Live event info and tickets here. For more than 60 years, Cuba has survived on two seemingly contradictory economic strategies: leaning on friendly communist and socialist countries, and flirting with capitalism.

U.S. military intervention in Cuba could perhaps succeed in toppling the government. It would also be a grave mistake. An attack on Cuba could provoke a catastrophic humanitarian crisis, unmanageable mass migration to the United States and Mexico and an extended civil conflict or insurgency close to U.S. shores.

Dozens of congressional Democrats sent a letter to President Trump on Thursday raising urgent alarm over an escalating humanitarian crisis in Cuba that has been made worse, they said, by the administration’s fuel quarantine against the island.

A ship bringing humanitarian aid to Cuba arrived in Havana on Tuesday loaded with solar panels, bicycles, food and medicine as the island’s