GIVE CUBAN OPPOSITION WEAPONS AND MILITARY TRAINING For the first time in 60 years, there is evidence of growing opposition in Cuba against the legacy regime of the Castro era. Cubans have abandoned the policy of waiting for the regime to provide change “from above.” They now are seeking change “from below.” The nationwide popular …
Por: Vicente Morín Aguado PROLOGO. Este 29 de septiembre, Yunior García Olivera, dramaturgo y artista cubano, líder visible del proyecto mediático opositor Archipiélago, publicó en la página de igual nombre del grupo: “La marcha cívica por el cambio, convocada para el 20 de noviembre, es un derecho legítimo que debe ser conquistado. En más de …
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* Staff Report Although President Barack Obama removed Cuba in 2015 from the U.S. State Department list of countries supporting terrorism, and President Trump included it again in 2020, the Cuban regime continues to collaborate with terrorist groups and countries, and harbors U.S., Spanish, and Colombian terrorists in the island. Iran, Cuba, and Venezuela have …
During the first few years of Batista’s regime, political parties exerted considerable influence in Cuba. The Ortodoxos were particularly popular and influential because of the party’s uncompromising attitude toward Batista, the mystique of its martyred leader, Eduardo Chibás (1951), and the fact that its more prominent members included several professors at the University of Havana. The National …
*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. …
