*By Paulina Zelitsky, P.Eng. “Russian support is requested by Latin American countries, where there is a threat of drug-related terrorism and color revolutions,” stated Russian Defense Minister Army General Sergei Shoigu at the Moscow Conference on International Security held in Moscow on June 23-24 of 2021 attended by about 700 delegates from 109 countries, including …
As the current U.S. administration reviews U.S.-Cuba policy and what changes, if any, to make, the following should be considered: Cuba is a failed economy. Not the result of the U.S. embargo but the consequence of failed economic policies. Not unlike the former eastern European economic systems, the Cuban state-controlled system does not produce; does …
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 …
PART II The disillusionment and frustration caused by the 1961 Bay of Pigs failure among anti-Castro forces, both inside and out of Cuba, prevented the growth of significant organized opposition. With little hope for change more than 2 million Cubans migrated from the island mostly to the U.S. With his power consolidated Castro could embark on massive …
PART I In the early months of the revolution, Castro reasserted his independence from the United States but maintained normal relations. During his visit to the United States in April 1959, he turned down tentative offers of aid, but insisted that Cuba stood with the West in the Cold War. He also met with several U.S. …
Convinced that he could not win the presidential elections scheduled for June 1952, General Fulgencio Batista overthrew President Carlos Prío’s regime in a bloodless and masterfully executed coup d’état on March 10. The coup was almost entirely dependent on army backing and caught the Cuban population, as well as Prío and his followers, by surprise. Batista quickly …
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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 …
Fatalities of the Spanish Army deployed in Cuba [i] At the outbreak of Cuba’s War of Independence, (February 24, 1895), there were 20,197 Spanish soldiers in Cuba. This number proved to be insufficient. In March 1895, the first of 12 reinforcement expeditions made the journey from several Spanish ports to Cuba. In February 1898, the last …
During the Vietnam war Fidel Castro visit Hanoi in 1973, to show his public support to the communist regime fighting the United States but for years cuban military officers were providing secrets operations in that war. The most repulsive was the torturing of American POW’s. Between July 1967 and August 1968, almost daily, Cuban captain …
