Apparently highly favorable conditions accompanied Cuba’s emergence into independence on May 20, 1902. There were no major social or political problems similar to the ones other Latin American nations had experienced after their break with Spain. There was no large unassimilated Indian population and although blacks represented a significant proportion of the total populating there …
José Julián Martí y Pérez (1853-1895) Cuba’s greatest hero and most influential writer. Revolutionary, poet, journalist, and the principal organizer of the Independence War of 1895-1898, he was the apostle of Cuba’s independence. Born in Havana, January 28, of a Valencian father and “isleño” mother, he spent his early years as an eager student. His environment and teachers …
On January 24, at 11:00 in the morning, the cruisers USS Maine steam into Havana entering the narrow channel under the venerable watch of the Morro Castle and anchored in the assigned buoy number 5 close to the Spanish cruiser Alfonso XII and Ward Line Steamer City of Washington. Secretary of the navy Richard Day …
During the First World War, on December 24 and 25, 1914, an unusual and spontaneous event occurred between German and British soldiers who celebrated Christmas Eve and Christmas between the trenches that separated them. This action is known as “The Christmas truce” and it spread to various sectors of the battle front. At the beginning of …
El 31 de julio es el día de San Ignacio de Loyola, fundador de la Compañía de Jesús, que marca la muerte de quien fue Apóstol de los Evangelios, de la piedad, y el sacrificio en defensa de la fe. San Ignacio es patrono y maestro de los Ejercicios Espirituales concebidos para fortalecer la voluntad, …
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By Pedro Roig As a historian and attorney this outline on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, searches into the essential issue of what the CIA and the FBI knew about Lee Harvey Oswald’s visits to the Cuban consulate in Mexico City prior to Kennedy’s assassination, the role of comandante Rolando Cubela in Kennedy’s plot …
*By Pedro Roig The Cuban Missile Crisis was the most dramatic event of the Cold War. Fifty-seven years ago, the U.S. and the Soviet Union stood on the threshold of a nuclear holocaust. The possible magnitude of the worldwide destruction can scarcely be overstated. The strategic concept for deploying nuclear missiles in Cuba was presented …
Entre los más brutales crímenes del régimen castrista está el cruel asesinato de prisioneros de la Brigada 2506, que murieron asfixiados en la rastra de la muerte Sin el apoyo aéreo prometido, los bravos combatientes pelearon por tres días de tenacidad y coraje. La lucha fue especialmente cruenta en la rotonda de Palpite, en San …
In preparation for the transfer of the Cuban presidency from General Raul Castro to Coronel Miguel Diaz-Canel on April. 19, the Cuban Communist Party-Political Bureau held its V Plenary meeting. · Raul Castro will remain as Secretary General of the Party and head of its Politburo, until 2021, the maximum authority according to Cuba’s Constitution. …
