The crossroads thesis

Cuba at the Center of the Americas

Cuba occupies a rare position — roughly 90 miles from Florida, astride the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico, between the Caribbean, the Atlantic and the routes toward Central and South America and Europe. That position made Havana a fleet assembly point, shipbuilding center and commercial hinge for centuries. CubaAtlas recovers that geographic logic and maps how Cuba connected the Americas before — and where it might connect them again.

Cuba was historically powerful when it connected regions, and weaker when it was isolated. The strategy is not “people will come to Cuba” — it is that Cuba can reconnect the Americas.