Cuban Studies Institute

Although, like similar organizations in other Communist countries the OPJM was inspired by, and in some of its superficial features derived from, the  Boy Scouts, its primary goal is to train […]

During the first United States intervention, the North American Trust Company of New York acted in Cuba as the government’s fiscal agent.  In July 1901, these Cuban operations became the Banco

The Agricultural and Industrial Development Bank was set up in December 1950 with a capital of $10,000,000 as an autonomous state institution to create and maintain the necessary financial facilities

Magazines have been important sources of information and entertainment for the general population in Cuba since the 1830s with (e.g..) the Revista Bimestre Cubana.  The repressive administration of Miguel Tacón was

From 1956 the Escambray Mountains were the focal point for several guerrilla groups.  Early in 1958 the Directorio Revolucionario launched a guerrilla campaign in the Sierra del Escambray against Batista independent of that

A December 1955 offshoot of the Federación Estudiantil Universitaria (FEU), the Revolutionary Directorate promoted an insurrectionary response to Batista’s repression, and established contact with other opponents of the regime, including Fidel Castro  Its