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A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist

An upheaval beckons in an increasingly miserable country

America's pressure campaign against Cuba has forced the regime to negotiate a potential deal that could open the island to US…

Even if the island were not burdened by embargoes and communism it would be a poor investment prospect

But Donald Trump could make a deal with the communist regime

Ideological certainties have hurt Cubans for 70 years. Time to give Trumpian cynicism a chance