On November 27th, 1871, the most pitiless act of injustice during the Wars of Cuban Independence took place: the execution of eight young Cubans, all medical students at the University of Havana. They were condemned without evidence, charged with desecrating the tomb of the editor of a newspaper published by the paramilitary Corps of Spanish …
1492 Christopher Columbus discovered and explored Cuba. 1508 Sebastián de Ocampo circumnavigated and explored the island. 1511 Diego Velázquez conquered the native peoples and established various settlements. 1519 Havana was relocated from its original site on the Gulf of Batabanó to its present location on the north coast. 1523 Blacks were brought from Africa to work the …
1902 The Republic was proclaimed and U.S. intervention ended. 1903 U.S.-Cuban Treaty signed whereby the United States obtained Guantanamo base. 1905 President Estrada Palma obtained a second term by defeating liberal candidate Jose Miguel Gomez. 1906 Guerrita de Agosto, a Liberal Party uprising, hastened U.S. intervention. 1906-09 Second U.S. intervention. 1908 Liberal candidate Jose Miguel Gomez won election to a …
1959 Fidel Castro assumed command and began consolidation of power. Castro visited Caracas, the United States, Canada, and Buenos Aires. First Agrarian Reform Law promulgated. Castro became prime minister and replaced Manuel Urrutia with his hand-picked candidate, Osvaldo Dorticós. Major Camilo Cienfuegos died in a plane crash. Major Huber Matos sentenced to twenty years in …
La escena doméstica Los limitados cambios económicos introducidos por el general Raúl Castro en Cuba animaron a algunos observadores a proclamar el fin del comunismo y el desmantelamiento del sistema totalitario en la isla. A pesar de las declaraciones de Raúl Castro de que no fue elegido para restaurar el capitalismo, estos observadores insisten en …
Con la economía comunista en ruinas y el devastador impacto del huracán Irma, la poderosa cúpula militar se prepara para implementar, en cuatro meses, la salida del general Raúl Castro de la presidencia del Consejo de Estado y de Ministros. Raúl Castro permanecerá como Primer Secretario del Partido Comunista, que es la autoridad suprema del …
La cuenta regresiva comenzó. En febrero del 2018, el General Raúl Castro dejará la presidencia del Consejo de Estado y de Ministros que pasará a ocupar el Primer Vicepresidente Miguel Díaz-Canel, Ingeniero electrónico, Teniente Coronel retirado de la FAR y destacado camarada del Partido Comunista Cubano (PCC). Será la tercera vez que un miembro de …
Miguel Díaz-Canel, Camarada del “Socialismo Irreversible” Read More »
Cuba and sugar have been tied inseparable in history. There is an old saying that synthetizes this relationship “Sin azúcar no hay país.” The Cuban economy was radically dependent of the sugar price market fluctuations with profound implications for Cubans’ financial wellbeing. This close relationship was acutely enhanced by the boom and bust market volatility …
This Day in Cuban History – November 1920. Collapse of the Dance of the Millions Read More »
By: Nicolas J. Gutierrez, Jr. * I. Introduction. The Trump Administration’s recent unprecedented hyper-shortened suspension of the Title III right-of-action provision of the Cuban Liberty & Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996 (more commonly referred to as the Helms-Burton law) has sent shock waves of both elation and concern among those that typically follow these …
Helms-Burton’s Title III: Impact of Inching Towards Implementation Read More »
“Che” Guevara (Ernesto Guevara de la Serna y Lynch, 1928-1967). Argentine revolutionary, Cuba’s former minister of industries, guerrilla theoretician, and Fidel Castro’s trusted adviser. Born on June 14 in Rosario, Argentina, of Spanish and Irish descent, he suffered from asthma, spending his childhood in a mountain town near Rosario. At an early age he read …
This Day In Cuban History – October 9 1967. “Che” Guevara is executed in Bolivia Read More »
