
Meet the Journalist: Tracey Eaton
The renewal of diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba after decades of hostility...
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Education Resource
Meet the Journalist: Yana Paskova
Most Americans who visit Cuba recall having a time machine moment. Mine came through discovering...
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Lesson Plans
Museum of Current Crises
This lesson plan outlines a project that allows students the opportunity to connect with a contemporary crisis somewhere in the world.
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Objective: Examine current events in Cuba, now that the US and Cuba have restored diplomatic ties. Essential Question: Is Cuba in the midst of positive change, negative change, or stagnation?
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Pulitzer Center Update
This Week: Cuba in Flux
Cuban communism is in flux. Yet reminders of the regime remain.
August 18, 2015
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/01-10-16/cristina.jpg.webp?h=04bfe22b&itok=IsmfTkEW "State-run media in Cuba must "give a voice to the people" while helping to build a consensus to sustain the socialist government in the post-Castro era, says Cristina Escobar, a leading Cuban journalist.")
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/08-31-15/cuba_paskova_029.jpg.webp?h=997986b2&itok=zFANXXX4 "A young student wearing the uniform of communist youth rests in front of an office for the CDR (Comité de Defensa de la Revolución, or Committee for the Defense of the Revolution,) which is a network of neighborhood watch organizations reporting on any "counter-revolutionary" or anti-communist activity, in Havana, Cuba. Photo by: Yana Paskova")
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/08-18-15/unnamed.jpg.webp?h=0e753701&itok=QyK5RNEQ "Daniel Aleman, 20, and his girlfriend, Kaisa Garcia, 21, before a Buena Fe concert at Mella theater in Havana. Their moments of privacy are rare - like many people their age, they will live with their parents for many years before being able to afford their own place to live. "If you can just forget about the economy, the safety here is nice," Ms. Garcia, a dancer, said. "I just try to create a bubble in my mind away from anything that doesn't work in the country, and I am happy." Image by Yana Paskova. Cuba, 2015.")
