Axel Gyldén

Jonatan Vseviov, 44, architect of Estonia’s foreign and defence policies, is the country’s highest-ranking diplomat currently in office. A former ambassador to the United States and now Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he is also the theorist behind the concept of a comprehensive approach to defence and co-author of the national defence strategy.

Among all the ongoing wars and crises (Iran, Ukraine, Middle East, Venezuela, Cuba, not forgetting Taiwan), the Cuban issue is the only one that, so to speak, falls within the domain of American domestic politics. And this, for reasons that are at once historical, geographical, and political.

A former CIA officer specialising in Cuba and Latin America, Brian Latell is one of the foremost experts on Castroism. For several decades, the reports he wrote on the Castro brothers at "Langley" – the CIA headquarters near Washington – landed on the desks of US presidents. In 2007, he published After Fidel, an authoritative biography of Raul Castro. L'Express: Is the US embargo, which dates back to 1962, responsible for Cuba's economic collapse?