*Por: Vicente Morín Aguado La historia republicana de nuestro país muestra un hilo conductor, a veces velado, a veces revelado, entre la criatura en crecimiento llamada revolución y su única madre posible, la Unión Soviética. Tal revolución resultó ser una permuta forzada del sueño martiano por la pesadilla leninista. No había que ser un gran …
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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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*Por: Vicente Morín Aguado Al hablar durante los actos conmemorativos por los 60 años de relaciones diplomáticas entre ambos países, el embajador cubano en Beijing tuvo un raro arrebato de honestidad al declarar que “Cuba ha acumulado muchas primeras veces en su relación histórica con China.” Dado que la última arrancada va en franco declive, cabe preguntarse: …
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 …
El Instituto de Estudios Cubanos se honra en publicar el artículo del periodista Héctor Carbonell “Periodismo oficial y Periodismo libre” ganador del Premio Nacional del Colegio de Periodistas de Cuba (exilio) 2020. Cuando hablamos de labor periodística tenemos que tener en cuenta el ambiente en el cual debe desarrollarse. Yo percibo tres entornos muy diferentes a …
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 …
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 …
Hoy 16 de diciembre, 2020 se cumplen 59 años de su muerte. Nació el 31 de enero de 1939. Estudió en el Colegio Baldor donde se graduó de bachiller en 1958. Ese año se incorpora a la Agrupación Católica Universitaria y a la Congregación de la Virgen. En 1960 matricula en la Escuela de Arquitectura …
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In an interview during the presidential campaign, V.P. Joe Biden was asked about his Cuba policy if elected President. He responded that he would follow the Obama policy. Did Mr. Biden mean that he would offer General Raúl Castro more unilateral concessions with little or nothing in return? The Obama policies failed to secure any …
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