Cuba
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NSA: Cuba and The U.S.: ‘Intimate Diplomacy’
As Castro Era Ends, the National Security Archive posts Records on Back Channel Efforts toward Rapprochement by Pioneering Journalist Lisa Howard Continue reading
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Project Life: Cuba’s action plan prepares for climate change
As an island nation, Cuba is particularly vulnerable to climate change. Project Life (Tarea Vida), now being implemented across the country, aims to increase the country’s resilience and minimize future damage Continue reading
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A “Harsh and Terrible … Solution”: Fidel Castro’s Armageddon Letter to Nikita Khrushchev
Homing in on the Cuban perspective, Dark Beyond Darkness aims to fill a persistent gap in the history – the general dismissal of Cuba’s stake – that not only skewed our understanding of the event for years but helped make the crisis so perilous in the first place. Continue reading
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Cuba: Documents Chart History of Secret Communications
With the approach of the 3rd anniversary of “17-D”—the iconic date of December 17, 2014, when President Barack Obama and President Raul Castro made public a historic breakthrough in U.S.-Cuba relations—the National Security Archive today announced the publication of a major collection of declassified records on the history of talks between the two nations. Continue reading
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Video: Homegrown Terror: JFK Docs Show US Considered Attacks at Home to Blame on Cuba
The new round of documents on the Kennedy assassination shed light on the long-running U.S. government effort to overthrow Fidel Castro — including discussions to stage attacks on U.S. soil and blame Cuba Continue reading
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The Cuban Missile Crisis at 55: U.S. Planned for Military Occupation of Cuba
The U.S. military drew up plans to occupy Cuba and establish a temporary government headed by a U.S. “commander and military governor” during the 1962 missile crisis, according to the recently declassified “Military Government Proclamation No. 1” posted today by the National Security Archive at The George Washington University. Continue reading
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Facing Irma in Cuba: “¡Saldremos adelante!” (“We Can Only Move Forward!”) By Arnold August
25 September 2017 — Global Research “Saldremos adelante!” (“We can only move forward!”). This is what a colleague exclaimed during one of my several phone calls to Havana in the days after Irma unleashed its wrath on the capital. Others, when asked how they, their families, colleagues and neighbours were faring, declared in a similar manner,… Continue reading
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Media: ‘Castro Was a Living Reminder of the Limits of American Power’
Janine Jackson: Fidel Castro, who died November 25 at age 90, will be remembered as someone whose work changed, not just Cuba, but the wider world. With US media ringing with denunciation—with some left over to denunciate those who aren’t denunciating enough—there’s little oxygen left for discussion of that work, and what it meant and… Continue reading
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Fidel Castro Ruz. His Legacy Will Live Forever: Selected Articles
29 November 2016 — Global Research Fidel Castro Ruz. His Legacy Will Live Forever By Fidel Castro Ruz and Prof Michel Chossudovsky, November 26 2016 Fidel Castro Ruz, leader of the Cuban Revolution has passed. The Cuban Revolution constitutes a fundamental landmark in the history of humanity, which challenges the legitimacy of global capitalism. In all major regions of… Continue reading
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NSA: CIA Releases Controversial Bay of Pigs History
The CIA today released the long-contested Volume V of its official history of the Bay of Pigs invasion, which it had successfully concealed until now by claiming that it was a “draft” and could be withheld from the public under the FOIA’s “deliberative process” privilege. The National Security Archive fought the agency for years in… Continue reading
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NSA: Bombing of Cuban Jetliner 40 Years Later
On the 40th anniversary of the first and only mid-air bombing of a civilian airliner in the Western Hemisphere, the National Security Archive today called on the Obama Administration to declassify all remaining intelligence records on Luis Posada Carriles to shed light on his activities, provide historical evidence for his victims, and make a gesture… Continue reading
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National Security Archive: Obama’s Back Channel to Cuba: Events Leading to Historic Breakthrough Revealed in Updated Book
18 December 2015 — National Security Archive Obama’s Back Channel to Cuba: Events Leading to Historic Breakthrough Revealed in Updated Book Award-winning Back Channel to Cuba Published in Spanish National Security Archive News Alert Edited by Peter Kornbluh For more information, contact: Peter Kornbluh 202/994-7000, peter.kornbluh@gmail.com Washington, DC, December 18, 2015 – On the first… Continue reading
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National Security Archive: OBAMA’S SECRET DIPLOMACY WITH CUBA
On the eve of Secretary of State John Kerry’s historic trip to Havana tomorrow to raise the American flag over the newly reopened U.S. Embassy, the National Security Archive today distributed a ground-breaking article revealing key details of the behind-the-scenes political operations and secret negotiations that have led to the normalization of diplomatic relations. Continue reading
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KISSINGER CONSIDERED ATTACK ON CUBA FOLLOWING ANGOLA INCURSION
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger ordered a series of secret contingency plans that included airstrikes and mining of Cuban harbors in the aftermath of Fidel Castro’s decision to send Cuban forces into Angola in late 1975, according to declassified documents made public today for the first time. Continue reading
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Covert Diplomacy to Normalize Relations With Cuba: A Historic Press Conference at the Pierre
In July 1975, Henry Kissinger sent two of his deputies to meet with representatives of Fidel Castro at the Pierre Hotel in New York City. It was there ”in room 727” that the historic first secret talks between Washington and Havana to normalize relations were held. But they would not be the last… Continue reading
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Video: Los Van Van!
Juan Formell, who died Thursday, May 1, in Havana, was one of the most internationally recognized Cubans of his time, and an artist whose music transcended boundaries: national, generational, and political. Continue reading
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Social Media and the Destabilization of Cuba: USAID’s Secret “Cuban Twitter” Intended to Stir Unrest By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Reported by the Associated Press, Washington has created a “Cuban Twitter” with a view to creating social unrest. The ultimate objective of this and other initiatives is to demonize and weaken the Cuban Communist government. This program should be seen as part of Washington’s Worldwide actions to implement regime change in countries which do not… Continue reading
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Mandela and Cuba: another memory hole By Alex Doherty
Recognition of the role of Cuba in aiding the ANC whilst the western powers backed apartheid is hardly serviceable in maintaining the conventional Cold War narrative. Hence the media’s impressive avoidance of the context of the Castro-Obama handshake and its significance. Continue reading
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Video: The Secret History of How Cuba Helped End Apartheid in South Africa
As the world focuses on Tuesday’s historic handshake between President Obama and Cuban President Raúl Castro, we look back at the pivotal role Cuba played in ending apartheid and why Castro was one of only five world leaders invited to speak at Nelson Mandela’s memorial. In the words of Mandela, the Cubans ‘destroyed the myth… Continue reading
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