Without your help, and without the help of the New York Times, the revolution in Cuba would never have been.” … In fact the Castro regime’s panic is amply warranted: “Obama’s trip is misguided for the flawed Cuba policy it represents,” wrote … by “family visitors” and “people-to-people” travelers from the U.S. to Cuba.…
He gives the example of the Gujaratis expelled from Uganda and the Cubans fleeing Cuba. … By losing their most productive people, both Uganda and Cuba became economic basket cases.…
The Castro dynasty, which has ruled Cuba for decades, will finally come to an end this week - at least in terms of titles. … Fidel Castro was the prime minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and then president from 1976 to 2008. … "Castro will remain first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, a member of the National Assembly and, even if he is no longer…
until that day arrives, here it is: No, the invasion was not “doomed” from the beginning because of Castro’s “popular support” in Cuba—as … But these men (representing every race and social class in Cuba) were in no mood to emulate Rommel’s crack Afrika Corps by retreating…
In 1962, the Soviet Union placed nuclear missiles in Cuba and Kennedy drew a line in the sand in saying that Soviet nuclear missiles … would not remain in Cuba. … He put a blockade 800 miles off the coast of Cuba and later reduced it to 500 miles to give the Soviet Union more time to consider…
along with New Yorker Magazine staff writer Jon Lee Anderson, who wrote his biography of Che Guevara while living in totalitarian Cuba … Che drummed it into us,” recalls Cuban guerrilla Dariel Alarcon, who indeed fought to his last bullet in Bolivia, escaped back to Cuba … late mother-in-law) was Maria Marta Harnecker Cerda, a Chilean Communist who worked for Salvador Allende and scurried to Stalinist Cuba…
He simply knew as a result he'd be running Cuba like his personal ranch, with the (quickly unarmed) Cuban people as his sheep and cattle … and that “the Mob ran pre-Castro Cuba!” …
Then thanks largely to President Obama’s “rapprochement” with those Cuban “hipsters,” Stalinist Cuba became the absolute “coolest” … The notion of Castro’s Cuba as a stiflingly Stalinist nation never quite caught on among the “enlightened.” … In his famous speech, Che Guevara even vowed “to make individualism disappear from Cuba!…
Chesimard and all other individuals who have fled the United States from political persecution and received political asylum in Cuba … She eluded capture for several years until 1986 when she made her way to Cuba. There she was granted political asylum. … Along with convicted cop-killer Chesimard, Cuba harbors convicted cop-killer Charlie Hill, along with Victor Gerena, responsible for…
“Cuba is "prepared" for the possibility of Donald Trump's reelection and the continuation of crushing U.S. sanctions against the island … mogul Donald Trump to sandbag other hotel companies–so that Trump’s company can later fill Cuba with Trump hotels. … against Trump’s Cuba policy of restricting tourism to Cuba—this very CNN “reporter” has an American wife who until recently owned…
“Cuba is "prepared" for the possibility of Donald Trump's reelection and the continuation of crushing US sanctions against the island … as CNN’s “reporters” play every time they file a “story” from Cuba.) … against Trump’s Cuba policy of restricting tourism to Cuba—this very CNN “reporter” has an American wife who until recently owned…
Fortunately, Sanders added, "Not to say Fidel Castro or Cuba are perfect." No, they are not perfect. … Even now in Cuba, most people try to live on less than $2 a day. … For most people in Nicaragua, Cuba and other centrally planned economies, life is hell.…
