Cuba
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The Cuban Missile Crisis @60: POSTMORTEMS
Washington, D.C., December 13, 2022 – In the immediate aftermath of the resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev met with the Czechoslovakian Communist Party leader, Antonin Novotny, and told him that “this time we really were on the verge of war,” according to minutes of their October 30, 1962, meeting posted today… Continue reading
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Putin invokes Castro’s legacy
A three-meter-tall bronze statue of Fidel Castro was unveiled on Tuesday in the Fidel Castro Square in Moscow’s Sokol District by Russian President Vladimir Putin and Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel in memory of the historical leader of the Cuban Revolution. Continue reading
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The Real Reason The US Is Against The Entire World on Cuba
This week Lee Camp examines the cruelty and futility of the U.S. embargo on Cuba. Continue reading
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The Cuban Missile Crisis @ 60 Getting to Know the Cubans: Part 2
Washington, D.C., November 3, 2022 – As Cuban-Soviet ties grew stronger from late 1960 through early 1961, the Cubans repeatedly asked for military assistance and security guarantees from the Soviets and expressed growing concern about the threat of a U.S. intervention, according to Russian archival documents published today by the National Security Archive. The Cubans… Continue reading
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The Cuban Missile Crisis @ 60 The Cuban Missile Crisis Cover-Up
DOCUMENTS RECORD HOW KENNEDY ADMINISTRATION BURIED QUID PRO QUO THAT RESOLVED MISSILE CRISIS LETTERS IMPLICATE PRESIDENT KENNEDY AS AUTHOR OF POLITICAL ATTACK ON U.N. AMBASSADOR ADLAI STEVENSON Continue reading
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The Cuban Missile Crisis @ 60 The Most Dangerous Day
Washington, D.C., October 27, 2022 – The most dangerous 24 hours of the Cuban Missile Crisis came on Saturday, October 27, 1962, 60 years ago today, as the U.S. moved closer to attacking Cuba and nuclear-armed flashpoints erupted over Siberia, at the quarantine line, and in Cuba itself—a rapid escalation that convinced both John Kennedy and… Continue reading
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The Cuban Missile Crisis @ 60 Briefing NATO Allies
Washington, D.C., October 21, 2022 – President John F. Kennedy made unilateral decisions to impose a naval blockade and approve other military moves, but winning the support of European allies remained central to U.S. policy during the Cuban Missile Crisis, according to declassified records of briefings delivered to NATO leaders shortly before Kennedy announced the… Continue reading
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The Cuban Missile Crisis @ 60 How John F. Kennedy Sacrificed His Most Consequential Crisis Advisor
Washington D.C., October 17, 2022 – In a secret “eyes only” memorandum for John F. Kennedy, written 60 years ago today at the outset of the Cuban Missile Crisis, U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson admonished the president to abandon his initial plan to attack Cuba and to consider, instead, the diplomatic option of dismantling U.S. missile… Continue reading
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Getting to Know the Cubans: Khrushchev Meets the Castro Brothers
Washington, D.C., October 14, 2022 – Today the National Security Archive publishes for the first time in any language a translation of the first meeting between Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and Cuban Defense Minister Raul Castro on July 18, 1960. The newly available transcript helps explain Khrushchev’s 1962 determination that defending Cuba from U.S. intervention would… Continue reading
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Without Culture, Freedom Is Impossible: The Thirty-Eighth Newsletter (2022)
In 2002, Cuba’s President Fidel Castro Ruz visited the country’s National Ballet School to inaugurate the 18th Havana International Ballet Festival. Founded in 1948 by the prima ballerina assoluta Alicia Alonso (1920–2019), the school struggled financially until the Cuban Revolution decided that ballet – like other art forms – must be available to everyone and so must be… Continue reading
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Russia won’t congratulate CIA on its diamond jubilee
In the Russian journal Natsionalnaya Oborona (National Defence), the chief of Russia’s foreign intelligence Sergey Naryshkin has written a riveting essay on the 75th anniversary of the Central Intelligence Agency, which falls on Sunday. It is an unusual gesture, especially in the middle of the hybrid war in Ukraine. Continue reading
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Cuba: Sanctions fuel the fire!
In Cuba, a massive fire broke out at an oil storage facility in the city of Matanzas last week. Around 7pm local time on August 5, a lightning strike set off a blaze in crude oil storage tank 52 at the Matanzas Supertanker Base. As of the morning of August 8, three out of the eight tanks at the site had collapsed. Continue reading
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Cuban vaccine against lung cancer makes its way in the United States
Cimavax-EGF, a Cuban therapeutic vaccine against lung cancer, conquers the scientific community and the population of the United States based on the achievements compiled in studies carried out. The vaccine was obtained after more than two decades of research and have shown satisfactory results in patients in advanced stages of lung cancer. Continue reading
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‘We Will Prevail’: A Conversation With Cuba’s President Miguel Díaz-Canel
In 1994, Miguel Díaz-Canel began a new position in Santa Clara, not far from his birthplace of Placetas, as the provincial secretary of the Cuban Communist Party. He set aside the air-conditioned car given to him and went to work each morning on his bicycle, his long hair and jeans defining him. Díaz-Canel organized rock… Continue reading
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The Code of Families, a Document Built Among All Cubans
This week, Cuba began a historic process as Cubans started to going to more than 78,000 meeting points to discuss the new draft of the Family Code, a broad, complex, but very important process for Cuban families. Continue reading
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Cuban Government Spokeswoman Joins BT on Failed Regime Change Plot
The Biden administration, CIA, and associated cut-outs and think tanks were promoting what were supposed to be massive protests in Cuba this week, but turned out to be nearly non-existent. Deputy Director of US Affairs at the Cuban Foreign Ministry Johana Tablada de la Torre explains what happened to the CIA-fomented plans for protest and why the… Continue reading
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How the US Government Stokes Racial Tensions in Cuba and Around the World
10 September 2021 — MintPress News BLM for Thee, but Not for Me In Washington’s eyes, the point of funding Black, indigenous, LGBT or other minority groups in enemy countries is not simply to promote tensions there; it is also to create a narrative that will help convince liberals and leftists in the United States… Continue reading
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Cuba News Links 11-14 August 2021
14 August 2021 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back US imposes more sanctions on crippled Cuba, this time on interior ministry officials and military unit https://www.rt.com/news/531985-usa-new-sanctions-cuba/ Cuba, China, Latin America and the World https://www.globalresearch.ca/cuba-china-latin-america-world/5752875 Continue reading
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Cuba’s US-Backed Pop-Culture Dissidents
Over the past decade, Washington has spent millions to cultivate anti-government rappers, rock musicians, artists, and journalists in Cuba, Max Blumenthal reports. Continue reading
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